"We see slight improvement – just not every day."
/Jeff Shain with an update on Devon Quigley and comments from dad Dana, who prepares to return to the Champions Tour under brutal circumstances.
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
Raynor's Fox Chapel To Host Senior Players
/I've always heard great things about Seth Raynor's Fox Chapel Golf Club design near Pittsburgh. Now we'll get to see it and Brian Silva's restoration work there next summer in what is a new date for the Champions Tour major.
Champions Skins Game Dies; Was 11
/The two-time defending champion team of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson would have been back to defend the title and will be back in the four-team field as defending champions whenever the event resumes.
"We had Nicklaus and Watson as defending champions again," Halpin said. "A sponsor not being able to take advantage of that, I think is disappointing. They got an exemption because they were the defending champions, but who wouldn't want Nicklaus and Watson back for their event?"
Probably Jack, for starters!
Fax On Champions Tour: "This is like getting the '80s on XM Radio."
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Steve Campbell, quoting Insperity Championship leader Brad Faxon after a Saturday 65 put the Champions Tour rookie in the lead.Royal Porthcawl Gets Three Senior Open Championships
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An Open seems unlikely, so it gets the next best thing with three Senior Opens, starting in 2014, with two more guaranteed between 2015 and 2024.En-Joie Flooded
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Brad Klein reports on former B.C. Open and current Champions Tour host En-Joie Golf Course closing indefinitely due to flooding. The story includes stunning aerial photos from Ed Aswad.Look Out: Couples Playing Pain Free
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Hank Gola on Senior Players Championship leader Fred Couples saying that he's playing pain free after traveling to Germany for back treatments approved by the PGA Tour."Got a call from the tour. The Spray is officially illegal."
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I'm thinking any kind of supplement called "The ____" is probably not going to be a good thing. But deer antler spray?
Eric Adelson and Adam Watson report that Mark Calcaveccia and other Champions Tour players have had to end their ties to a deer antler spray product containing IGF-1, a growth hormone on the banned list of the World Anti-Doping Association and all major sports organizations.
“We want to give a good foundation to the Foundation."
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Mike Hlas was at Zach Johnson's first foundation fundraiser Monday and the former Masters Champ sprung a shocker on the gathered attendees.
2011 Greenbrier, U.S. Senior Open, Women's Open And Haskell Open Comment Thread
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Busy, busy, Sunday.
Caroline Masson will try to hold off Inbee Park and Meena Lee to win the Women's Open Championship at suddenly vulnerable Carnoustie.
Anthony Kim must fend off Scott Stallings, Gary Woodland and Webb Simpson to win at the Greenbrier.
Olin Browne tries to hold off Pavin, O'Meara and age shooter Hale Irwin.
Pepperdine's Jeff Gove made two eagles Saturday (video included!) and goes for his fourth career Nationwide Tour win.
And most important of all, Shackleford faces Belmont winner Ruler On Ice and the surging Coil in the $1 million Haskell at Monmouth Park.
"Inverness is not doing itself any favors. The club is trying to land the real U.S. Open, but the scores this week are a slap in the face to such a bid."
/Jim Achenbach isn't too wild about the low scoring at the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic U.S. Senior Open, but considering last week's weather, the rain and the extra time the old geezers have been spending in the gym, the vulnerability of Inverness was inevitable.
"You'll be laying in bed and you think about that 2 1/2 footer you missed and [how] it could have changed your life. I wake up in a cold sweat sometimes."
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After 36 holes Zach Johnson bagman Damon Green remains 4-under in the U.S. Senior Open and on the edge of the top 10, setting up a possible weekend run after a similar hot start in the Senior Open Championship at Walton Heath. Tway On His 86 Shot: "I don't feel a need to get in there and try to hit it."
/Bill Fields previews the U.S. Senior Open at Inverness and reminds us how tricky the greens are there, especially for old yippy geezers. And he also reports that Bob Tway has not been asked to re-create his 1986 PGA winning bunker shot:
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