Where You Can Watch The Wyndham Final Round Since You Sure Won't Find Out On The CBSSports Website!

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A quick look at the CBSSports.com golf page--and that's about all I can muster these days (no offense, Shane Bacon)--does not reveal to readers when you can watch CBS Sports' production of the rain-delayed Wyndham Championship.

What a wonderful PGA Tour Partner, looking out for the fans who might not have seen the golf today but were curious about watching a pretty attractive finish where Sergio Garcia will try to fend off Tim Clark.

Thankfully, Helen Ross noted the TV and satellite radio start times in her blog post about the weather delay. And Golf Channel sent out a release because, unlike CBS Sports and their website, the aforementioned entities actually care about their fans.

FYI, the final round of the Wyndham Championship will resume on Monday with Golf Channel airing live coverage beginning at 9 a.m. ET.  Sergio Garcia is currently leading at 15-under-par.  Morning Drive will air live for two hours leading into live tournament coverage beginning at 7 a.m. ET, featuring live interviews on-site from Greensboro.  Golf Central will air live following the conclusion of the Monday’s final round coverage.
 
Below is Golf Channel’s Monday morning programming schedule (all times Eastern):
 
7-9 a.m.                                                       Morning Drive (Live)
 
9 a.m.-12 p.m. (Approx)                                Final Round Wyndham Championship (L)
 
After conclusion                                             Golf Central (Live)

“It’s amazing. This game can tease you. You’re ready to pack it in, and then the game throws a 61 at you. And then you don’t know what the hell to do.”

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Jimmy Walker posted a 62 playing "boring" golf at Sedgefield, but how about Tim Herron's 16-shot turnaround in round two, narrowly missing a course record 60?

Jeff Mills reports.

“I missed a couple on the front,” Herron said. “I missed about a 5-footer straight down the hill (on the 9th hole). I had a good chance at 59. But you didn’t know that after nine holes. I was just trying to make some putts and gain some confidence.”

“I went to the green with a long putter today, and it just didn’t feel right,” Herron said. “So I went back to the one I started with yesterday. Off the fringe I had about five three-putts yesterday. So I didn’t really have anything to lose today.”

Herron’s two-ball putter heated up on Sedgefield’s back nine Friday, when he made six birdies – including five in a row starting on the 13th hole.

Firestone Field Averaged 313.8 Yards!

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We finally see a firm golf course on the PGA Tour with the ball running, drivers not taken away from the players, and the average...was 313.8 yards.

Of course, Mike Stachura, as he can always be counted on, tells us why this is nothing to worry about, it's too soon to say, it's...ah you know the usual denial tactics!

Technically he's right, the damage was done long ago when the governing bodies were outsmarted and now we're stuck with hundreds of 7,000-yard plus courses no one wants to play, own or maintain.

Foley Says Kostis Mangled Tiger Swing Analysis

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Pete McDaniel talks to instructor Sean Foley, who explains how CBS on-course reporter Peter Kostis got it wrong in breaking down Tiger's swing last weekend when he described Tiger's clubface as being "toed-in'' when it really was the opposite.

Foley went on to explain that the shot was actually executed with an open clubface. Through body rotation Tiger imparted right-to-left spin on the ball and that's what made it curve.

"His clubface was open say three degrees and his body rotation amounted to four degrees. That's what produced the draw.''

Budding Bromance: Branden Grace Unabashedly Declares For Tiger

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The quote in Randall Mell's item on Grace's third day in a row paired with Tiger reads like Grace is being held at gun point...and no I looked, he's not represented by Steiny. Yet.

“I hadn’t played with him before, but now, to have played with him three days in a row, has been unreal,” Grace said. “I've learned a hell of a lot from playing with him. The way he plays shots, the way he handles himself and things like that, has been great.  He's there because he is the best in the world. I've seen it now, and I think people really criticize him, that is wrong.  He's one hell of a guy, and he's pretty much the nicest guy I've ever played with.”

There is something wrong if Tiger is this agreeable to play with. Mercifully, they are not paired together again tomorrow.

High Score Will Win In Reno: Stableford Is Back!

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From an unbylined AP story on the return of the format at this week's Reno-Tahoe Open, livening up a tour schedule dominated by 72-hole stroke play events.

It all should make for an exciting finish Sunday on the par 5-18th that stretches to 616 yards but runs downhill, often down wind, and usually is reachable in two.

"You can come down to the last and play the hole OK, make a five and some guy four points behind you can pass you," Harrington said. "You never lose a four-shot lead coming down to the last but you could easily lose a four-point lead."

Jana Smoley, director of the 14-year-old tournament, said the course sets up nicely for the different scoring format especially with high risk-reward shots on the final three holes that include the 220-yard, par-3 16th and 464-yard, par-4 17th.

"We like to say black is the new red in Reno," she said. "The highest score wins."

Phil On Playing Bethpage's 7th As A Three-Shotter

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Brendan Prunty gives us a sneak preview of the Barclays big debut at Bethpage Black and notes one key change to the PGA Tour plans for the 7th hole compared to the USGA's U.S. Open setup.

During the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Opens, the USGA played it as a 500-plus yard par-4. At the end of next month, it will play as a 550-yard-plus par-5 for The Barclays. While Mickelson continuously professed his love for the course and the New York-area galleries, the changes at the seventh were welcome news.

“I’ve always been a fan of the original designer’s interests in how a golf hole is designed to play from its inception,” Mickelson said. “As opposed to somebody else who comes in and tries to alter it for their own benefit or ego.”

Who Says The Canadian Open Isn't Interesting?

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From the sounds of Doug Ferguson's lively game story, it sounds like Scott Piercy's "boring golf" win in Canada came at the end of an entertaining week and a fast play final round that ended early!?

It also sounds like Piercy was not a victim of another anti-driver setup, this time at Hamiton?

"That was taken a little out of context," he said. "I like to hit driver a lot, and this golf course I felt took the driver out of my hands. I did say, however, that at the end of the week if the score is good, it is exciting. So I'm pretty excited."

It was anything but boring at the start of his round, when he quickly erased a two-shot deficit by running off four straight birdies. He used iron off the tee for the first two birdies, then turned to his power.

First, he blasted a 5-iron from 236 yards in the rough onto the green on the par-5 fourth hole for a two-putt birdie. Then, he hit driver onto the green at the 296-yard fifth hole for another two-putt birdie.

He never imagined playing the rest of the way at 1-over par and winning the tournament. His 263 tied the record set by Johnny Palmer in 1952 at St. Charles in Winnipeg, Manitoba. That leaves The Barclays (Bob Gilder in 1982) as the tournament that has gone the longest without its scoring record being matched or beaten.

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