John Deere Classic round 1 complete

The beautiful TPC Deere Run is the course for this week's John Deere Classic. Although up through this am, it's been a wet course to say the least. Wednesday's Pro Am was first delayed and then suspended due to storms that went through the area.

With some very macho men out here this week, there was nothing more touching than the tears shed by Bubba Watson when interviewed and speaking of his fathers battle with lung cancer. He was diagnosed 1 year ago. Bubba will be taking the next tournament off, to spend some time with his dad. Gary Sr has sure raised a wonderful son, that's for sure.

Another illness comes to this week's tourney in the way of player Jason Day. This 22 year old has been battling a chronic sinus infection for the past 5 months. He remains on medication and will undergo another CT scan in the coming weeks to see if it has improved. If not, he will be facing surgery for the left maxillofacial sinus cavity. Luckily, Only a couple days of recovery would follow such. He nearly had to withdraw from the opening day of the Nelson due to how bad he was feeling on the meds & w/the infection. One thing is for sure, the sultry weather conditions have not likely helped his situation any. The rest of this tourney is expected to be perfect temps and free from rain.

Steve Stricker, last years champion is back to defend his title. With living just 3 hrs north, in Wisconsin; they hopped in the car and drove down for this tourney.

Paul Goydos finished with an impressive round 59 today, to join the likes of only two other PGA players have done here in the past.

Rickie Fowler with his Bieber-do, will be sporting his Blazing Orange on Sunday, as has become his salute to his college days at Oklahoma.

This John Deere Classic is the 40th anniversary of this great tourney and is setting up to be anyone's game. Zach Johnson (who hails from the neighboring state of Iowa), will be playing for a large home crowd. With Cedar Rapids Iowa being under a 2 hr drive to the course, you can be sure his followers whom call themselves the "Zach attack" will be trailing their hometown boy!