Sunday, June 15, 2025

Sports Today -- June 15, 2025

Locator: 48753PGA.

PGA:

  • Maybe it's just me, but this has to be among the most boring US Opens ever. McIlroy is +9 with the leader Burns (?) at -4.  Later: holy mackerel -- the 64-foot putt. Holy mackerel! What a finish!

Top five, early going:

  • Burns, Scott, Hovland, Hatton, Spaun, C. Ortiz.

Top five, late afternoon, after rain delay:

  • at 4:44 p.m. CT -- they won't finish the tournament today
  • Burns -- only one shooting below par after 3.5 days;
  • Scott, T. Hatton, V. Hovland, JJ Spaun (spread: -2 to +2); 7th / 8th holes
  • Scott started the day -3; even after the 8th hole
  • Scotty Scheffler at +4 on the 13th.

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The Book Page

Red Brick Black Mountain White Clay, Christopher Benfey, c. 2012/Penguin, 2013.

Chrisopher Benfey's recent essay in The New York Review of Books resulted in me ordering this book sight unseen. Ordered yesterday or two days ago, I forget; arrived today. Excellent, excellent book.

From an earlier post:

Three works:

  • The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund De Waal, c. 2010, the link;
  • The White Road: Journey Into An Obsession, Edmund de Waal, c. 2015, the link;
  • Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, serial published in 1880 - 1881, and then as a book, 1881.
From a recent issue of The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2025, p. 21, "Anecdote of the Teapot," Christopher Benfey. Link here.