New Rule...

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Click to enlarge at your own risk...with apologies to Bill Maher--no course can host a major event or be eligible for a ranking if they have fake swans in their lakes.

Some of you may have noticed during Solheim Cup play that the lake swans at Rich Harvest Farms never moved.

Yes I know, they're more discreet than fountains, and I do appreciate a sense of humor sometimes, but if you have to put phony wildlife on your golf course to spruce things up, you are not a real golf course.

"Not a single player I spoke with after the Olympic announcement was made thinks the limited-field, individual stroke play event was a very creative or inviting idea."

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Most of you know that I've written here and in Golf World's Bunker about the Olympic golf idea is failing to generate excitement because it essentially adds another World Golf Championship event to the schedule. Another bland, 72-hole stroke play event that a sport rich with alternative formats, does not need.
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"The coarse language and club acrobatics aren't anything we don't hear and see on courses every day."

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Jim Frank pens an excellent SI My Shot defense of Tiger Woods's on course antics.

But this was Tiger Woods, who is supposed to set an example, especially for children. And this is golf, the "gentleman's game," in which virtue is supposed to trump vitriol.

Well, I've got two words for you, and they're not "you're away." Get real! If Tiger wants to go ballistic and wax scatological, let him.

There is nothing golf needs more now than emotion, and Woods is one of the only players who ever shows any. (Lucas Glover, anyone?) The man is a pro with millions in the bank, and the fire in his belly — plus the steam coming out of his ears and the vulgarities from his mouth — show that he cares about more than cashing checks, which can't be said of everyone carrying a PGA Tour card.