Palm Beach Overtakes Orlando As The New De Facto Tax Friendly Home Of PGA Tour Elite
/Michael Bamberger in this week's SI Golf Plus
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
Klauk On Seizures: "In a way I was lucky."
/PGA Tour pro and son of longtime TPC Sawgrass superintendent Jeff Klauk with a revealing and emotional contribution to this week's SI Golf Plus about his grand mal seizures. He's got a remarkably optmistic tone considering how health problems have sidetracked his promising career.
Read MoreAzinger's Increasingly Strange Tweeting Habits
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Deadspin compiled Paul Azinger's increasingly bizarre Twitter ranting following the sudden passing of Andrew Breitbart Thursday and it's becoming clear why the best television commentator in golf is not getting work.
NASCAR Says No To Bubba's Confederate Flag Car
/Let me repeat that...NASCAR, aka Neckcar, found the image of Bubba Watson's Confederate flag-adorned General Lee car in appropriate for an appearance at the Sprint Cup Series race in Phoenix.
Read MorePGA Tour YouTube Exclusive: "Aaron Baddeley Goes to Church"
/Good to see Bubba questioning Aaron about "taking a hit."
Mum To Wee Lee: Wash Your Mouth Out!
/Thanks to reader Chris for the unbylined Golf365 report on Lee Westwood coping with having been caught uttering a profanity on television last weekend.
Read MoreThese Guys Are So Sponsor Friendly They'll Even Don Lederhosen
/Thanks to reader Tim for monitoring SI's Tumblr feed and catching this mildly disturbing Stuart Franklin Getty image posted today of Dustin Johnson at the player party during the 2011 BMW International Open. I'm thinking his lower leg injury issues could date to trying to slip those pants on over his knee?
Read MoreAiken Billing Rhino Saving Campaign, Needs To Start With His Golfing Countryman!
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An unbylined IOL Sapa report reveals that South African Thomas Aiken, second in this week's Volvo Golf Champions event at the Links at Fancourt, is wearing a rhino on his hat as part of his effort to prevent rhinos in his country from being hunted into extinction."The unanimity of their voice was powerful and absolutely worthy of mass scrutiny."
/Steve Elling takes a closer look at the Golf World PGA Tour Player Course Ranking project, talks to yours truly, and offers his thoughts after reading all 9000 words in his issue of the magazine.
Read MoreSergio Has A Lot To Learn From Baghdatis' Blow Up
/I feel bad having suggested that Sergio Garcia's Tommy Bolt impersonation was unique in the anals of athlete tantrums, but after watching Marcos Baghdatis's blow up in the Australian Open, perhaps Sergio has a lot to learn.
Read MoreCompton: "I'm just a regular guy, and I look like a regular guy."
/Erik Compton got his first PGA Tour start as a card-holding member out of the way at the Sony Open and his story never gets old. Doug Ferguson catches up with the two-time heart transplant recipient about life as a full-time PGA Tour member and he's looking forward to the day he just gets asked about his favorite episode of Lost and whatever else Kelly T. comes up with!
Read More"Thompsons reveal family secret"
/Randall Mell with an extensive feature on the Thompson's family secret. Good read about tragedy, love and family. Carve out a few minutes for this one.
Read MoreOgilvy: "The quality of the courses is so much more important than the powers-that-be seem to think."
/To accompany Golf World's PGA Tour course ranking project, contributor Geoff Ogilvy penned a column sharing his thoughts on the ranking, players as architecture critics and the important role good design plays in shaping our perception of tournament golf.
Read MoreSergio's Sweaty Palm Syndrome Subsides: Able To Double Up In PokerStars Caribbean Adventure!
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Thanks to reader Mike for this account of Sergio Garcia's poker playing prowess.
David Peters made it 20,000 to go on the button before Sergio Garcia pulled out his driver from the big blind and mashed all of his chips into the middle. He was all in for 114,000 and Peters made the call.
The flop kept Garcia in the lead when the fell. No ace or jack came on the turn when the landed, but even that card helped Peters a little bit as it added him some outs to a gutshot. Needing an ace, jack or deuce, Peters couldn't find what he needed when the fell and Garcia was able to double up.
This should settle any questions about the health of his right wrist heading into 2012. As you may recall, Garcia recently set a record for longest one or two-handed club toss into a lake by a non-winner of a major. I think it deserves another look, don't you?
Phil Signs Off On Butch's New Pupil
/Brian Wacker reports on the first day of Gary Woodland's life after Randy Smith fired the lad and it seems Butch Harmon got the "OK" of his prized pupils before adding Woodland to his stable.
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