{"id":439,"date":"2013-07-16T03:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=439"},"modified":"2013-07-16T03:23:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:23:42","slug":"from-gold-mountain-to-john-deere-classic-spieth-has-gone-a-long-ways-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"From Gold Mountain to John Deere Classic, Spieth has gone a long ways in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton<\/h1>\n

Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He discovered the grass is only greener here (it\u2019s blue in Kentucky), so he returned to again take charge of his 1954 green Hudson Hornet that has been in storage, refilled his pipe, and is ready to continue his smokin\u2019 ways. Here is what he recently told us at the Sports Paper.<\/p>\n

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Man, did you see what Jordan Spieth did Sunday, Big Dawg? The guy \u2013 and he\u2019s only 19 \u2013 won the John Deere Classic on Sunday in a five-hole playoff. That\u2019s the same Jordan Spieth who two years ago at Gold Mountain Golf Complex won the U.S. Junior National Amateur.\u00a0 The sub-note to this is that when Spieth played the national amateur at Gold Mountain, he played with a caddy arranged by Gold Mountain\u2019s then executive director, Scott Alexander. The caddy was a Tacoma teacher that Alexander knew. The teacher and Spieth hit it off so well that Spieth hired the teacher to his caddy when he landed on the PGA Tour. The teacher took a year\u2019s sabbatical from teaching and you don\u2019t need to look now but that teacher just won about two year\u2019s worth of teaching salary with the 10-percent he gets from Spieth\u2019s $828,000 victory.\u00a0 Spieth is the youngest golfer to win a PGA event in 82 years. He already has earned $2 million since leaving the University of Texas in December to join the tour. He\u2019s made six top-10 finishes and made the cut in 12 of the 16 events he\u2019s entered. So there, Big Dawg, go break out your clubs, you still have a chance at riches. Well, on second though, no you don\u2019t. You were the world\u2019s worse golfer when you played, and now I suspect you probably are the worse in the Universe. \u2026 Speaking of golf, I\u2019m pleased that Mark Knowles, the head golf pro at Gold Mountain, has enticed his good friend, Randy Fossum, to come out and work a few hours a week at the course. Fossum has been in a wheelchair for 10 years after suffering a couple seizures and enduring some horrible moments. But he\u2019s more than willing to get back on the green, so to speak. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how it works,\u201d says Knowles, who was five years behind Fossum at North Mason High School back in the 1980s.\u00a0 \u201cAs a young person, he was always nice to me. I always considered myself as being his younger brother.\u201d When Knowles got the job at head pro and became charged with doing all the hiring, his first thought was to Fossum. \u201cI wanted to find some way he could be involved,\u201d says Knowles. \u201cHe\u2019s really excited about it. Knowles, by the way, is doing quite well on the links. He won the last two Northwest Pro-Ams. He won his first in the middle of June at Alderbrook and the next one held at LakeLand Village, which was his home course growing up. Knowles, by the way, is 45. Fossum is 50.<\/p>\n

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