TIGER WOODS: "He's coaching me (smiling)."

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Tiger sounded a little touchy about the Sean Foley relationship status. As if the writers didn't see their Facebook status shifting from "It's complicated" to, "In a teaching relationship."

Q. How long do you think the process of modification will take?

TIGER WOODS: Well, we'll see. It's progress. I'm making progress, I'm making steps, and just got to keep heading in the right direction.

Q. Just a quick follow-up, how different is the concept versus what Hank teaches and what Butch teaches?

TIGER WOODS: Very different.

Q. Just to clarify, how would you characterize your relationship with Sean, your working relationship?

TIGER WOODS: We're working on it.

Q. Is he your coach?

TIGER WOODS: He's coaching me (smiling).

Q. Are you paying him?

TIGER WOODS: That's none of your business.

Q. How formal, I guess, is the question.

TIGER WOODS: Well, it's none of your business, first of all.

Steve Elling was with Foley when his cell phone exploded on the news and has some new information on how the two met how the two started working together.

He stood on the driving range at Cog Hill, looking down at the screen on the device, quizzically thumbing through the assault of e-mails and text messages that began bouncing off satellites and into the contraption.

"What's this all about?" he said.

As ever, it's all about Eldrick.

Moments earlier, in his own inimitably paranoid fashion, world No. 1 Tiger Woods confirmed he has formally forged a work relationship with Foley, who coaches a half-dozen other PGA Tour players, and the news precipitated the flurry of inquiries that will soon make him the most famous Canuck in the States since Dudley Do-Right.

“I want the Ryder Cup to keep getting better and better. I want to see that brand grow."

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I poured myself a stiff drink and devoted more time to Robert Rodriguez's Avid Golfer Dallas profile of "Captainess" Lisa Pavin, which figures to become fodder for the scribes of Europe. But more importantly, we have someone dropping more B-bombs than Finchem or Bivens ever did back when the word was hip to use.
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"I have my doubts about how he will fit in on the team this year."

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Peter Oosterhuis, talking about Tiger's inclusion on this year's Ryder Cup squad.

"He should be leading the team and inspiring the team. They should be saying 'I've got Tiger on my Ryder Cup team, we're going to demolish the opposition,' and that hasn't happened."

Oosterhuis went on to say that the effect Tiger could have on the side would damage, rather than help, his teammates.

Woods has underperformed in previous Ryder Cup tournaments despite huge success on the PGA Tour.

"It is not so much about how he will play, it's the affect he will have on the team," Oosterhuis said.

"I don't think he's going to help the team. I think he's just going to muddy the waters and cause problems that they don't need.

"They need to be thinking about golf and saying 'Hey, we're a team, we're playing together and we want to beat the opposition and let's not have any static on the side."

"We don't seem to be headed the way of men's tennis, as an example, or perhaps the LPGA Tour where, on the leader boards, you are sometimes lacking in American presence."

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John Paul Newport landed a lengthy sit down with Commissioner Tim Finchem and lived to write about it. Considering it was the WSJ, I figured we'd get at least one nice bit of jargon, but instead we just got a nice jab at the LPGA. Or at least, a jab in Finchemspeak, which is merely a long, tortured sentence.
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Someone Get Padraig A European Tour Pocket Schedule, Please

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Even though he's only played twice in European Tour sanctioned non-majors this year, and even though he won three majors before deciding his swing needed changing for the worse, Padraig Harrington was selected for the Ryder Cup team over Justin Rose and Paul Casey in part for his devotion to European golf. You can sense it in this quote, after a missed cut at the Deutsche Bank.
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