Crenshaw's Fellow Player-Architects Compliment Colorado Golf Club...

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...but is it me, or does it sound like it's killing them to pay a compliment to this week's Senior PGA host site?

"It's a good test," said Watson, who also designs courses. "It has great variety to it. There's plenty of room (in landing areas), and yet there's some toughness that you have to worry about. . . . That's the way golf should be played."

After playing Colorado Golf Club for the first time, Tom Kite said it's worthy of hosting a major championship.

"The golf course is going to stand up very well to the players. It's very difficult," Kite said. "There's a lot to know. We're going to have to kind of fly by the seat of our pants to learn the golf course as we go."

With the thin air, and depending on the wind and slope of the terrain, a shot that normally would require 180 yards might be 220 or 130, said Bernhard Langer, who already has won twice on the 2010 Champions Tour.

"It's kind of crazy," he said, "and then you have to figure how much the ball is going to run when it hits. But it's a great golf course, great layout, beautiful scenery. And some interesting design work."

"There quite possibly wouldn't be drug testing on the PGA Tour if Woods hadn't backed the notion."

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Steve Elling suggests that the initial revelations from the Anthony Galea charges would seem to suggest that even though Galea wasn't licensed to Florida and Tiger's shaded the truth fairly consistently in the last year, it's still hard to imagine Woods using performance-enhancing drugs.
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The Annual DNF, NR, SCR Watch

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It was the Europeans who pioneered the art of difficulty in finishing the 36-hole international U.S. Open qualifier, but not to be outdone are the PGA Tour players handed an easy qualifying opportunity into the Open Championship, yet still just can't get through 36.

Stephanie Wei spotlights another reminder that even when you make it easy for the world's great golfers to qualify, they still show a little disrespect.

There were also nine WD's from yesterday's Japanese U.S. Open qualifier but zero listed for the European edition.

Groove Rule Changes Ushers In Youth Movement!

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Jason Day wins at 22 as Jordan Spieth contends at 16, just weeks after Rory McIlroy wins the ninth major and Ryo Ishikawa shoots 58 to win on the Asian Tour. Just as we predicted, reverting back to grooves reacting like late 80s non-PING's has really swung the advantage to the scrappy vet....err...guys who weren't born until after the Reagan Administration?
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Els Unravels Over Wentworth Criticism

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Even though there had been advance buzz that Wentworth was looking radically different, and even though the owner admitted he goofed in overruling his player-architect, and even though there was widespread media criticism of the course changes, Ernie Els lashed out at his fellow players for not keeping their opinions to themselves.  Lawrence Donegan reports:
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