Today's final pairing at Harding Park offers a tidy snapshot of life on the Champions Tour,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. where golfers chat about creaky backs as often as they recount birdies and bogeys.
Jay Haas braces for a severe back spasm almost annually, pain so sharp it practically takes his breath away. This year's edition arrived Thursday, intensified Friday and subsided long enough Saturday - with the help of modern medicine - for Haas, walking slowly and swinging easily, to shoot 67.
Jay Don Blake curtailed his PGA Tour career because of back problems. He couldn't practice as long as he wanted, or play as well as he wanted, so he disappeared at age 46, after the 2004 season. Blake rehabilitated his back and resurfaced on the Champions Tour in '09.
Now,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . after shooting 66 on Saturday, he will begin today's final round of the Schwab Cup Championship with a two-shot lead over Haas, Michael Allen and David Frost. Loren Roberts lingers another stroke back after his third-round 65.
Haas will need to conquer more than Harding's thick rough and challenging greens. The golf swing can be unforgiving on bad backs, given the repetitive twisting motion - as Blake understands all too well.
"I know what the pain feels like," Blake said of Haas' injury. "It's no fun."
Haas barely resembled himself at times during the closing moments of Friday's second round. He momentarily worried the pain might worsen and force him to withdraw, but he took a pill he once used for kidney stones and received treatment in the tour's fitness trailer.
Then, ever so carefully,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, he made his way around Harding on a cool, gray Saturday - and finished with birdies on Nos. 17 and 18 to improbably surge back into contention.we supply all kinds of oil painting supplies,
"My back got a little better as the day went on, but it's obviously not 100 percent," Haas, 57, said. "I was just trying to put one foot in front of the other. It doesn't seem to hurt when I swing. ... I'm surprised I played well. I hung in there and swung easy."
If Haas' back does not protest too loudly, he owns a distinct advantage in today's final round - he has proved he knows how to win at the game's highest levels. Haas won nine times on the PGA Tour and has won 15 tournaments on the Champions Tour, so Sunday tension will not faze him.
Frost brings similar credentials, with 10 PGA Tour wins on his resume (and one Champions Tour triumph).
That's not the case with Blake and Allen, longtime journeymen who carved out nice tour careers while seldom cradling a trophy. Blake won one tournament in 18 years on the PGA Tour; Allen didn't win at all in 14-plus seasons on the big tour.
So if Blake finds himself in the hunt coming down the stretch today, he does not have a Haas-like reservoir of memories to draw upon. Blake won a Champions Tour event in Korea in September, his first victory of any kind in 20 years.
"That's given me quite a bit of confidence - I feel like I belong out here and can win," said Blake, 53, who was born and still lives in St.I have never solved a Rubik's plastic card . George, Utah. "... I think a lot of us want it so bad, and try so hard, we probably get in our own way sometimes."
No matter how today's final round sorts itself out, Harding Park is proving a stout test. Last year's tournament did not provide much of a barometer, given rain-soaked fairways and "lift, clean and place" rules all four days.
John Cook won at 17-under-par, one year after he blitzed through Sonoma Golf Club at 22-under.
Blake will enter play today at 8-under, so this year's best score will not even remotely compare.
Nick Price, once the world's No. 1 player, pointed to "sticky" rough, firm greens and the notoriously heavy San Francisco air as keeping scores high.
Jay Haas braces for a severe back spasm almost annually, pain so sharp it practically takes his breath away. This year's edition arrived Thursday, intensified Friday and subsided long enough Saturday - with the help of modern medicine - for Haas, walking slowly and swinging easily, to shoot 67.
Jay Don Blake curtailed his PGA Tour career because of back problems. He couldn't practice as long as he wanted, or play as well as he wanted, so he disappeared at age 46, after the 2004 season. Blake rehabilitated his back and resurfaced on the Champions Tour in '09.
Now,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . after shooting 66 on Saturday, he will begin today's final round of the Schwab Cup Championship with a two-shot lead over Haas, Michael Allen and David Frost. Loren Roberts lingers another stroke back after his third-round 65.
Haas will need to conquer more than Harding's thick rough and challenging greens. The golf swing can be unforgiving on bad backs, given the repetitive twisting motion - as Blake understands all too well.
"I know what the pain feels like," Blake said of Haas' injury. "It's no fun."
Haas barely resembled himself at times during the closing moments of Friday's second round. He momentarily worried the pain might worsen and force him to withdraw, but he took a pill he once used for kidney stones and received treatment in the tour's fitness trailer.
Then, ever so carefully,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, he made his way around Harding on a cool, gray Saturday - and finished with birdies on Nos. 17 and 18 to improbably surge back into contention.we supply all kinds of oil painting supplies,
"My back got a little better as the day went on, but it's obviously not 100 percent," Haas, 57, said. "I was just trying to put one foot in front of the other. It doesn't seem to hurt when I swing. ... I'm surprised I played well. I hung in there and swung easy."
If Haas' back does not protest too loudly, he owns a distinct advantage in today's final round - he has proved he knows how to win at the game's highest levels. Haas won nine times on the PGA Tour and has won 15 tournaments on the Champions Tour, so Sunday tension will not faze him.
Frost brings similar credentials, with 10 PGA Tour wins on his resume (and one Champions Tour triumph).
That's not the case with Blake and Allen, longtime journeymen who carved out nice tour careers while seldom cradling a trophy. Blake won one tournament in 18 years on the PGA Tour; Allen didn't win at all in 14-plus seasons on the big tour.
So if Blake finds himself in the hunt coming down the stretch today, he does not have a Haas-like reservoir of memories to draw upon. Blake won a Champions Tour event in Korea in September, his first victory of any kind in 20 years.
"That's given me quite a bit of confidence - I feel like I belong out here and can win," said Blake, 53, who was born and still lives in St.I have never solved a Rubik's plastic card . George, Utah. "... I think a lot of us want it so bad, and try so hard, we probably get in our own way sometimes."
No matter how today's final round sorts itself out, Harding Park is proving a stout test. Last year's tournament did not provide much of a barometer, given rain-soaked fairways and "lift, clean and place" rules all four days.
John Cook won at 17-under-par, one year after he blitzed through Sonoma Golf Club at 22-under.
Blake will enter play today at 8-under, so this year's best score will not even remotely compare.
Nick Price, once the world's No. 1 player, pointed to "sticky" rough, firm greens and the notoriously heavy San Francisco air as keeping scores high.
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