Don't Be Shocked If Dufner Tees Off Early Saturday

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Nice use of Twitter by Jason Dufner to lobby for a shortened Northwestern Mutual World Challenge so that the famous Auburn grad can watch the team he spoke to earlier this year play in the SEC Championship game.

And nice use of Twitter by Tiger Woods to quickly shoot down Dufner's request for an Auburn-shortened 36-hole event.

PGATour.com with all the details.

Bad news for Duf: cold temperatures make frost delays almost inevitable this week. That's not stopping him from an onslaught, later Tweeting a cryptic warning that Saturday at Sherwood could be a "Caddyshack Saturday."

Stevie Still Wants To Have A Sitdown With Tiger

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Paul Lewis of the New Zealand Herald talks to Stevie Williams about cutting back on his caddying schedule to spend more time with his cars.

And it seems that contrary to the post-Open Championship coverage of a Tiger-Stevie reconciliation because they shook hands on the last green, well…that's not enough for Stevie.

"I think Tiger and I need to sit down and have a conversation," Williams said. "That opportunity hasn't arisen yet, but that's something I'd like to do."

"Collateral Damage" Coming From The New HD Video Decision

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The governing bodies are receiving nearly universal praise for closing one loophole to armchair rulings in the HD era, and while I see what has some celebrating Decision 18-4, the blogger in me who has seen technology fly over golf cogniscenti's heads all too often, I'm not sure this is going to work out as hoped.
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English: Time To "Slap" McIlroy

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Strong stuff from Tom English as usual, this time coming to Brandel Chamblee's defense and in a bad sign for Rory McIlroy, a strong UK press attack on the young lad's rationale for exempting Tiger from criticism.

English writes:

He questioned Chamblee’s “authority” to say “anything like that” about his pal. Then this: “People wouldn’t know who Brandel Chamblee was if it wasn’t for Tiger Woods.”

At that point, you’d have to administer the slap.

Is Rory saying that anybody with reservations about Woods’ on-course behaviour this year should hush their noise because, well, he made us all and we should be eternally grateful? Is that it? Is every golf analyst to turn a blind eye because, hey, they’d be irrelevant without him? Such a lot of nonsense from McIlroy. It’s not less scrutiny that Woods needs. Quite obviously, it is more.