Oh Henry!

Golf Quiz: 1) Who are the last three to win back-to-back U.S. Open titles? 2) Who are the only three to have successfully defended more than one major? 3) 21 players have shot 63 in a men’s major championship, the low. Greg Norman and Vijay Singh are the only two to do it twice. All 63s have been shot since 1973, the year Johnny Miller first accomplished the feat at Oakmont in the Open. Identify the two with the following initials who have also gone low, M.H. and J.M. Answers below.

***Bethpage….to see a neat video of the course, and the head pro at the place I play out of, go to nydailynews.com, click on sports, then "News takes you back to the Black."  There\’s a 7-minute video that gives you a sense of the terrain, especially if you aren\’t from the area.

The Los Angeles Lakers won their 15th NBA title, Phil Jackson, his record 10th as coach (six with the Bulls), and Kobe Bryant, the MVP of the series, his 4th and first without Shaq.  Is Kobe as good as M.J.?  Almost.

Henry Hudson…doomed explorer 

So I have this terrific book, “Historical Atlas of exploration, 1492-1600,” that I don’t peruse enough, but I thought, hey, it’s the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Hudson River, a rather important body of water in these parts. The New York Times had a recent editorial and when I saw the title I thought this will be a good source for honoring Henry, but instead it was all about the environmental issues involving the river. [I should have known.] 

Anyway, I excitedly opened the book and lo and behold, Henry Hudson only warranted one small paragraph, but I did learn he met an untimely end, which is the way most of these guys finished up. 

So I Googled “Henry Hudson Explorer” and the following is from a May 1996 issue of “Half Moon Press” out of the town of Westchester, New York… “Who was Henry Hudson Anyway? And What Happened to Him?” 

I don’t see an actual author to credit, for which I apologize, but… 

“Henry Hudson was an Englishman, possibly the grandson of a London alderman who helped found a trading organization, the Muscovy Company…. 

“Hudson (was) commissioned by Muscovy in 1607 to find a quick way from England to the ‘islands of spicery.’ He failed in that attempt, and again in 1608 – each time foiled by ice floes as he attempted to find a fast northerly passage to ‘the east.’ 

“In 1609 the Dutch East India Company, which had a monopoly on trade with the Orient [Ed. This is before the World Trade Organization] and which wanted to shorten the lengthy and expensive voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, hired Hudson to renew the attempt on its behalf. [Ed. After two failures, it’s pretty clear Hudson was a good ass-kisser. I mean I would have been like, “Mr. Hudson, explain to me just why it is that I’m supposed to hire you?” Then I’d cock one eye and give him a look like, ‘so don’t waste my time.’ But I digress….] They provided him with an 80-ton ship, the ‘Half Moon,’ and a crew of 20 – a combination of Dutch and English sailors. 

“The Half Moon sailed out of Amsterdam on April 4 or 6, and after a difficult journey along the coast of Norway [Ed. They’re going the wrong way! Wrong Way Henry, I would have called him…] and as far east as the bleak coast of Novaya Zemlya [Ed. haven’t been there], turned west [finally!] and headed for warmer climes. Reports claim that Hudson had a trying time with the crew, which threatened to mutiny, but persuaded them to help seek the alternative route to the lucrative spices. [Ed. Clearly Henry had ‘the gift.’]” 

Well, the quest led them first to the coast of Maine, where they met Hugh Gorton, of Gorton Fishery fame, who was peddling his frozen product even then to anyone that would listen. Henry, though, already had hardtack onboard, and shoe leather, and wasn’t interested, but his crew did “fish and trade with the Native Americans (while) continuing south to the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. After Hudson decided they weren’t entrances to the passage he was seeking, the Half Moon sailed north to the mouth of the Hudson River in early September,” where he participated in a tall ships extravaganza, no doubt, complete with fireboats shooting off their water cannons.  

Lest you question the accuracy of some of my own history here, recall it was “An Italian, Giovanni da Verranzano, (who) was the first recorded European to discover the mouth of the river when he was sailing for the French in 1524. He wrote, ‘we foundda da very pleasanto siteation amongst dem hills,’ [I’m translating] but did not continue exploring what he called, ‘The River of the Steep Hills’ and the ‘Grand River.’” 

Why Verranzano didn’t go further could be fodder for a Bar Chat in 2024, when I take an exclusive look at the 500th anniversary of this fine fellow’s discovery of the bridge that already bore his name. 

But back to our story on Henry Hudson, “On September 12, 1609, Hudson began his exploration of the river. The first night he anchored off the northern tip of Manhattan. [I assume he went ‘clubbing.’] The next night, after the crew traded for oysters with Native Americans [never buy shellfish from total strangers like this], the ship was near Yonkers. 

“On September 14, Hudson thought he may have found the long-sought passage when he saw the wide Tappan Zee [and all the traffic traversing it…geezuz…] but he later became disappointed when he reached the shallower area near Albany and turned back…. 

“On October 2, as the Half Moon neared Manhattan, some Native Americans became hostile and Hudson ordered guns to be fired at them. Several were killed, and the event was remembered 15 years later when the Dutch came to settle in Manhattan in 1624.” 

Well, kids, the Half Moon made it back to Devonshire, November 7. The Dutch East India Company wasn’t happy with Hudson’s performance and forbid him from leaving England, but the following year, a group of wealthy Londoners, “who still believed there was a faster route to the east, sent Hudson off as captain of the ‘Discovery’ to find a North-West passage. 

“He sailed north, via Iceland [I could have recommended a hot dog stand there if I had known], into the Hudson Strait and from there into Hudson Bay, which also bears his name.” 

But Discovery was trapped in ice and forced to winter there. “During that time the crew quarreled and, finally, as the spring thaw began, they mutinied. [Ed. It’s clear the crew couldn’t handle the fine Canadian lagers that were available in those days.] The ring-leaders, Robert Juet and Henry Greene, set Hudson, his son, and some other men adrift in a small open boat and they were never seen again.” 

[Pause for a moment of silence for Henry Hudson….who for all we know was devoured by a white whale, Moby Dick, later killed by Gregory Peck…Then again there are those who say Moby Dick is still out there, that Peck remains lashed to the leviathan, which makes some of the stories of Peck’s death almost 50 years later also kind of strange, let alone his role in “To Kill A Mockingbird.”] 

Anyway, “Greene and three other mutineers were later killed by Eskimos and Juet died before the Discovery, now captained by Robert Bylot [the ‘t’ is silent], reached England.” 

–Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Penguins for their upset, Game 7 triumph in Detroit. For Pittsburgh it was their first Stanley Cup since 1992 and it came against the same far more experienced team that defeated them in the finals last year.  And not for nothing, but the city of Pittsburgh also has the reigning Super Bowl champs.

—College World Series time…one of these days I have to catch this. [I’m assuming they serve beer at the stadium. Otherwise I’m not going.] 

And the final eight are…Arkansas, Cal State-Fullerton, Virginia, LSU, Arizona State, North Carolina, Southern Mississippi, and Texas 

Last ten CWS champions: 

*Miami’s titles were before it joined the ACC. Incredibly, Wake Forest, 1955, is still the last ACC team to win it all. [And in first-round games this weekend, Virginia and UNC didn’t get off to good starts.] 

—Meet the Mets…Meet the Mets…come on up and greet the Muts 

What a stretch for us Mets fans. Last week started with three games against the rival Phillies. Now recall that after two historic September collapses, with the Phils winning the division both times, Philadelphia’s All-Star stud, Cole Hamels, called the Mets “choke artists” in a radio talk show last winter. I wrote at the time that Mr. Hamels is of course right…my Muts are the biggest choke artists since Mussolini realized he couldn’t carry his share of the load and was hung, thus consigning Italy’s military to decades of ridicule. [Well, what other army do you think of when asked which is the poorest in the world?] 

So the Mets proceeded to choke twice against the Phils last week in blowing late-inning leads, and then on Friday night, at the House that Mariano Built, lost to the Yankees in a way that most of us will remember ‘til our last dying breath. In fact, it probably took six years off our lives. 

Flip Bondy / New York Post 

“For one split second, the ball was in Luis Castillo’s mitt and the Mets were comeback kings of New York. Francisco Rodriguez was still a perfect closer. Joe Girardi was a complete buffoon for pulling Phil Coke in favor of Mariano Rivera during a tie game in the eighth. Alex Rodriguez was a choker yet again, for popping up with the tying run on second base. 

“A-Rod flipped his bat in disgust at home plate, and then somebody, somewhere flipped a switch on the whole game, the whole plot line. There would be no four-game losing streak for the Yanks, no scathing reports on the manager in today’s tabloids. 

“Castillo, drifting back and fighting everything at once – the lights, the crowd noise, his footing, the occasion – let the ball and this moment slip from inside his closed black mitt. The baseball plopped to the ground while it seemed Yankees everywhere were rounding the bases, turning this into one of those crazy, ugly games they will be showing on ‘Yankee Classics’ from now until the next world championship.” 

Mike Vaccaro / New York Post 

“He was stricken, the loneliest man in the Mets’ locker room, the loneliest man in New York City. Every few seconds, Luis Castillo’s head would drop, and his shoulders would sag. He pounded a closed fist against his head once, twice, 10 times. 

“If you listened closely enough, inside the funereal silence of the clubhouse shrouded with equal parts grief and disbelief, you could hear something else, too. 

And understand that this is the same team, just this year, that had an outfielder drop an easy fly that led to a loss for Johan Santana and another game thrown away when Ryan Church forgot to touch third. Plus the other night, our supposed Gold Glover, Carlos Beltran, dropped a crucial fly ball. And our wunderkind outfielder, Fernando Martinez, failed to run out an infield pop in his very first game as a big leaguer. We’re talking he stood at home like he was a fan about to head up the aisle for a hot dog. This franchise is miserable! 

Not that the Yankees are really any better the past few years, but in a poll conducted by the New York Times, Cornell University, and NY1 News, Yankee fans beat out Mets fans by a 34-25 margin. [34% say they do not have an allegiance to either team, and 6% consider themselves fans of both. Wait a second…that adds up to 99%. Must mean the other 1% are either here illegally and didn’t want to answer the question or they are Chinese Uighur terrorists who got lost on their way to Palau and Bermuda.] 

But all the above aside, on Saturday the Mets bounced back and defeated the Yankees 6-2. Castillo faced the media heat, both Friday night and before the game on Saturday, plus had two hits in the win. 

George A. King III / New York Post 

“Decades from now, Mets fans will not have deleted Luis Castillo from their Subway Series catalog of memories. 

“When you blow a game to the Yankees in the ninth by allowing a victory-clinching pop to spill out of your glove, the loudest self-loathing fans in sport won’t forget. 

“[Saturday’s surprise starter] Fernando Nieve? Who knows where he will be in a month, but yesterday the right-handed pitcher was the toast of the Mets’ universe for applying a spicy Bloody Mary to the hair-hurting hangover produced by Castillo’s drop Friday night.” 

Well, both Mets and Yankees fans were looking forward to Sunday’s rubber match, especially with Johan Santana and A.J. Burnett on the mound. But then Santana proceeded to have the worst outing of his career, allowing 9 runs, and over his last six starts he now has an ERA over 6.00. Oh, and we lost 15-0. In the sixth, down 13-0, I decided to full up the gas tank and do some errands. 

Detroit’s Dontrelle Willis is still having major problems; 1-4 since being called up with a 7.49 ERA and 28 walks in 33 innings. Everyone hopes he finally gets his act together, but it’s not looking good. 

San Francisco is 34-28! And pitcher Matt Cain is 9-1. 

The Rockies are at it again. Another 11-game win streak and they’re suddenly 31-32. 

Back to the Phillies, I think Johnny Mac described the team best. They play every game as if they’re in a knife fight. The New York Post’s Mike Vaccaro added: 

PBS’ American Experience is re-running a terrific documentary on Roberto Clemente, Monday. Check your local listings. 

I just have to note a few players at this weekend’s Memphis event, won in impressive fashion by Brian Gay, his second PGA Tour triumph this year and third of his career. 

John Daly made the cut in his first event back following a six-month suspension, though he finished T-59. 

And remember David Gossett? This is a guy who last made a PGA Tour cut in 2006 and made just one Nationwide cut the last two years on that tour. Gossett, who registered his only PGA victory in 2001 at the age of 22, and was thus tabbed a budding superstar (normally the kiss of death), made the cut in Memphis and tied for 67th. It’s a start.  

–Bob S., normally our Director of Shark Attacks, was on dog patrol the other day and passed along this story from the Dayton Daily News, as reported by Nancy Bowman. 

“The five-year-old Great Pyrenees is credited with saving the lives of Moss and her son David, 19, by alerting them to an early morning fire at their Harney Street home in Piqua (Ohio). 

“Smelling smoke and hearing the crackle of fire, mother and son fled the house around 6 a.m. with Jeter following. For an unknown reason, the 120-pound dog went back into the house and perished. 

“Moss was sleeping in a recliner in the living room when Jeter, who usually slept in the bay window nearby, ‘was right up in my face, all over me,’ she said. ‘I tried to shove him away, then I smelled the smoke.’ 

“Moss ran down the hall to wake up David before they fled through the front door. 

“ ‘For some reason, (Jeter) turned around and went back in the house,’ Moss said. 

“She went back in briefly to find him. ‘I couldn’t see him. It was so smoky, I couldn’t find him, so I had to come back out.’ 

“Named after New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, the dog had lived with the family for about three years.” 

The assistant fire chief said the family “got lucky,” because there was no smoke detector, other than Jeter. [The house suffered extensive damage.] Moss got the dog from the humane society. Glenda said, ‘He’d had such a tough time. He’d been starved, beaten and abused. My dog was just amazing.’” 

Makes you want to cry, actually. But yet another example of why dogs remain No. 1 on the All-Species List. [Almost time for an update, by the way. Sometime in July. Should people power win out in Iran, humans could move up a few notches.] 

–Uh oh. California officials are concerned that reckless practices on porn film sets risk a new outbreak of HIV cases. As Michael Blood, AP, reported: “It was revealed this week that a woman tested positive for HIV immediately after making an adult film.” But the Division of Occupational Safety and Health can’t identify the filmmaker. 

You see, kids, the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, which tests hundreds of actors each month where the industry is headquartered (in the San Fernando Valley), gives out the work grants for those who pass the test. 

Here at Bar Chat, we also take this issue seriously. In fact, every author is tested after completing each column…per the guidelines of the International Web Site Association. Which means in the case of yours truly, most weeks I have to endure five blood tests. And each time I have the same complaint. “Geezuz, guys. I don’t have time for a freakin’ date! Why do I have to keep going through this?” But rules are rules. 

–Speaking of things Californian, I loved the line from Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News on the trials and tribulations of USC. With basketball coach Tim Floyd having resigned, they have lost all their recruits from a class that was supposed to be one of the best. Plus you have the ongoing investigation into Reggie Bush. 

“I think USC deserves our praise for somehow remaining under the salary cap – and in two sports – for as long as it has.” 

—Tom Seaver’s advice for potential superstar Stephen Strasburg, the first pick in the recent baseball draft by the Washington Nationals. 

“It’s not the adulation and it’s not the money, it’s the journey. You’re an artist. You can create great pieces of art. The destination is wonderful, yes, but the joy and the satisfaction is in the journey.” 

I love you, Tom, but these days it’s about the money. Sally Brown got it right 45 years ago when she asked Santa Claus for “tens and twenties.” [Adjusted for inflation, today, more like $50s and $100s.] 

I did like this Seaver anecdote, though, as told to the New York Post’s Kevin Kernan. 

Seaver remembered a bases-loaded jam early in his career with the great Willie McCovey at the plate. 

“I created that situation by walking the guy in front of McCovey,” Seaver said. “I got the count to 3-2 on him, and this was when I was still throwing hard, but I threw him a changeup and struck him out. I’m walking off the mound and (catcher) Jerry Grote says, ‘Great pitch, Tom. What was that?’ 

–You know who sounds like a real jerk? Cristiano Ronaldo, he of the massive contract, about $170 million over six years ($45 million of it the final year of his escalating deal). What’s more astounding is that Real Madrid paid Manchester United $130 million, or thereabouts, just to acquire the rights to Ronaldo. Real had also just acquired a Brazilian star, “Kaka,” (yup, everyone is commenting on his name) signing him for $90 million. Needless to say, Real Madrid is looking to overthrow Champions League titleholder Barcelona, let alone put a huge dent in Manchester United’s global marketing power. By the way, the key for ManU is getting into the Champions League every year, with the top three English clubs qualifying automatically (Chelsea and Liverpool being among other names the casual fan would be familiar with in the Premier League). Qualifying for the Champions League earns a team about $50 million. 

Anyway, back to Ronaldo himself, after ManU lost to Barcelona in the Champions League Final, he criticized manager Alex Ferguson’s tactics, and as the BBC’s chief football correspondent said, earlier Ronaldo “threw his toys out of the pram in the derby with Manchester City after he was substituted. He’s been very high maintenance.” And as a ManU fanzine editor put it, “History will remember him very well in terms of his contribution as a footballer; he’ll also be seen as petulant, egotistical and stubborn.” 

So is it any wonder that Ronaldo celebrated his big contract and new club by sucking face all night with Paris Hilton? Sounds like a match made in Hell. 

“Sam Cutler, the officer who ran (the U.S. Army’s rest and recreation facilities) farewelled them as they boarded an old Flying Fortress bomber, converted to a troop transporter, to head back to the front. It flew only a short distance before hurtling into the ground at Bakers Creek, killing all but one aboard. 

“Foye Roberts, of Wichita Falls, Texas, seated in the tail which was sheared off, miraculously survived…. 

“For Cutler, this was a life-altering, traumatic experience which he recorded in his diaries – diaries later read by his son Bob, a university professor in Washington. 

“ ‘I put the men on the ship and so had a direct part in sealing their fate,’ he wrote. ‘Also I was at the scene of the crash and saw the mangled bodies, killed while flying at 200 miles per hour. Terrible.’” 

The story has come to light now because while Australia put a memorial at the crash site in Queensland in 1992, recently the U.S. has placed a memorial on the grounds of Fort Myer, Virginia, near Arlington National Cemetery. 

Why now? It’s been a long battle, but it goes back to the fact that when the accident first occurred, family members were told their loved ones were killed but not how. Gen. MacArthur had the incident censored, “fearing the news would dampen the Allies’ already low morale in the Pacific. There were no newspaper reports.” 

In fact it wasn’t until 1958 that the censorship was lifted, and then it took another ten years before Cutler was able to track many of the families down after he found a list of names and searched military records for living relatives. [Sydney Morning Herald] 

–There are some tragedies that are just so stupid, I can’t help but mention ‘em. Like this one this weekend off the notoriously treacherous waters off the Rockaways in New York. From the New York Post: 

“The events unfolded at around 8:15 a.m. near Beach 12th Street in Far Rockaway. Ramon X [keeping it anonymous for various reasons] and Daria Z were wading in water off a jetty, according to a female co-worker who was with the pair. 

Anyway, Ramon died trying to aid a struggling Miranda who was pulled out of the water, unconscious, by a fishing-boat crew. Talk about your basic idiots. 

–We note the passing of former major leaguer Woodie Held, 77. Held played for seven teams over 14 seasons and clubbed 179 homers, with four seasons where he hit 20 or more, his best years coming with Cleveland. At one point he was traded from Kansas City to the Indians in a multiplayer trade for Roger Maris, who a year later was sent to the Yankees…and baseball history. [I’m embarrassed. I totally forgot Maris’ career started out in Cleveland.] 

–The University of Alabama football team has to forfeit victories from the 2005 through 2007 seasons in which seven players participated while ineligible, plus the school was fined over $43,000 and placed on probation through June, 2012, after it was discovered athletes obtained free textbooks and gave them to other students. It’s not just football, 15 other sports programs, and 200 student-athletes, are involved. But, “The infractions committee noted that the four-highest amounts, ranging from $2,715 to $3,947, were obtained by football players.” 

–Of course when it comes to SEC football, this coming season it’s all about Tennessee and new coach Lane Kiffin. Or rather, as I’ll note only about 30 times in the future, his wife, Layla Kiffin, who is so gorgeous, you almost wonder if she’s from another planet, know what I’m sayin’? [Go ahead and Google her name….about 50 million others already have.] 

–So I’m reading Sports Illustrated and they ask a bunch of athletes what their favorite thing to put on a pizza is, and one, Tigers pitcher Edwin Jackson, said “ranch dressing.” You know, that sounds intriguing. Gotta try it. 

–Holy Toledo… “Teenager survives meteor hit” 

“A 14-year-old boy has survived being struck by a red-hot meteorite the size of a pea as he walked to school. 

“Gerrit Blank saw a ‘ball of light’ hurtling towards him from the sky in his home town of Essen, Germany. 

“The tiny meteorite hit his hand, causing a seven-centimeter-long gash, before bouncing off and causing a 30-centimeter-wide crater in the ground. 

“ ‘At first I just saw a large ball of light and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand,’ he told Britain’s Daily Telegraph. ‘Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder. The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards. When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road.’” [Scientists have concluded the rock came from space.] 

Get this, “The only other time a person survived a meteor strike was in 1954 in the U.S. state of Alabama when a tennis-ball-sized chunk of rock crashed through the roof of a house and landed on a sleeping woman.” [Matthew Benns / Sydney Morning Herald] 

–At this week’s LPGA Championship in Maryland, “Ahn Shi-hyun’s drive on the ninth hole on Friday hit a robin, killing the bird in a puff of feathers. 

“ ‘It’s a shame,’ marshal Nina Dawson told Reuters. ‘The bird was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was instanteous.’” 

–The ticket scalping issue goes on and on, especially here in New Jersey when it comes to Bruce Springsteen’s concerts. But Sunday’s Star-Ledger reports that Bruce isn’t exactly a saint in this matter. 

“An examination of ticket sale data from the May 21 concert shows Springsteen himself may be part of the reason people couldn’t get good tickets. The best seats in the house that night were the 1,126 seats in the four sections closest to the stage, but only 108 of those tickets were ever for sale to the public, according to new ticket data obtained through the Open Public Records Act. 

“In all, 2,262 seats were held back from public sale, for the band, its record company and agent and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the public agency that operates the arena and acted as promoter for the concerts. That number represents 12 percent of the total. That violates state law, say some legislators.” 

Evidently, they are allowed to hold back 5 percent for family, fan clubs, friends, sponsors, for the band, for the producer, etc. 

As reported by Peggy McGlone, “Springsteen is known for keeping tickets back and then releasing them for sale at the last minute. However, the records for the May 21 concert, provided by the sports authority, indicate that if such a drop took place it was no more than about 80 tickets from a total of more than 1,000 held back.” Bruuuuuuuuuce! 

–I read some of the Adam Lambert piece in the current Rolling Stone and I’ve mellowed in my old age on many topics, as he’s told us what we all knew concerning his sexuality. I watched very little of Idol but saw a lot of the clips on the Entertainment Tonight type shows, so I just found the following humorous from Adam’s experience in the limelight, as told to Rolling Stone’s Vanessa Grigoriadis. 

“When Lambert hit the Top 13 (of A.I.), he sublet his studio apartment in a 1920s Hollywood building and moved into the show’s Bel-Air mansion with a new roommate: eventual winner Kris Allen. ‘I was like, ‘Oh, shit, they put me with the cute guy,’’ he says. ‘Distracting! He’s the one guy that I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type – except that he has a wife. I mean, he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100 percent straight.’” 

Oh, you can just picture what was going through his mind, exactly as he described it. You’d also have to be an idiot not to think Lambert is going to be a killer act for years to come. 

–I just saw that Entourage is returning July 12, with Vinnie Chase starring in Martin Scorcese’s Great Gatsby remake. Yes, once again HBO finds a way to string you along and keep most of its subscriber base. And Curb Your Enthusiasm returns in the fall. [Haven’t gotten into True Blood yet.] 

Top 3 songs for the week 6/13/70: #1 “The Long And Winding Road” (The Beatles) #2 “Which Way You Goin’ Billy” (The Poppy Family) #3 “Everything Is Beautiful” (Ray Stevens…not the Metsies!)…and…#4 “Get Ready” (Rare Earth) #5 “Love On A Two-Way Street” (The Moments) #6 “Cecilia” (Simon & Garfunkel) #7 “The Letter” (Joe Cocker) #8 “Up Around The Bend” (Creedence Clearwater Revival) #9 “Make Me Smile” (Chicago) #10 “The Love You Save” (The Jackson 5) 

Golf Quiz Answers: 1) The last three to win consecutive U.S. Open titles, after Bobby Jones accomplished the feat, 1929-30.  Ralph Guldahl, 1937-38 (no way I’d have gotten him), Ben Hogan, 1950-51, and Curtis Strange, 1988-89. 2) Players who have successfully defended more than one major: Jones, aside from the Open, also won back-to-back British Opens, 1926-27. Walter Hagen: 1924-27 PGA; 1928-29 British. Tiger Woods: 1999-2000 PGA; 2001-02 Masters; 2005-06 British; 2006-07 PGA. Surprised Nicklaus isn’t on this list? I’ll have some stats involving Jack next time that are quite startling. 3) Mark Hayes, 1977 British Open, and Jodie Mudd, 1991 British, are two who have shot 63 in a major.