When 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
Greg Chalmers won for the second time in Australia this year, adding to his Australian Open win with a playoff victory over Robert Allenby and Marcus Fraser.
Allenby, who hated the greens at The Lakes three weeks ago and couldn't putt the "real" greens at Royal Melbourne defended the state of his game after his opening round of the Australian PGA, as quoted in an unbylined FoxSports.com story.
If anyone knows what the final quote means, please feel free to translate.
While Allenby admitted that not winning an early match-up robbed him of some confidence, he said the end result could have been vastly different with a bit of luck.
He also admitted that the criticism of him had got under his skin.
"I guess everyone said I played poorly, but if you think about it, I played pretty good with Retief (Goosen) on the first day," he said.
"I hit a lot of great shots, but I didn't get the win.
"Everyone's making me feel like I'm playing s***."
Now where would they get that idea?! People!
Allenby said his failure to strike a blow at the Presidents Cup was not based solely on his form.
It was a team event, he said, and as such he was relying on his teammates to perform.
"Sometimes it's not you. Sometimes other people are hitting you in the shin," he said.
"I'm just sick of people saying I'm in a slump.
"Go get your own slump. This is mine."
Even better, Allenby blamed his teammates for his Presidents Cup points shutout. Mark Hayes reports:
He said Retief Goosen had missed several makeable birdie putts after "I hit it inside 10 feet a few times" in Thursday's foursomes.
He said Y.E. Yang had left him playing alone too many times in the closing nine of Friday's fourball matches.
And that Geoff Ogilvy had "hit me in the tree three times off the tee and I had to chip out three times" in Saturday's foursomes.
That's probably what prompted this Ogilvy tweet Sunday:
I've seen this no-socks with pink pants look before and I must say, Golf Digest's Mr. Style Marty Hackel wears it better. Or perhaps my view is tainted by the possibility that Marty's seen the inside of a barber shop in the last decade, unlike Webb.
Pete Iacobelli reports on Erik Compton finishing 13th on the 2011 Nationwide Tour season money list, giving the two-time heart transplant recipient PGA Tour status in 2012.
Charlie Sifford is going to be inducted into the Southern California Golf Association's Hall of Fame today and as an attendee to the event, I can only hope Sifford shares his thoughts on the folks at Augusta, as he did for Bill Plaschke in the LA Times:
Alistair Tait uses the occasion of Tom Lewis first professional win (already!) in the Portugal Masters to make an interesting prediction about the Open Championship and amateur golfers:
Rickie Fowler is an exciting player, fan friendly and really a nice guy by all accounts. Everyone wants him to do well.
John Huggan catches up with Darren Clarke a few months after his Open Championship win. He has this to say about the long putter:
I've been enjoying Paul Mahoney's reports from the Dunhill at St. Andrews (here's the Friday report on John Daly's 67, setting himself up for a spectacular implosion).
It's negativity like that which forced him to retire from the Twittersphere, reports Jason Sobel reports.
If you weren't following Simpson, his page continues on...
Paul Azinger's Tweet about his job creating prowess and the Presidents decision to play golf on his vacation got the once-a-year ESPN announcer a slap on the wrist. John Strege explains how the "discipline" was consistent with another ESPN announcer's comment about Sarah Palin. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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