- Regardless of if my parents would make me walk a mile to get to school, even if in rain, I find myself okay with calling and requesting someone on the ESPN compound take the time to pick me up. My reasons for this follow:

• The weather can change on a dime from just gray and cold, to gray, cold, and horizontally raining during the time it would take me to walk. Arriving to a job site, soaking wet to the bone in a suit on a cold day to sit in an air conditioned room for 12 hours isn’t reasonable… not for someone whose been doing this for a decade, and not for someone whose only just gotten started.
• I didn’t choose to room at a house more than a mile from site.
• I didn’t choose to not allow me a rental car. The overnight editor staying here has one… so I will happily wait for someone with one to pick me up.

- After watching the first day of the Open, golf remains a mystery to me. Maybe it’s because Royal Birkdale is a fucking hard course. When you see it from a wide shot, your first thought would be wonderment over the lack of grounds keeping that’s not occurring just outside the greens. And the number of sand traps, or bunkers as they call them, is really absurd. Teamed up with the uneven greens, and this could almost be a the ultimate mini golf tournament.

- Saturday ESPN live coverage starts I think at 7:30am on Saturday. The tease will play then (I did nothing for this tease btw, but it’s really good), followed shortly by a recap of the first two days which I will start editing Friday night. My tease will air on Sunday (and probably look very similar at parts to Saturdays)

- I watched footage of a pro golfer smoking while playing.  As if you needed more proof that golfers’ aren’t athletes.

- You learn something every day; for me, it’s Mickleson… not Nickleson

- After the shitty weather and ridiculous course, two of the 140+ golfers playing quit today.

- I know understand why Tiger decided to opt for knee surgery over playing here. No matter how good you might be, you won’t look good playing here. The wind, rain and course have seen to that.

- Turns out another pro golfer decided instead to play a tournament in Wisconsin. We shot a funny piece with another pro standing on a hill, battling high winds and sideways rain while expressing disbelief that his colleague would forgo the experience for 85 degree calm weather.

- The next two nights look like killers for me and the workload. If I get a chance to update this, don’t feel cheated if it’s an entry with only one word… ug.

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