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
"Hogan told Harvey Penick that Titanic was the best shot maker that he had ever seen."
/I have some author Q&A's lined up in the coming weeks but I don't need to bug Kevin Cook now that Farrell Evans has filed a super interview with the former Golf Magazine editor whose new book on Titanic Thompson is coming out.
Read MoreKodak Challenge May Serve Useful Purpose After All
/Jim McCabe explains that Rickie Fowler may add the Disney stop and much needed star power to the tournament if he has a chance to win the $1 million Kodak Challenge.
Read MoreLas Vegas, Attendance And The PGA Tour
/Ron Kantowski says one of the things holding the Las Vegas stop back from a FedExCup slot is its paltry attendance. Surely it's not because of a lack of hard work and devotion from host Justin Timberlake who deserves a better date than October.
Read MoreMonty Cheats...Death In Car Accident; IMG Lays Groundwork For BMW Sponsorship
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The Daily Record has all of the details of Monty's car A80 accident.
A shaken Monty said: "I was driving through road works when a van travelling towards me suddenly burst through the cones and slammed into me.
"A fraction of a second later my car was hit by a lorry and another car as well and I began spinning out of control.
"I was trapped as the side of the car was compressed and the air bags were holding me back - but the passenger door suddenly opened and I was pulled to safety thanks to other drivers who had witnessed the accident.
Wow, those are some strong people! I mean, emotionally, to gather themselves and help such a large, err...significant man out in a time of need.
"It was a terrible shock and I am lucky to have come out of it relatively unscathed - thanks I am sure to the car I was driving."
Well it's good that he has such a sturdy car, since after all, he does have a bit of history with speeding and a suspended license.
A spokesman for the golfer said: "Colin Montgomerie suffered shock and severe bruising to his left side after his BMW 7 series was struck by a transit van that swerved across the road into the path of his car.
Chop, chop Guy Kinnings, get Munich on the line. The synergy here is too good to be true!
"Anthony Kim is an animal 115 bottles then to top it off a 25k bottle of Dom, which he showered the dance floor with..."
/After Anthony Kim's efforts to be the next John Daly WD from this week's Justin Timberlake event in Vegas, Steve Beslow at golf.com follows up on the Las Vegas Review Journal report with details of Kim's thumb injury and extensive quotes from IMG that you want to check out if searching for a warm chuckle to start the day.
Read MoreLook Out Jack And Annika: Shark And Ochoa Issue Press Release With Olympic Design In Sight!
/I don't know about you, but they do skew a lot younger than Jack and Annika, the other previously announced Olympic design wannabes!
Read More"If the committee decides it's going to be me as the next captain, I need to talk with them beforehand to see how we can solve the possible inconvenience that I may not be on the Tour playing that much."
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You have to love Jose Maria Olazabal's honesty about his health and prospects to serve as 2012 European Ryder Cup captain if asked."I thought I was going to be fine, but I got the first question thrown at me and I was trying to think."
/I'm a little behind in my reading and just got to Jason Sobel's engaging Q&A with Hunter Mahan about the Ryder Cup and his post-round emotions.
Read More"It's all still there."
/Ron Green Jr. visits with Ben Crenshaw during the Pinehurst No. 2 rehab.
"You may get a great lie or be up against a pine cone or against wire grass," Crenshaw says. "You wonder why Ross was so enamored with what he saw. It's just sandy, impoverished soil but it's ideal for golf."
The fairways are wide and follow the original lines created by Ross. More than half the sprinkler heads have been removed at No.2, leaving the restored natural areas to take what the weather gives them.
There is an art to bringing back the natural look of No.2. Crenshaw stands in a sandy area, recently cleared and now being cultivated. He talks about the fun of placing clumps of wiregrass so that there's no pattern to it, spreading them like the wind might, and the options that will evolve over time when weather and fallen pine needles fill in off the fairways.
Green also talks on this video about what he's seeing, allowing us to get a glimpse of the work behind him.
"He is one loose cannon."
/What happens in Vegas...ends up in the newspaper!
Thanks to reader NRH for Norm's Las Vegas Journal-Review item on Anthony Kim continuing his image rehab at the Bellagio during this week's tour stop.
"He is one loose cannon," said a dealer, who said Kim may have set a personal record for F-bombs while playing high-stakes craps over the weekend.
Maybe it was the heartbreak of not securing a European Tour card for 2011?
"To play two links courses in succession just might too much for some players."
/I've been pondering the quote of Johan Edfors all day as I have in the past when today's Vardon's suggest that links golf is not something their precious swings can handle for more than a week at a time.
Read More"As part of the suit, the plaintiffs filled a notice of mechanic’s lien against the resort hotel."
/Wondering if the whole Greenbrier success story has been a little too good to be true now that Brad Klein reports they are being sued for unpaid bills to a golf course contractor?
Read More"Just seven years ago, 11 Tour events were sponsored by automotive companies, or more than one in three Tour events with a title sponsor."
/Adam Schupak on Hyundai looking like the new sponsor at Kapalua, noted this about car companies as PGA Tour sponsors...
Read More"How do you keep your boys down on the farm, now that they've seen Moline?"
/Mike Purkey says the European Tour should insist its Ryder Cup wannabes play at least half their schedule in Europe to strengthen the European Tour and tell us just how much some players really love the Cup. As if they aren't bickering amongst themselves enough already!
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