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
"In America it is the other way round, they don't care how it plays as long as it looks good. As a country, we need to get back to playing golf the way it is supposed to be played."
/Two must reads on the eve of The Players: Paul Goydos, who nearly held off Sergio Garcia in the 2008 edition, is profiles
Read MoreThank God Brokaw's Not Announcing: Digest/NBC Selects Larry Giebelhausen
/The police officer won the contest to be named the whitest man in America the final contestant in the break 100 confab.
Phil Keeps White Belt Streak Going
/With a third round 75 at Quail Hollow he keeps his lousy white belt streak going and certainly padding that +1.8 white belt index.
Read MoreLehman Defends Really White Chest Bump Gone Awry
/Finally, some much needed Champions Tour controversy as Tom Lehman defends last weekend's chest-bump-gone-awry with Bernhard Langer,
Read MoreNo Truth To Rumor That Bob Hope Classic Talking To George Lopez About Sponsorship Bailout
/After all, he's in better financial shape than Chrysler.
Looks like they aren't touching the C-word after yesterday's news. For immediate release:
The Sixth Major Really, Really Wants To Move Up Two Slots
/For all of the joking about Quail Hollow's sixth major status, it sure sounds like the player raves for those Mercedes courtesy cars the wonderfully narrow course,
Read More"We’re letting them get excited about birdies instead of just watching people make a bunch of pars.”
/I didn't get to see any of the Quail Hollow Championship's opening round, but looking at the leaderboard and reading a couple of accounts about the course setup,
Read MoreOlympic Golf Movement Scores Best Endorsement Yet: Bruce Jenner Thinks It's A Bad Idea
/John Strege reports that the former Olympic great turned-Botox-gone-bad-reality-show-star says golf
Read More"There's definitely a different setup."
/Neat to see the tour setting up the sixth major at Quail Hollow in a way that helps prepare the players for next week's fifth major. Or maybe it's just part of the plan to mix things up and more importantly, play a better form of golf where accuracy is rewarded with firm greens instead of chip-out rough? Either way works.
From Jim Furyk's press session Wednesday:
We've come here a lot of times where the rough has been very deep, thick. It's been a huge premium on accuracy, and the rough is very low this year, as low as I've ever seen it and probably as low as I've seen it in almost any TOUR event I've ever played, outside of Harbour Town. It's obviously a different style.
I assume the greens are going to get very firm and quick, and it's a good golf course. I think that it'll play well in both styles. I'm anxious to see how it pans out through the week.
Q. Are you surprised to see it that way?
JIM FURYK: Well, I'm not, because we got a little heads-up in our green sheet or information sheet that the rough was going to be cut at two inches, and that kind of -- and the green speeds were targeted a little quicker than they were in the past. They were talking about possibly 13, which they're not right now, but if they get these greens firm and fast I don't think it matters if there's rough out there or not, it's going to be really difficult. But it's definitely a lot different setup than we've seen in the past.
"Here’s how you fight the economic madness devouring our civilization. You take away six burgers and a couple of pizzas."
/That's Jim McCabe's grabber of a lede. Sadly, burgers and slices are what it boiled down to for MIT's golf expenditures, yet the sport was still dropped. The story gets more infuriating when you hear the details shared by McCabe:
Read More“I didn’t see the playoff hole"
/Chad Campbell is handling his Masters defeat quite admirably, at least based on this Doug Ferguson note. After all, this can't be easy viewing even with the missing playoff:
Chad Campbell had a tough time going over some of the shots he missed on the back nine of the Masters, where he lost in a playoff, but it didn’t keep him from watching the tournament on tape.
But not the entire final round.
“I didn’t see the playoff hole,” Campbell said with a smile.
That’s probably a good thing, for he was in the middle of the 18th fairway with a 7-iron, blocked it into the bunker, blasted out to 5 feet and missed the cut to get eliminated.
It’s not like Campbell turned off the TV or turned his head. He used a digital video recorder, and well ...
“You know how it works with playoffs and stuff,” he said. “Sometimes, it doesn’t continue to record. And for some reason, it didn’t record it (the playoff). I really don’t know what happened, to be honest. My wife just told me that it didn’t get the whole thing.”
Donegan On John Daly And The PGA Tour
/Lawrence Donegan makes a case for forgiveness in light of the news that the tour is considering alcohol-related sponsorships.
What is worse for the image of professional golf: the sights and sounds of leading players cursing aloud on live TV on a regular basis, or a two-paragraph report on Daly being huckled off to the cells after another hard night on the town? This is one for the photo-finish equipment, perhaps, although not in the eyes of golf's etiquette police, who have decided that Daly's pariah status is now irreversible.
