November 2 -- PGA Tour bad boy Anthony Kim lost in the finals of the World Match Play Championship golf event, but that was hardly the must-see contest of last week’s tournament.
The real drama played out on Spain’s Finca Cortesin Golf Club in Saturday’s Act II of the Kim vs. Robert Allenby soap opera. After their recent war of words, Kim’s 5-and-4 drubbing of Allenby in their semi-finals grudge match gives Kim a 2-0 advantage in the unlikely duo’s newly heated rivalry.
You may recall (how could you miss it?) that Allenby accused Kim of early-morning drunken revelry before their much-ballyhooed Presidents Cup singles match a few weeks back. For the record, Kim kicked Allenby’s butt in that competition, 5 and 3.
But Kim drinking until all hours? No way! What 24-year-old guy would go out boozing and carousing? Never been done in the history of the world by anyone before Kim. Afer all, the American is “not exactly a practicing monk and everyone knows it,” as Golf Magazine’s Cameron Morfit points out in this week’s PGA Tour Confidential.
Advantage, Kim. Whatever he did, does, or doesn’t do before he tees it up, Kim’s approach to head-to-head match play seems to work far better than Allenby’s. As Golf.com’s Ryan Reiterman points out, Allenby must have eschewed Kim’s post-Presidents Cup advice to put in a bit more time on the practice range. Either that, or the Australian’s fat chips and missed putts were the result of a bad case of the “Noonan”s.
Of course, the Kim-Allenby rivalry may be nothing more than a media fantasy during the dwindling days of the 2009 golf season. Certainly, the two golfers were having none of it.
“That’s not something I really want to go into, but I have talked to Robert,” Kim told Golfweek. “What’s done is done and it’s in the past now.”
Allenby, for his part, chose the shopworn, I-was-quoted-out-of-context route. “I’ve apologized for the way it’s come out,” he said to Golfweek. “It’s a dead issue in both Anthony and my books. I’m not answering any more questions about it.”
Go fish. Oh, yeah. Englishman Ross Fisher beat Kim, 4 and 3, to win the World Match Play Championship. Allenby, for his part, bested Spain’s Angel Cabrera on the 19th hole in the consolation match. The 39-year-old Aussie carded his first career hole-in-one on the 230-yard, par-3 sixth hole.
The Boston Red Sox are long gone from post-season play and with the Phillies one loss away from another Bronx Bombers World Series championship, all Sox fans can do is tip our caps and call the Yankees our daddy. But you can read all about Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz’s upcoming trip to Trump National Golf Club to marry model Lindsay Clubine.
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