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Tuesday
02Feb2010

Now That's A Tree!

The PGA Tour, FedEx, The First Tee and Audubon International hosted a photo-op today to launch a new initiative to announce the addition of Anthony Kim to their list of ambassadors (it was probably news to him too) and to plant a tree at Riviera. Not only did Kim get really dressed up, but the PGA Tour spent big money to find a specimen that would give the kids something to look forward to in 2093 when the tree is pushing 15 feet in height.

First, Kim...oh, and I know you'll be shocked to learn that's his IMG agent trailing just inches behind.

 

And the tree. Look hard, it's that weedy looking thing at their feet.

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Was he refused admittance to the clubhouse?
02.2.2010 | Unregistered CommenterRM
You couldn't make this stuff up--looks like a $1.95 twig from Home Depot--hey big spenders!!! That IMG agent looks like Secret Service to me. OMG
02.2.2010 | Unregistered CommenterVWB
Great.

Teach the little ones how to plant trees on golf courses.....

I would love to leave an expletive here, but I'm afraid the kids would hear me.
02.2.2010 | Unregistered CommenterMy Heart Swims In Blood
"Fedex Cup ForeEver"? Barf
02.2.2010 | Unregistered CommenterReef
Fifty bucks to the first person who pulls that piece of shit out from the ground and uses it to see which the way the wind is blowing.
02.2.2010 | Unregistered CommenterAl
Kim, the great ambassador of class. What was he thinking, they were going to make him dig the hole for the tree ? They could have at least picked a tree just short of needing a piece of equipment to plant it, and if I didn't know better, I'd say that was Cink tagging along for the photo shoot.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterOld Hornet
That effort looks pretty feeble. If it's worth doing, do it right or don't do it at all.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterGlyn
Ummm, FEdExCupForeEver? Odds are that twig doesn't make it. This is one of the dumbest things I've seen this week and its been a busy week for dumb things.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterJim
The Charlie Brown Christmas tree never looked so good.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterRM
Notice just behind the fed ex sign to the left the two Pampas Grasses (Cortaderia selloana), one of the most invasive and problematic plants in the state. They would have helped the environment a lot more buy pulling those out. Hopefully they are the dwarf variety which are supposed to be sterile.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterHW
To bad he didn't have his hat on backwards to complete the ensemble.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterUB
This really is desrving of ridicule.
02.3.2010 | Unregistered Commenterkeith t
VWB: Since when do secret service agents wear pink shirts?
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterIW
I can't wait until Robert Allenby hits his golf ball against it - then learns it is the Anthony Kim tree. . . Will there be a disqualification penalty if Robert demolishes it?
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterWisconsin Reader
Wisconsin Reader and EB score but with their comments.

I assume the agent is the guy with the brown coat. The guy trailing in the first picture is Dave Pillsbury one of those assistant/vice commissioner guys.

He will be the one looking around this week and wondering why their aren't more patrons in a city of 8 million. Maybe the ticket prices?
02.3.2010 | Unregistered CommenterLynn S.
Tiger's first child out of wedlock surfaces, in the argyle sweater to the left.
02.4.2010 | Unregistered CommenterEB

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