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
Great idea, great cause, especially now that we're on the cusp of several exciting advances and turfgrass research, yet funding is drying up.
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Herre: I think Brad Faxon is a nice upgrade for NBC. He isn't bashful and was dissecting the shots before Johnny had a chance to open his mouth.
Dusek: Anyone who gets between Johnny Miller and a microphone is a friend of mine.
Van Sickle: I disagree. Johnny is still better than anybody else out there. I'm in favor of Faxon jumping in instead of Dan Hicks anytime, though.
Evans: Johnny Miller is the best golf analyst in the world. Period. Not always likeable but he's very good.
Gorant: I thought Faxon was a little shaky, shouting for putts to go in and talking over other people on a lot of putts. Most can be chocked up to rookie mistakes. Sure he'll get better.
Van Sickle: Definitely some nerves. I loved it when he signed off before a break by saying, "Hurry up and get back here to see what's going to happen..." or something like that. Like we were the ones going away. He'll polish his delivery through experience. He delivers a lot of knowledge and unlike the rest of the NBC crew, isn't afraid to offer an opinion before Johnny weighs in.
Shipnuck: No question Fax is an upgrade. Love his insidery knowledge. Now all he needs is a voice coach to lose that nasally accent.
Herre: No way — he's a proud New Englander.
I'm proud sad to say I haven't watched one second of Doral this week between work duties and some Zenyatta viewing yesterday, but with Ernie Els in contention the finale should be interesting. Your comments are mostly appreciated...
Just to show you how much of the CA Championship I took in, here are some notes on Tim-Finchem's contractually obligated sit-in with Dan Hicks.
- He referred to the recent "distractions" that the game has been experiencing. "Nice to get the distractions out of the way, we've had a few of them lately." Oh I don't know if we've got them all out of the way just yet!
- On the possibility of CA dropping out as sponsor at Doral: "CA is repositioning some of its marketing, either way we're going to continue our relationship." He also said the Doral event "will not have any trouble bringing in a new sponsor."
- On Tiger: "Everyone's done looking back, they're focused on when he's going to play golf." More hilariously, "That means people paid attention to what he said." Right! Then, "You saw in Ponte Vedra, the extent of the media show it will be, his people recognize that, and we'll get some good notice. If he's going to play the end of March, or early April, we'll know soon." And the icing, Tiger "has set the bar for himself and we all know what happens when he sets the bar for himself." Yes we do.
Their focus will be on the Tiger press conference in Wednesday, March 17th's season premiere.
Tom English on Tiger's inevitable return and his hiring of Ari Fleischer to help craft answers to questions:
Tiger sought to kill this issue with an angry riposte during his piece to camera last month, but this is a new world he's living in and he doesn't get to set the rules now, however much he wants to. He will be asked about Galea and he'll need to answer, from the heart, not from a page in Fleischer's dossier.
None of us knows what kind of man Tiger is going to be when he reappears, but the Fleischer connection is not going to persuade his critics that the new Woods is going to be much different from the old one.
The Orlando Sentinel continues to examine new public records in the Tiger Woods accident investigation, with several more revelations that speak to an investigation not bungled, but obstructed. Rene Stutzman reports that Elin Woods "tried to ride in the ambulance to the hospital with her husband, but the crew wouldn't let her, saying this was a case of domestic violence, the Florida Highway Patrol records show."
But the behavior of HealthCentral and state attorney Steve Foster raises the most-troubling questions:
Today's FHP records also reveal that the afternoon of the crash, FHP troopers tried to get medical records from the hospital, HealthCentral in Ocoee, that would have shown whether Woods had been drinking or was under the influence of drugs.
An emergency room nurse, however, said the records department was closed and troopers would have to come back the following Monday.
Troopers did, arriving about 7 a.m. Nov. 30, the first business day after the crash.
"The director of medical records at first stated their computer system was not working then she stated that they would not provide that information without a warrant on D-1 (Tiger Woods) regarding whether or not medical blood had been drawn," wrote FHP Cpl. Thomas DeWitt.
Two FHP captains then went to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office and asked it to subpoena Woods' medical records, but Assistant State Attorney Steve Foster said there was insufficient evidence.
The following day FHP declared its investigation over and wrote Woods the ticket.
The home security system video stuff is borderline comical. You leave it up to a defense attorney to check the tapes? And amazingly, he just couldn't get it to work!
Woods' home has four security cameras, and his lawyer, Mark NeJame, told troopers that he would provide them with video from the system, but after having problems trying to decipher it, apparently never did.
The day FHP made the request, NeJame said he tried but could not figure out how to operate the system. Five hours later, a woman from his office called troopers, saying they still couldn't figure it out but would call the next day.
The FHP paperwork makes no further mention of the video.
According to DeWitt, the trooper who wrote the report, two of the cameras should have captured at least portions of Woods' drive and crash.
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