During the Womens finals of the Re/Max World Long Drive Championship,in Mesquite,Nv.
the announcer from ESPN would interview each competitor as they exited the tee box
after hitting their 6 balls.
He'd congratulate the girls,maybe ask them a couple questions and so on.
It also gave the competitors a chance to thank their sponsers,the crowd or whoever.
Then we get down to the last girl,Melissa Brydon,all the way from Australia.
A really nice young lady,with a BIG smile and just full of personality who did everything
she could to get the crowd behind her.....LOUD ROWDY NOISE is her friend.
She was bombing the ball well past 300yds.,unfortunately only one ball made the grid
at the 272 yd.mark.
After hitting her last ball OB, she waves to the crowd (all the grandstands were packed),
and somehow she still had that BIG smile on her face.
Grabs her drivers and stands at the exit of the tee box,waiting for the ESPN guy to give her
her turn at the micrphone like all the other women who preceeded her.
NO!!!
This dumbass announcer immediately goes over to the winner, Stacey Shinnick (311 yds.)
and congratulates/interviews her for at least a minute or two.
Totally ignores Melissa Brydon,who is still standing at the tee box exit with this perplexed,
about ready to cry look on her face.
Now the crowd senses this very awkward moment,some start yelling "WHAT ABOUT MELISSA",
and this tool STILL doesn't even acknowledge that she's still standing less than 10 feet away
from he and Shinnick.
Finally Brydon walks past the two of them and there's NO handshakes,NO hugs,NO nice going
abosolutely nothing.
It was almost like she was invisible!
About the only ones who gave her due props,was the crowd.
And this is the women who had the longest drive leading up to the finals at 298 yds.,
when the weather was a lot cooler.
I wonder if she'll travel all this way next year?