Misc. Weekend Reads
Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 09:24 PM The most appropriate way to commemorate Tiger’s exciting win at Doral: enjoy the image of a lefthanded Tiger hitting the first tee shot as you enter Phil Mickelson’s official web site (watch the multimedia opening, it’s quick but definitely not Phil!). Here’s the discussion on golfclubatlas.com where they're having a few laughs at Phil’s expense. And don’t miss Phil’s column, “A few words from the King,” naming him The King because he won the West Coast Swing bonus (making him King of the Swing...see, you learn something new everyday here at gs.com!).
This AP story has the details of Paul Casey’s worst heckler to date. No doubt one of the thousands of fans who emailed Titleist last fall, begging them to drop Casey after his “properly hated” them comments.
TGC's George White figures out that the “Big Four” of Woods-Singh-Els-Mickelson played in the same event only 7 times last year, while 15 tournaments saw three of the big four enter. Why do I envision network television executives bringing this stat up after Tim Finchem mentions he’s looking for a $1 billion package?
Joe Gordon writes that the Deutsche Bank event is basically going to keep returning to the unpopular TPC Boston because it benefits Tiger’s charity, thus Tiger will play, and Tiger means TV. In suggesting a shorter season this week, Tiger probably wouldn’t propose that this relatively new and meaningless event go away.
John Huggan writes about the potential media-relations mess better known as Ian Woosnam’s Ryder Cup captaincy, while Larry Bohannon artfully dispels the notion that the Tour will ever shorten the season.