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The Cool and Uncool in Sports Fashion

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

First the uncool new hairstyle of Marat Safin:

I dread what the Anti Foolish Haircut Association would say on this. And I have not shown pictures of the Safin hair with the hair band yet from his recent Davis Cup match.

Okay here it is:

Now that I have completely spoiled your mood, here is Sergio Garcia and his cool orange pants from Day 1 at Augusta:


Images courtesy Eurosport, Davis Cup and Golf365 respectively.

First in over 50 years

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Augusta Masters main draw sees no Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer for the first time in over 50 years. The tournament will be off a bit of the usual sheen because of this despite them competing in the par-three contest which precedes the actual tournament. It is always a great site to see Nicklaus and Palmer compete at Augusta even though they do not make the cut for the last two days.

The crowd cheering, the old men still showing sparks of brilliance – has been a pleasure to watch.

Update: Cam Cole from National Post has written on his memories of Jack Nicklaus at Augusta in a piece titled One for the Ages which is quite a good read.

Atwal shows promise for the future

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Arjun Atwal’s performed impressively at the Buick Invitational. He again showed improvement is required in finishing off tournaments. That will hopefully improve in the future. The Telegraph, Calcutta, reports:

Arjun Atwal came close to winning his maiden PGA Tour title, but in the end finished tied fourth after missing three close putts in the last three holes of the $ 5.4 million Buick Invitational at the Torrey Pines.Atwal (71) missed a four-footer on the closing 18th and was shut out of the three-way play-off which was won by Tiger Woods, who himself birdied the 18th to get into extra time.