Tiger Shows Sergio The Proper Way To Hock A Loogie**

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From Dubai earlier today (postd by kafka01), while playing with Sergio Garcia, who once so infamously dropped a loogie in a cup.

In the video, note the head rotation Tiger demonstrates as he turns to his right and lofts, with admirable trajectory, a healthy dosage of saliva. I think this could indicate the microfiber issue with is neck is improving, giving the PGA Tour hope for a more lucrative television contract.

"Is strange that it has taken so long for wee Timmy to catch on to the obvious benefits."

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Thursday's Woods-Kaymer-Westwood pairing came as little surprise to the Euro press, but to us it's still a shocker considering we're only a few weeks into storyline pairings on the PGA Tour. Steve Elling and John Huggan kick this and other stuff around on the eve of the Pebble Beach and Dubai events.
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"THERE ARE NO BUNKERS ON THIS COURSE"

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Nice reporting by Paul Casey to Tweet this week's Euro Tour declaration at the Royal Golf Club of Bahrain.

However, as Steve Elling notes on Casey's reporting and the likelihood he snapped the shot in the locker room, it's "where most players doubtlessly ignored it."

Has anyone played this Monty-design who can tell us why they would make this move?

"Professional golfers sitting in judgment on fellow professional golfers is just plain wrong, never mind illegal."

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John Huggan offers a final word on the Eliot Saltman cheating hearing and suggests that the European Tour may be in for a losing legal battle now that Saltman is fighting back. This fact wasn't lost on the player committee that voted on his 3 month ban.
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USGA To Re-Open Discussions About Rule On Scorecard DQ's

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First we learned the R&A is open to revisiting the scenario of disqualifications for signing incorrect cards that, at the time players signed them were not incorrect. Now, Mike Davis, Senior Director of Rules and Competitions, confirms to the USGA is "absolutely going to reopen" discussions with the R&A. The Padraig Harrington situation was the final straw.

"We're all bothered by what is a narrow set of circumstances where someone can get the facts right and still be disqualified. In Harrington's situation, he thought ball was replaced and only television is telling us otherwise. He knew the rules, he thought he did everything right, he just didn't know all the facts. So the USGA and R&A will open it up again, but we also have to make sure we don't do something that has domino effect."

Davis was speaking after just returning from R&A meetings in St. Andrews and said emails have already been exchanged between the USGA and R&A on ways to remedy the rule without creating unintended consequences, such as allowing players off the hook for not knowing the rules. Which was not the case in the Harrington scenario.