Ah, the famous “He gets his tongue stuck on the frozen pole” scene from everyone’s favorite holiday movie — A Christmas Story.
We all love the adventures of young Ralphie and his family as the Christmas season takes over the town. There are classic antics and shenanigans. One of the most memorable is the old “frozen pole scene” where one of the wise-ass kids accepts the old “Triple-Dog-Dare” and is dumb enough to stick his tongue out and make contact with a frozen pole in the school playground.
TaylorMade golf has a clever marketing department and this year they’ve re-created the scene where the kid, unfortunately, accepts the dare and suffers the consequences.
It’s a great re-creation with Rory McIlroy starring as the antagonist who throws out the dreaded “Triple-Dog-Dare” to the character played by Matt Wolff. Ralphie, an onlooker in the scene, is played by Collin Morikawa who looks very authentic in the role.
Click here for the TaylorMade spoof video:
No doubt, A Christmas Story is on everyone’s holiday watch list. No matter how many times you’ve seen it, it never gets old.
For comparison, here’s the link to the original “tongue-stuck-on-the-frozen-pole” scene:
Click here for the actual pole scene from iconic movie:
John Daly Thinks Tiger Will Break Jack’s Major Record:
John Daly was super-impressed with Tiger Woods at the PNC Championship last weekend, so much in fact, that J.D. had a bold prediction about Tiger’s eventual return to competitive golf.
Here’s Daly’s proclamation:
“But I think Tiger’s gonna be fine. He looked good. He looked a little tired, but he still looked great. He’ll be back, and I could see it in his eyes; he’s probably gonna beat Jack Nicklaus’ records and be the greatest of all time.
In other words, J.D. thinks Tiger will win not one, not two, not three but four more majors?
Hmmmmmmm.
Jordan Spieth Joining The “Aim-Point” Movement?:
Dustin Johnson and his brother/caddie Austin are one of the PGA Tour teams that use the fairly new “Aim Point” method for reading putts. It’s largely Austin who does the actual work — straddling the line and putting up a hand with the Mr. Spock “Live Long And Prosper” Vulcan finger sign.
Seems Jordan Spieth is thinking about joining that club this coming season.
Spieth has his looper — Michael Greller studying up on the technique.
Spieth said Greller recently met with John Graham, the putting coach for Justin Thomas, for a crash course.
“I told him I try to look for an edge,” Spieth said. “It would be cool to gain a little edge by learning a skill you don’t have. In the past I would do Trackman seminars, stuff that here or there could mean a stroke.”
Tiger Woods (Once Again) Proves He IS “The Needle”:
By now everyone knows that Tiger Woods doesn’t “drive the needle” — he IS “the needle” when it comes to bringing eyeballs to golf.
He proved it once again last weekend at the PNC Championship. The tournament averaged 2.3 million viewers on NBC this year compared to around 1.5 million in 2020 when son Charlie made his public debut.
No doubt who won the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Program “contest” in 2020 and no doubt Tiger will take the top prize again in 2022.
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3 Comments
baxter cepeda
JDs personal judgment has been questionable at times but like Lee Trevino I will take Big Johns judgments on tiger over doubters like Cook and Chamblee.
What doubters still don’t realize about tiger woods is how many aspects of golf he still has an edge over the competition.
He still has his genius. He still has the best mind for golf ever.
He mentions regularly he still has his hands. That’s huge for tiger to believe that.
He still has it in the eyes. Maybe his vision has regressed some but tiger still sees things on golf courses better than most.
I could go on and on about his work ethic and so much more but the point is that while tiger has lost some physical advantages; he still has so much going for him.
Golf is a funny game that even in a time when the game succumbing to power, in the biggest moments it is still the same old game where all the little things mean a lot more than big power. Just ask Bryson at Augusta, losing balls left and right while tiger hit old man draws to victory.
This all is just a small part of explaining why someone like JD believes tiger can still do it.
I get it It’s hard to believe this after this horrific accident, but as horrific as the injuries were, they weren’t as permanently horrific as initially believed.
There was never enough detail on the extent of tigers crushed foot, so many expressed the worst case circumstances, but it’s gotta be pretty clear by now it wasn’t quite to the extent as it could have been.
Tiger was really lucky this time. He is still on a delayed track to 18 and beyond. But I do agree time wise the margin for error is getting shorter and shorter. He really needs to take care of himself moving forward if that record is actually going to happen for him.
It would not be the end of the world if it doesn’t happen for Tiger but it’s clearly still the goal for him. So as we do for everyone in golf we root for Tiger to get it done.
It’s easy to doubt amazing achievements as cook and Chamblee make their money doing. Those two know a thing or two but they are not at the level of major champions like Mr Daly and Mr Trevino. These 2 know greatness on another level. They know you never underestimate greatness. They know they were underestimated.
Greats know Greatness is meant to constantly surprise the cooks and chamblees of the world.
For me, When it comes to these matters, I always like to go with the greats.
Tom Edrington
What JD says always depends on how many drinks he’s had.
baxter cepeda
Pretty sure he was mostly sober when he said that.