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Congrats to my man Vijay for winning at Bay Hill!  It was also nice to see Sergio battling out there…if he could ever get his putter working, he might be able to win a major one day.  There is nothing more frustating then a cold putter.

I was once played 18 holes with a nice German fellow. Since Germans and Canadians both like beer, I thought it would be great if we had a friendly wager on the match – the loser would buy at the 19^th hole. We were both around the same skill level so it seemed to work out well.

The round went well and we were both shooting around the same score. I would have been killing him had I been able to make a few putts. He was very sporting however, each time I missed a putt he would yell Shady Froid. Froid in French means cold…so after each missed putt he was telling me I had a cold putter and would pat me on the back.

Finally, with the match on the line at the 18^th, I pissed a 6-footer and he screamed Shady Froid once again. He shook my hand and proceeded to the beer I had paid for for the next 2 hours.

Later that evening I decided to find out exactly what he kept saying during the round so I called up a German friend of mine who spent the next 5 minutes laughing at me. Turns out Shady Froid is actually Schadenfreude…which roughly translates from German to English as satisfaction derived from someone else’s misfortune!