Chambers Bay Is Too Green On TV?
/Blaine Newnham writes about some of the match play setup touches at Chambers Bay and also notes this about the course we are seeing on television.
Read MoreWhen 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
Golfers Post The Funniest Things...Carol Mann Facebook Edition**
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Stephanie Wei posts the public Facebook comments of Carol Mann, LPGA great and World Golf Hall of Fame ambassador who may not be voting for any non-Christian hall entrants anytime soon.
Update on 2010-08-27 17:27 by Geoff
** If you took under 12 hours from the time of Wei's post for Mann to take down her thoughts, cash your tickets.
One Down, Two To Go: Atlanta Athletic Gives Up '13 NCAA's
/Some nights blogging is just so difficult, especially when the emotions take over and you have to read the painful news delivered by Sean Martin that Atlanta Athletic's crammed schedule of major professional and amateur events is one lighter after the 2013 NCAA Men's Championship was wisely yanked will be moved.
Read MoreTiger's 65 Puts Him (Still) Within Four Majors Of Tying Jack's Record!
/I couldn't help but laugh and laugh when I read an ESPN.com-edited version of Doug Ferguson's game story on Tiger's opening 65 at Ridgewood. After getting the opening pleasantries in, someone injected talk of Tiger chasing Jack Nicklaus's major record with the next major looming just seven months away!
Read MoreThe Timing Of The Elin-People Story Feels Odd...
/...because it's ingeniously timed for all involved and a brilliant media play.
A few people wrote in wondering why I and others felt the timing was odd. It's very simple. Everything to this point from Tiger's PR perspective has been terribly handled. This is the first exception. The timing was impeccable for both Tiger and Elin, and it led to his first really genuine sounding comments in some time. It also seems to have helped free up his game?
We'll Know Tiger Has Signed Up With Sean Foley When He Hits Balls Barefoot
/I know, this player-coach flirting can be a bit much, but I think we can zero in on when the Foley-Woods coupling becomes official. Robert Lusetich reports after Tiger's opening 66 at Ridgewood:
Read More"I am 180º opposed to Davis' philosophy to setting the course up 'balls to the walls' for stroke play and then ease way up for match play."
/Ron Balicki notes the watering and shortening of Chambers Bay to make it more palatable for day one of U.S. Amateur match play.
Some 700 yards were shaved off for match play, probably making a few players feel they were once again playing “normal” golf.
“And again, how the commissioner let that slide or get through is ridiculous.”
/Jeff Rude says the tour really needs to come up with a better way to deal with players missing their pro-am tee time, especially in a meaningless vital competition such as the FedExCup.
Read More"Obviously from the manufacturer's side, the reason that they pay us to use equipment and have us play their stuff is because the general public can get the same stuff that we play, for the most part."
/Kevin Streelman seems like a nice enough fellow and he's in a no-win situation getting asked about the USGA's ball testing in Canada. Still, this gives you an idea what you're dealing with in trying to educate a golf professional about the situation.
Read More"The timing of the story feels odd."
/I'm with Steve Elling on this one: People Magazine's piece on Elin Nordegren dropping today stinks, but I'm not sure exactly why. Neither is Elling, but he has his suspicions:
Read MoreMonty Calls Captain's Pick Task "Impossible" When You Set Annoying Parameters Like He Has
/Not that anyone expected him to keep his word about players who showed up at this week's Johnnie Walker event at Gleneagles, but it's the sentiment that counts, Monty!
Read MoreFuryk Out Of Playoffs With Partially Dislocated Cell Phone Power Sprain
/Who uses a cell phone as their only alarm? Oh right, your former No. 3 playoff seed, Jim Furyk.
You think Fluff's doing a little muttering today?
In related news, Dustin Johnson is preparing a thank you note for Furyk.
So Much For Elin Signing A Binding, Comprehensive, All-Inclusive Non-Disclosure Agreement!**
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People has the exclusive first and purportedly last interview with Elin Nordegren that hits newsstands Friday.
In 19 hours over four visits to her Windermere, Fla., rental home, Nordegren shared never-before-seen personal photographs and opened up to PEOPLE about the emotional roller coaster she's been on, her life as a mother to Sam, 3, and Charlie, 19 months, and her hopes for the future.
"My immediate plan is for the kids and me to continue to adjust to our new situation. I am going to keep taking classes, but my main focus is to try to give myself time to heal," she says.
She tells the magazine this was her first – and last – interview, as she intends to remain a private person.
Update on 2010-08-25 14:47 by Geoff
**More details from the AP and Doug Ferguson include Elin denying she ever hit Tiger ("I did everything I could to get him out of the locked car. To think anything else is absolutely wrong") and that her people approached People. There was also this imagery from Ridgewood:
Shortly before 8 a.m. ET, when the People magazine story broke, his agent, Mark Steinberg, stepped outside the ropes of the first fairway and was on the phone for the next 10 minutes, as was Woods' spokesman, Glenn Greenspan.
Tiger Wins Web Award Categories Only Tim Finchem Could Love
/Oddly, TigerWoods.com did not win for Breaking News even though it broke its fair share in 2010. However, check out these categories in the SportBusiness Group's annual Ultimate Sports Websites Awards.
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