It was blemish free, and perhaps the most impressive aspect of the round was not the accurate driving, the ball-on-string iron play, the staunch putting, or the steady accumulation of birdies, but the way he scrambled par when threatening to leak shots over the final stretch.
How did it come to be blemished by betting syndicates in countries as far away as Malaysia?
Atul Nishar, founder and executive chairman of Hexaware Technologies, an IT firm in Mumbai, felt that a faster sale would benefit not just Satyam but the Indian IT industry, whose image has been blemished by the Satyam fraud.
Many of the men who will go into the Sistine Chapel to elect a pope they hope will help the church recover from the bruising scandal of sexual abuse have themselves been blemished by it.
Some of these were blemished with financial scandal.
Nevertheless, Mr. Feinstein added: "His reputation has forever been blemished".
No, God's children are the ones who are blemished".
"It was a blemish on a good victory," Zambrano said.
It was a blemish on an otherwise worthy record – she claims to have had only one obstetric emergency in 35 years of delivering babies the natural way.
Though Massa was found to be at fault, it was another blemish on the unremarkable 2011 campaign of Hamilton, who has made frequent contact with other drivers, Massa in particular.
Once upon a time, a pitcher would have considered himself fortunate to escape Coors Field with a performance like that, but for Jimenez, the Rockies' 26-year-old ace, it was a blemish that raised his earned run average above 1.00 for the first time in nearly two months.
