Thirty- five years and 11 months ago at this hour, I was on my way back to the Louisiana Superdome for the third day of the 1988 Republican National Convention.
When you grow up in a small town or spend considerable time in a small town living and breathing as part of the community, you become emotionally invested.
Even in my kindest recollection, Nancy Messick was a strange girl. She could have played linebacker for the Chicago Bears, which pretty well nixed her success in beauty pageants and sorority teas.
The top 50 in the FedEx Cup last year were guaranteed entry into all the PGA Tour signature events with $20 million purses and elevated points. That was the easier route. But that doesn’t make it easy. Just ask Jordan Spieth. He’s at the John Deere Classic this week for the first time in a decade because he has fallen to No. 59 in the FedEx Cup. Rickie Fowler was in the top 50 last year. Now he’s at No. 93. There are only five tournament weeks left on the schedule for the top 70 to make the postseason.