57!
/Dan Mirocha has the details on Bobby Wyatt's incredible stupefying 57 in the Alabama Junior.
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
Isner, Mahut And The Power Game
/The Tennis Channel offered a replay of the final five games of the for-the-ages Isner-Mahut 60-58 final set, followed by a discussion between Bill Macatee, Martina Navratilova, and Jimmy Connors.
Read MoreWatch The Villages Golf Cart Drill Team Perform!
/There's no truth to the rumor that they're looking for Jack Nicklaus to dote the i in Villages. It must be nice to have this much free time on one's hands...
Read MoreJohn Wooden, R.I.P.
/He didn't play much golf later in his life, but as we learned last year Coach Wooden accomplished an incredibly rare feat during his Indiana golfing days.
Cliff Schrock interviewed the Coach for the April, 2010 Golf Digest. And I can attest to his fascination with the game, as he always asked about my game and I know from one chat that he was particularly fascinated by Tiger Woods.
The lengthy L.A. Times obituary by Bill Dwyre and David Wharton is here.**
**This was the only way to read the remarkable piece of work by Dwyre and Wharton for many LA Times subscribers since Wooden passed away at 6:30 p.m., past the printing deadline for the Times, which has to make room on its own presses for the Saturday Wall Street Journal printing.
"I must ’ave woken up with 300 mosquito bites the next day.”
/Thanks to reader Phillip for Tom Cox's Financial Times story on K.K. Downing of Judas Priest fame owning his own golf course. Plenty of fun anecdotes, including this one:
Read More"That's a 'silent boycott' that's hard to measure."
/Thomas Dunne says there's early evidence of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigration impacting the state's golf tourism business.
Read More"They wait until they are by themselves trudging through the rough and dump a healthy portion of the ball."
/I couldn't help but wonder about the caddies at Hamilton Farm after Bill Pennington shared this bit of advice from them in today's NY Times:
Read More"I think Tiger Woods has helped to broaden that, in the sense that he's brought golf to a lot of the cities."
/Tea Party victor in the Kentucky Republican Senate primary Rand Paul was asked about hosting his victory celebration at a country club on Good Morning America (thanks reader, Rick).
What Are "Team Activities" Anyway?
/Whenever I think the PGA Tour is taking itself a bit too seriously, there's always the NFL to remind you how ridiculous a sports league can get if it reads to many of its own clippings.
Read More"Without question the best golf story of my life.”
/Barbara Rybolt with maybe the best golf-can-be-good-for-the-environment story of all time after a church group member playing Lighthouse Sound Golf Course in Maryland spotted a stranded whale and helped free the lucky mammal from a sandbar.
Read MoreMark O'Meara Doesn't Make List Of Favorite Irish Golfers
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Tom Cunneff lists his favorite Irish golfers...from the Republic. Not from southern California.
Alert To Desert Golfers: Watch Those Jumping Cholla
/Since the PGA Tour is in the middle of its Arizona swing, a reader sent this recent shot in and taken by a friend. Morale of this story...it might be better to just accept the ball as lost and concede the hole. Something to remember WGC Match Play semi-finalists!
Read More"The golf ball was found when the undertakers made an incision in the upper chest and neck area during the embalming."
/Blogging has opened my eyes to many things, but none moreso than the sheer number of deaths caused by cart accidents, golf club bludgeonings and other other assorted golf related deaths. But the investigation launched after a Dublin businessman's post-mortem turned up a golf ball in the throat, qualifies as a first. Cormac Byrne reports.
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