2012 Players Championship Final Round Thread
/With the bass guitar player of the Sea Island Slow Pokes joining Kevin Na, we should have another "on the clock moment" followed by no second "on the clock" to prevent a penalty shot.
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Barkley: "Kevin Na is my hero. Welcome to my world."
/Mike McAllister,
Read MoreNa-rcissism Takes Over The Players!
/From Doug Ferguson's
Read MoreA Word About The TPC Sawgrass' Perfectly Imperfect Greens
/It's a bit depressing how many comments have been directed at the imperfect and off-color look of TPC Sawgrass' bermudagrass greens, even though we've been through this the last few years at The Players.
Read MoreTiger On Camera Phone Fans: "It can cost guys tournaments because a shot on Thursday is the same as a shot on Sunday."
/The policy of allowing phones at PGA Tour events has largely been a non-story this year, even though players and caddies have to tell way too many folks to put their cameras down. But not until Tiger spoke out on behalf of his playing partners F
Read MoreJ.J. Henry On Looper Mark Brooks: “He’s got the jockey whip and is laying it on these couple of days. I’ve got my leather underwear on.”
/That image is probably a little more than you wanted to know, but
Read MoreReminder: Players TV Times, Live @ 17
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NBC/Golf Channel goes all out for this one and with the previously mentioned innovative efforts (plus one other surprise I learned of yesterday) and the limited commercial interruption, these are always some of the season's best telecasts.
The ET schedule for broadcasts and the online coverage accessible at PGATour.com:
Thursday, May 10, 1-7 p.m. - Golf Channel
Friday, May 11, 1-7 p.m. - Golf Channel
Saturday, May 12, 12-2 p.m. - Golf Channel
2-7 p.m. - NBC
Sunday, May 13, 12-2 p.m. - Golf Channel
2-7 p.m. - NBC
LIVE VIDEO SCHEDULE
• Thur-Fri 9:00a - 7:00 p
• Sat-Sun 12:00p - 7:00 p
"I would love to have played TPC Sawgrass just after it opened in 1980."
/That Geoff Ogilvy statement will have the howling players of the early 80s questioning his sanity, yet it's hard not to look at the old photos as Ogilvy has done and wonder if, other than some extreme and immature greens, maybe the lambasted version was ahead of its time?
Either way, we'll never know as Pete Dye hasn't stood up to Commissioner Monk's neat and tidy sterilization of the place and therefore we get a TPC Sawgrass which doesn't quite get the juices flowing like it could. Ogilvy explains in Golf World:
The fairways were beautifully maintained, but outside those playing areas there was an unkempt, Pine Valley-type feel to the place.
Not that I've ever seen any of that at Sawgrass. In my time on the PGA Tour, it has always been strictly maintained and manicured. Which is a pity. I'd like to see the course allowed to be a little more "wild." It's a bit too neat. It would be nicer to look at if it wasn't so nice to look at, if you know what I mean.
It could be done too. The green complexes are sufficiently challenging. You could get rid of the rough and create some interesting angles for the approach shots. Right now, scoring isn't easy even from the middle of every fairway, because that isn't necessarily the best place to be on any given hole. It isn't playing from the rough that makes the course so difficult, it is missing such undulating greens in the wrong spots.
Tiger Answers Way Too Many Geeky Swing Questions With Admirable Patience
/Say what you want about Tiger's post-kidnap video recovery, because he
Read MoreGo Time: Rickie Wins, Game Finally Matches The Look
/Without a win, Rickie Fowler's outlandish presentation was starting to make him look like a
Read More2012 Wells Fargo Championship Final Round Thread
/Fantastic leaderboard, immaculately conditioned course and a place that usually produces super finishes. Should be a dandy in North Carolina, assuming no one steals a leader's golf ball.
Fan On Tiger's Stolen Ball: “I know for a fact that I did not see anybody who rushed away"
/You'll be shocked...SHOCKED...to learn that a fan, Chris Kroeger talking to Steve Elling, is disputing the notion someone might have picked up Tiger's ball on Friday at the Wells Fargo Championship.
Kroeger's morning-after version is pretty convincing.
He said he was standing on the left side of the putting green on the fifth hole when Woods sent his approach from 261 yards deep into the trees.
“It came behind us, over our heads,” he said. “I heard nothing but leaves, and not any clean contact with any trees. I don't think the ball kicked out and I did not see any ball on the ground.”
He estimated that perhaps 50 people were in the area when the shot was struck, and they began searching for the ball immediately. As the rest of the Woods gallery caught up, it swelled to at least 300, Kroeger said. Marshals began moving fans back as Russell arrived and asked spectators what they had seen.
Two male fans, including one very vocal man, insisted they had seen the ball on the ground. Trouble is, Kroeger is pretty sure they were not among the original throng of fans who were greenside when the shot was hit in the first place.
“I had never even seen that guy,” Kroeger said.
Tiger: "I follow my old stuff and hit it awful."
/Let's get the bizarro lost ball and free drop part out of the way first.
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