The Hlog

Masters Friday: Walk on Water

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Zach Johnson shot a 76 Friday and there isn't much that's cute or colorful to say about it.

Since Johnson's 18 holes (and those of playing partners Luke Donald and Geoff Ogilvy) were the only golf I saw at the Masters on a warm Friday afternoon, I'll instead recount a story from Thursday night.

It was late and I was looking for something quick and easy to eat before retiring for the night. Living on the road, my friends, means you don't always eat well.

Not being picky at 10:30 p.m., I saw a sign for a sports bar that touted "good food." It was in a shopping center. I parked my car - which has an "eternal patch" on its back driver's side tire after I ran over a nail and had a flat tire just a few blocks from Augusta National Tuesday morning - and walked toward the sports bar, called Robbie's.

Next door was another bar, this one called the Country Club. Blaring from the bar was what sounded like Eddie Money singing his late 1980s hit "Walk on Water." But it didn't sound like a record, but rather, live music.

I asked the doorman if that was a cover band. He said no, it was Eddie Money. The Eddie Money of "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise," and my personal Money favorite, "Take Me Home Tonight." That's because he features the great Ronnie Spector on vocals. That girl can sing.

So, always in search of cultural treasures, I started to wander into the Country Club. But the doorman says, uh no, there's a $30 cover.

I went to Robbie's instead, had a cheeseburger, and listened to the jukebox.

If I could toss away thirty bucks on an oldies act like Eddie Money without deep regrets, I'd feel like I could walk on water.