One Stroke Over the Cut

Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”  

Another word coined by Shakespeare

However, there is nothing foolish about the consistency recently demonstrated by PGA Tour golfer Gary Woodland. Woodland has now made 17 consecutive cuts on the PGA tour, the leader in this category.  On the other hand, no PGA Tour golfers with as many cuts made on last year’s 2017--2018 Tour season as Woodland (21), save for Nick Watney (1), C,.T. Pan (2) and Zach Johnson (2) had fewer top ten finishes than Woodland (3).  Woodland did win one tournament last season, but in his career he has held a  54-hole lead or co-lead in stroke-play event on the PGA Tour seven times, including last week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions  but he could not close out any of those tournaments with a victory.  (It may not be as easy as it looks to close out after a 54-hole lead.  Golf.com analyzed 42 stroke play events in the 2016-17 season.  Golf.com determined that 51 different players held at least a share of the 54-hole lead in those 42 tournaments.  However, only 27% of those players (14) held  on to win the tournament.)

Hopefully Woodland will add to his consecutive cut streak as the 2018-2019 Tour season progresses.  However, he has miles to go to catch the all-time consecutive cut leader (no surprise, it’s Tiger Woods with 142 consecutive cuts made!  In fact, Woodland has a long way to go to even crawl into the top six (Tom Kite is ranked sixth with 53 consecutive cuts made.) Regardless of whether Woodland breaks  his other streak, and wins a tournament after holding a 54-hole lead, he most likely will not be heard singing the following sad refrain very often this season.

ONE STROKE OVER THE CUT

Original song:  One Toke Over The Line

Songwriters: Michael Brewer / Tom Shipley

One Toke Over The Line Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

One stroke over the cut sweet Jesus
One stroke over the cut
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

Awaitin' for the pilot flying home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the pilot’s  on time
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

Whoooo does golf love, I hope it's me
I've bin a struglin', as you can plainly see
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain missing the cut did
If I should choose to make this  part of my game surely fix my head

One stroke over the cut sweet Jesus
One stroke over the cut
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

Awaitin' for the pilot flying home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the pilot’s  on time
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

I hit the ball a country mile,
But it flies off course and I don’t smile

I played all the shots and loved myself a few
Taken by surprise all the rough I've been through
I ended over par  and now I'm
One toke over the line sweet Jesus

One stroke over the cut sweet Jesus
One stroke over the cut
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

Awaitin' for the pilot flying home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the pilot’s  on time
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

I don’t want  to be
One stroke over the cut sweet Jesus
One stroke over the cut
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

Awaitin' for the pilot flying home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the pilot’s  on time
Sittin' in my Lear on a red-hot tarmac
One stroke over the cut

Songwriters: Michael Brewer / Tom Shipley

One Toke over the Line lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

                                   

AMDG

 

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