More Rankings Comedy: Woods Just Needs To Make Appearance In Next Three Weeks To Retain Top Spot
/James Corrigan on the chances of Martin Kaymer vaulting to the top spot, as well as how Tiger can retain the No. 1 position.
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
Date Set For Westwood's Takeover Of No. 1 Spot Giving Further Credence To Fears World Ranking Is A Farce
/From SI/golf.com's always fun weekly roundtable, especially when they sit inside watching golf telecasts so I don't to:
Read More“We’ll recommend another 80 rooms to the next owners.”
/Sad to say I didn't catch a minute of the McGladrey Classic Sunday but I did enjoy the shower-inducing Q&A Matty G has posted with point-misser extraordinaire Bill Jones III, the dude who ran Sea Island into bankruptcy in pursuit of five-star status.
Read More"A prospective captain couldn't have put it better."
/Dermot Gilleece catches up with Paul McGinley, likely 2014 Ryder Cup Captain and 2010 assistant Captain who shares some behind-the-scenes moments from last week's Cup. There's the inevitable stuff that Captain Monty could have been one of Churchill's generals if he'd just been born a few decades earlier.
But this was fun:
"Why they can't find some back tees on the Kings course and play the Ryder Cup there. If you're playing match play, you don't need a course 7,500-yards long."
/Lots of intriguing remarks from Darren Clarke following the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. Two that stood out:
Read More“Currently, the Detroit Golf Club is doing due diligence with regard to a PGA Tour event for the fall of 2011."
/Lynn Henning reports that Detroit Golf Club is pursuing a PGA Tour event and presumably, the tour is interested in returning to Detroit.
“Currently, the Detroit Golf Club is doing due diligence with regard to a PGA Tour event for the fall of 2011,” said Flood,
Sea Island Auction Looms As Tour Event Is Played Before Invisible Gallery
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One reader likened it to a "club invitational-sized" crowd for the McGladrey Classic. I thought that was kind. But they certainly do seem to be sticking to their 7500-a-day gallery limit!
Meanwhile, Monday is auction day for Sea Island, as J. Scott Trubey reports. Just all around good vibes!
After two years of doubt, a measure of clarity should come Monday for Sea Island in the form of a bankruptcy auction.
The remaining assets of the bankrupt Sea Island Co. — the five-star Cloister and Lodge hotels and four celebrated golf courses among them— will be sold to the highest bidder at the headquarters of Atlanta law firm King & Spalding.
Walter Driver's old stomping grounds where diversity makes for prime Awkward Family Photos material!
But an auction is required by bankruptcy law, and a competing group of bidders has brought drama to a community known more for tranquil marshes, elegant hotels and plush service.
“We’ll be holding our breaths on Monday,” said Jane Fraser, a Sea Island member and resident.
The partnership of Oaktree Capital Management and Avenue Capital Group won a lengthy bid process to acquire the storied resort for $197.5 million. Its offer, known as a “stalking horse bid,” is said to honor Sea Island memberships, keep Sea Island’s 1,400 employees and retain Sea Island Co. scion A.W. “Bill” Jones III as chairman and CEO.
A competing team made up of Starwood Capital and Anschutz Entertainment is also cleared to bid at Monday’s auction.
Westwood Reinjury Means He Might Shut It Down, Squelching Hopes Of Writers Eyeing World No. 1 Takeover Stories
/Oh but it's not all bad news, because it is, after all, the Official World Golf Ranking where sense was long ago abandoned.
Read MoreKostis Taking On The Guardian!
/Peter Kostis is shocked, shocked the UK papers would feast on Captain Pavin's enlisting of Major Dan Rooney to rev up the troops...err...American Ryder Cup team.
Read More"This time of year people are not thinking about golf."
/Don Markus is already branding The Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship's free ticket concept dead on arrival after day one, but considering that the PGA event looked just as poorly attended and you have empty seats at MLB playoff games, it'd be a shame to write the idea off just yet.
Read More"If Gallacher has popped off like this to Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods, what would have happened next?"
/Steve Elling gets a statement out of BBC on Bernard Gallacher injecting himself into Jeff Overton's Ryder Cup match, and pretty much picks it apart.
Read MorePasatiempo Is A Goat Track
/I wonder why more courses with invasive grasses gone wild don't do what Pasatiempo is doing? Kimbery White explains how they've brought in goats to gobble up weeds in sensitive and hard to reach locations. Thanks to reader Robert for this.
Read More"It's disgusting, and I'm pissed off."
/It's hard to imagine that all of the animosity directed at golf in San Francisco is not somehow to blame for the recent vandalism incidents at sweet, harmless Golden Gate Park, a gem of a par-3 course that should not be blamed for whatever ills the extremist environmentalists think Sharp Park brings to our planet.
Read MoreImagine The Odds...
/...of the PGA Tour's pairing computer lumping three Sea Island residents and arguably the biggest draws at the McGladrey Classic this week?
Read More“I definitely want to be a captain."
/A few readers forwarded Michael Buteau's story on Davis Love lobbying for the Ryder Cup captaincy in 2012 and initially I didn't pay much attention, but on further reflection, it is a bit odd that the man who seemed to be a lock for the job is making sure to keep his name out there. Could the PGA be flirting with a certain former captain who really wanted the job again in 2010?
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