I just read an article by John Feinstein It seems impossible, but Steve Stricker is actually nicer than you think. We're seeing a lot of articles about Steve Stricker right now because the US Open will be held next week at Erin Hills, a course in Hartford, Wisconsin. Sticker is a Wisconsin native and did a commercial for the coming US Open, but he was not given a sponsor's exemption to play in the event. No matter, Stricker went out and qualified for the Open and, in fact, was the medalist in the Memphis qualifying tournament. This is no small accomplishment. Qualification is brutal. The best amateur golfers I have ever met, guys that drive the ball over 300 yards and have tremendous short games, could not get through qualification. Sticker is a beast, a savage.
Steve Stricker has done another famous commercial for Avis, mentioned by Feinstein in the article (video above). What makes this commercial so funny is that it is "So Stricker!" in John Feinstein's words. I think it is one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen, but I am also a Midwesterner often mistaken for a New Yorker (read Feinstein's article, it is very funny and Feinstein is a New Yorker).
A friend and I walked the Erin Hills course in 2006 when it hosted the US Amateur. It is a long, brutal links course. Now that Steve Stricker has qualified, I wish him the best of luck in the Open. It will take every bit of Beast and Savage he can muster, and that is a lot.
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