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Alright @YouTheReader,
Today’s tune is Augusta otherwise known as The Masters Theme on CBS. Dave Loggins wrote the score in 1981. He was so touched by attending the Masters in 1980 that he wrote the instrumental. Dave Loggins was 2nd cousins with Kenny Loggins who is famous for two 80s hit songs Footloose and Danger Zone. Anyway, somehow Dave Loggins got his instrumental in the hands of CBS Golf Producer Frank Chirkanian’s hands and CBS has played it for every Masters telecast every year since 1982.
On to the Masters & some Stumblin’ Along history…
TV Schedule
Round 4 start time is 9:15 AM ET. You can catch the earliest tee times on CBSSports.com or Paramount+. Some featured groups will be on CBS Sports Network from 11 AM to 1 PM. CBS, the cable network, starts its TV coverage at 2 PM ET.
Scottie Scheffler
Scottie still doesn’t know if Meredith will go into labor on Sunday. My dumbass yesterday said it was his 2nd child, but evidently it’s his first. The leader of The Masters after 54 holes still plans would still plan to withdraw if the baby is arriving. When asked by reporters after the 3rd Round, Scheffler said, “Fortunately for me, I’ll be at The Masters for quite some time and I think you only have your first child once so I’d rather be there if that’s going to happen.” Hypothetically speaking though, let’s say it’s the 17th hole with a 2-stroke lead and his caddy gets a call that it’s happening… Do you tell him or put the phone on Airplane Mode during the Back 9? Hypothetically speaking of course.
Collin Morikawa
Collin Morikawa’s 3 under par Round 3 was the best of the day among those inside the top 10 of the leaderboard. The 2-time Major winner (PGA Championship ‘20 & The Open Championship ‘21) will be matched up with the father-to-be. When asked about being a part of the final group Sunday, Morikawa responded, “Scottie is the #1 player in the world for a reason…at the end of the day, it doesn’t scare me.” That adds a little juice.
Max Homa
After starting off the tournament with 2 rounds under par, Max Homa shot 1 over on Saturday. To start his PGA career, Max Homa had previously struggled mightily at Majors as he failed to make the cut or finished 40th or below in 13 of his first 15 major events. His best finish was his last one at the British Open last year when he came in 10th. After his 3rd Round, Homa had 2 good quotes, “If I catch myself thinking about what could go wrong, I let myself dream of what could go right”, and an even better one, "I'm going to remind myself I'm a dog and I'm ready for this moment." Huge fan of a good pro-doggo quote.
Ludvig Åberg
Ludvic Åberg is a 24-year-old Swedish rookie PGA golfer. This time last year he was golfing for Texas Tech and now he’s got a shot at a Green Jacket. He and Collin Morikawa are the only golfers in the past 2 rounds to shoot under par so he has a bit of momentum on his side. One thing of Note for this tournament is that Åberg has struggled at Firethorn (hole #15). Through 3 rounds at the par 5, the Swede has double-bogeyed, par-ed, and bogeyed. One would think he’ll need to do better on that hole on Sunday to have a chance.
Bryson DeChambeau
Bryson DeChambeau after dominating his Thursday opening round going 7 under par has fallen back a bit the last 2 days. His Saturday round was rough, including 5 bogeys to go with a double bogey, however, DeChambeau finished his day with a beautiful pitch that holed out. That shot alone keeps him very much in contention. With the way he drives the ball a mile, if he can get a few bounces like that he’ll make things interesting.
Cam Davis
The total purse for The Masters this year is $20 million with $3.6 million going to the winner. Cam Davis is currently in 6th place, which would pay out $720k. I’ll have to do some Davis family tree digging because surely we’re related somewhere in the bloodlines.
Rory McIlroy
McIlroy shot 1 under par on Saturday. His best shot came on the 2nd Tee at Pink Dogwood where he striped a 380-yard bomb down the fairway. Rory will tee off on Sunday at 12:45 PM ET or 5:45 PM ET in Ireland. Down 10 strokes, he’ll need to hit a bunch of 380-yard bombs like yesterday. The biggest comeback after 54 holes was Jack Burke Jr. way back in 1956 when he came back from 8 strokes.
Shane Lowry
Shane Lowry is set to tee off at 11:15 AM ET on Sunday or 4:15 PM in Ireland. He’ll be matched up with Phil Mickelson so it should be a bit of craic. Lowry had a rough go of it on Saturday which included 6 bogeys, but he did hit find the tin cup from the rough 118 yards away. All you need is that one shot in golf to bring you back.
Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson had a one of us moment on the 3rd hole (Flowering Peach). On a chip from just outside the fringe, he rolled one well past the cup and down the hill. Aside from that triple-bogey moment, he was otherwise 1 under the rest of the day. At least he didn’t run over to the ball and hit it while it was still rolling.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is set to play his 100th round of golf at Augusta. The youngest Masters winner had a brutal Saturday as he shot an 82. His 99th round was the worst he’s ever had at Augusta and aside from the birdie GIF’d above the other highlights were him rubbing icy-hot on his back. Honestly though, after all Tiger has been through, for him to even be golfing on Sunday is a tremendous achievement. Woods will tee off with Neal Shipley, an amateur golfer, at 9:35 AM ET. That’s gotta be pretty cool for Shipley, who just celebrated his 23rd birthday on Saturday, and now gets to play with a guy who won the Masters twice before he was born and 4 times before he was old enough to pick up a golf club.
Quite a few Sundays ago, somehow in my drunken stupor, I Stumbled Along to The City Reliquary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The museum filled with cool New York City history is open on Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 6 PM. For a $10 visit, you can see a ton of cool relics from The City. This week's Stumblin’ Along on Week to Week Notes features another piece on an assortment of things on one of their displays.
After rummaging through the left side of the top shelf last week, this Sunday we must have a discussion about Domino Sugar…
The origins of the sugar company trace back to this fella named William Frederick Havemeyer’s father. William Havemeyer (the dad) was the first of his family to emigrate to America. The family’s origins go back to Germany but Havemeyer Sr. was an orphan who moved to London at 15 years old. While living in The Big Smoke, he worked at a sugar refinery before coming to America in 1799. He was still under contract of Edmund Seaman & Co. and was a superintendent for their office on Pine Street in The City. While in the States, Havemeyer Sr. must have met his son’s mother, who let’s assume was a nice lady because there ain’t much record of her, and they had WF Havemeyer in 1804. By 1807, Havemeyer Sr. started his own sugar company around present-day Hudson Square, which was one of the first aside from Edmund Seaman’s.
William Frederick Havemeyer went into the family business after receiving an education at Columbia College before it went University. The business must’ve been booming as he would go on to partner with one of his cousins, Frederick Chrisitan Havemeyer. They came up with a very creative firm name called W. F. & F. C. Havemeyer in 1828. After decades of success in sugar, William F. Havemeyer had enough of the sweetness and went into politics as he sold his shares to his brother Albert.
In 1845, WF Havemeyer became the 66th Mayor of New York City. Havemeyer was a member of the Democratic Party and was friends with President James K. Polk along with being a supporter of Andrew Jackson. One of the first things that Havemeyer did was establish the New York Police Department on May 23, 1845. I didn’t expect to learn that while reading up on sugar. After serving 2 years as mayor, he would lose his nomination in 1847, only to then get back in the Mayoral Office again in 1848. Back then, the mayoral terms weren’t 4 years like they are today. He left office after serving his first 2 terms, and supported the Union and the abolition of slavery, before returning to the Mayoral seat as a Republican in 1873. He would not finish his 3rd term as he passed away while at the office.
That’s kinda dark so back to the sweets. While the founder of Domino Sugar was in politics, his former company would again merge to become Havemeyer, Townsend & Co Refinery and they set up shop on the waterfront of Williamsburg. In 1882 the original Refinery on Williamsburg would go up in flames, so the one pictured above was rebuilt and became the largest sugar refinery in the U.S. The plant was producing over one million pounds of sugar a day. In 1891, the Havemeyer family sugar business was producing 98% of the sugar that Americans were consuming so the business was considered a monopoly. After the slap on the wrist, they would become of one the original 12 companies to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896, before rebranding their name to Domino Sugar in 1901. The name is said to come from the look of the sugar cubes and how they offered individually wrapped sugar tablets that looked like dominos.
Eventually, Domino Sugar would expand its sugar refineries to other locations in the US like Maryland, Baltimore, and Chalmette, Louisianna, as their Chalmette Refinery is the largest in the western hemisphere. The Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn added the famous smokestack in 1936 and sign in the 1950s. Today it holds the status of a National Landmark and is primarily used for office space. That’s enough on Domino Sugar for today, the shelf below at The City Reliquary features a Yank and Knick beer so that’ll be next week.
This Week’s Bit on The Roman Empire
This week your quick bit on The Roman Empire brought to you by Week to Week Notes featuring Ancient Rome: The Exhibition in New York is on the Onager Catapult.
The onager was a type of catapult used at the tail end of the Roman Empire. It was considered the most powerful weapon utilized for breaching enemy fortifications. It took up to a crew of 9 soldiers to operate. They would catapult anything that weighed 11 pounds (5 kilograms) to 110 pounds (50 kilograms) and the range of targets could be anywhere from 2 football fields (182 meters) to 650+ yards (600 meters) depending on what was being thrown. Sometimes the Romans would light the projectiles on fire and then launch it. The Onager Catapult got its name from the Onager animal (donkey), which has a fierce kickback, much like the Ancient Roman weapon.