I remember the good ole days when we were begging for brackets and lucky to win a dozen balls, but now there are at least three major brackets with prizes for this week's WGC Accenture Match Play.

The PGA Tour's official bracket provides a seemless registration process for newbies, and warns rather ominously: "the Accenture Match Play Championship is a volatile event with underdogs dominating the favorites more often than you would think."

Golfweek.com also offers an easy registration with a Facebook option so that you can say to your friends, I really have no life, I'm immersed in filling out Accenture Match Play brackets. Golfweek is offering a Stay and Play for 2 at La Quinta for the winner and SeeMore Putters to the 2nd-4th place finishers.

GolfChannel.com is very easy to use if you are already registered for their fantasy league, and appears to be offering the most prizes with 64 winners getting a new driver and "one Grand Prize winner will receive a trip for two to the 2015 WGC Accenture," wherever that may be.

I know we have some fantasy players out there. Which are you using? Oh, and if you've had time to look at the revitalized PGATour.com, this would be a good place to comment too. It's certainly prettier!

February 14, 2014

"It appears as though Vijay is set to win round one."

February 14, 2014/ Geoff Shackelford

Thanks to DTF for the Rob Harris

February 10, 2014

No Practice Round Access For NoTrust Open Fans

February 10, 2014/ Geoff Shackelford

I pen a short item and remembrance of practice rounds at

February 10, 2014

Motion To Dismiss Decision Due Soon In Vijay v. PGA Tour

February 10, 2014/ Geoff Shackelford

Rex Hoggard reports that Judge Eileen Branstein

February 10, 2014

Four Seasons Las Colinas Sells To Blackstone

February 10, 2014/ Geoff Shackelford

Steve Brown on the latest ownership change at the Four Seasons Resort and Club at Las Colinas, host to the Byron Nelson.

Brown writes:

Since 2010 the 431-room luxury Irving golf course hotel, conference center and spa have been owned by lenders who foreclosed on the property after previous owners defaulted on debt.

Now a company set up by Blackstone Real Estate Advisor has purchased the Four Seasons for an estimated $150 million.

New York-based Blackstone is a major U.S. real estate investor. It acquired the hotel in a private sale from CW Capital, which represented the securitized debt holders on the property.

The TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas may only host the Byron Nelson a few more years as future sponsor AT&T eyes a possible new Coore-Crenshaw design.