Turning Stone Championship, RIP
/It'll be interesting to read the analysis and post-mortem of this...
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
PGA Tour Set To Take GM's Dirty, Grubby Government Money!
/Michael Smith reports on this clear and obvious move to the dark...red side for the PGA Tour, taking back a longtime sponsor that is only around because of--don't say, don't say it--that non-Republican American in the White House!
Read More“Next year when we go there, if it's not good, it'll get beat up because the other one was so good."
/Richard Oliver details the textbook PGA Tour move from classy old course near a population base to a new TPC course away from civilization. In this case it's the Champions Tour's 2011 AT&T Championship moving from classy old Oak Hills after this week, in favor of a new Pete Dye design outside of town at the TPC San Antonio. The players are besides themselves, but of course, they'll show up no matter where the suits send them.
Read More"Bearing more guilt is IMG, Kim’s management company, which in return for its commission concocts shore stories to hide unpalatable truths."
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Tough words from Robert Lusetich aimed at the PGA Tour and IMG for their "enabling" of Anthony
It’s his life and if he wants to piss it away with all that money Nike gave him last year, then so be it. He’s only really hurting himself.
But what I object to, in advance, is the inevitable in-depth profile that is bound to appear in some publication of note on the heels of this latest debacle claiming that Kim’s had another come-to-Jesus moment. That he’s suddenly re-dedicated himself to his game and has seen the error of his ways.
These fairytales have appeared throughout his career and I’m calling B.S. right now on the next one. So, please, IMG, spare us the heartfelt story of how AK’s grown up and come to see that he’s throwing away a very special talent.
Until he has.
"Just seven years ago, 11 Tour events were sponsored by automotive companies, or more than one in three Tour events with a title sponsor."
/Adam Schupak on Hyundai looking like the new sponsor at Kapalua, noted this about car companies as PGA Tour sponsors...
Read More“And frankly, all they do is market slow play.”
/In Gene Yasuda's look at the dire state of the golf industry, industry consultant Stuart Lindsay suggested that the PGA Tour deserves great blame for slow play.
“Currently, the Detroit Golf Club is doing due diligence with regard to a PGA Tour event for the fall of 2011."
/Lynn Henning reports that Detroit Golf Club is pursuing a PGA Tour event and presumably, the tour is interested in returning to Detroit.
“Currently, the Detroit Golf Club is doing due diligence with regard to a PGA Tour event for the fall of 2011,” said Flood,
PGA Tour Lighter One C-Level Salary; And One Less Finchem Heir
/Garry Smits reports on Rick George, PGA Tour operations chief and the best Tim Finchem suit bag carrier I've ever seen, leaving to take the COO job with the Texas Rangers.
Read MoreG-Mac Takes PGA Tour Card; Euro Hero Status To Plunge?
/But we will welcome the U.S. Open Champion with open arms!
Read MoreFinchem Predicts Global, FIFA-type Platform Integration Of Tours To Capitalize On Multinational Corporate Movements
/Doug Ferguson reports that Commissioner Finchem, still drying out from his Ryder Cup first tee duties, is predicting that a "world tour" is in golf's future.
Read MoreCamilo Has To Get Fined For This!
/If nothing else, because all of the VP wives in Ponte Vedra will buy an issue and then subject their doughy husbands to questions about why they aren't in the gym more often.
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Third Tweet Is The Charm!
/On Tuesday PGA Tour Commish Tim Finchem talked about accelerating the retirements of some folks on communications staff who, unlike the "new talent," probably would have Tweeted HOF inductee Jock Hutchison's name correctly the first time.
Read MoreFinchem On Cume Audiences, Brand Interweaving And Striking Distance Retirement Acceleration
/Ah, I remember when the ASAP folks called Tim Finchem's latest b-speak favorite cum audience. But after fifteen internal meetings and one memo I'd sure love to read, the latest buzzword is now cume audience. For the life of me, I don't know why they tweaked it, but boy were those cume audiences the topic of the day at East Lake when the Commissioner sat down with the slingers to talk about the state of the tour.
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