The Masters - Day Two

A day for the young??? I am watching 3 young players as they vie for the lead of the Masters on day two; McIlroy, Fowler and Day. Some real talent in this threesome. Naturally my thoughts turn to how many tournaments have been won by first timers and how there are so many talented players who have not yet reached their 25^th birthday. Will the 2011 Masters Champion be one such youthful player?

As I ponder that thought, I see that there are two veterans quietly making moves out on the course. One of them would stand the hairs on the back of my neck on end if I was leading the championship, Tiger Woods. Tiger is now only three off the lead. The other is Lee Westwood who was recently the number one player in the world. He turned in a five under 67 today and sits only five back.

Additionally, some of the perennial powerhouses are on the first two pages of the leaderboard and any one of them could make a charge tomorrow on moving day and challenge the leader Rory McIlroy.

Like all Masters Championships, this will prove to be a nail biter. Stay tuned.

Libya, really???

Note to our government; in this case our enemies enemy is not our friend. We are now going to fund Al-Qaeda operations? You know there will come a time when we realize that we provided weapons to Libyan rebels that are used against our own forces in other parts of the world. Mark my words, it will happen. The rebellion has already been hijacked by extremists. Are we really choosing the lesser of two evils here?

I am all for the concept of being a world super power and having some responsibility for standing up for the little guy. We have done that all my life and it is one of the things I admire about this country. I am not sure our motives have always been philanthropic, none the less they have generally served our best interests in the process. In the case of Libya, I am not sure that is the case. This appears to be a lose-lose for the United States. Surely there must be someway to help the mass of people that were about to be are threatened by Gaddafi without funding Al-Qaeda rebels.