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
"Bad dates doomed Turning Stone tourney"
/Eventually the details behind the Turning Stone event's abrupt departure would be revealed and Chris Wagner reports on CEO Ray Halbritter's stance.
Halbritter hinted as much Friday when he explained the reasons he was opting out of the tournament contract after four years. Saddled with sketchy fall-weather dates the first three years and an opposite-field, time-share date this year, Turning Stone’s CEO spelled out his requirements to the PGA Tour: Provide a stand-alone date in either June, July or August — two weeks before or after a major — or the contract was over.
That made it essentially a choice between Greenbrier or Turning Stone and the tour went with Greenbrier, seemingly a great idea at the time. However, the more we read about Jim Justice's lawsuit issues, including the latest news of Lester George adding to his complaint, the less glamorous the place looks.
Tiger, Westwood Driving Range Tension Palpable Over No. 1 Ranking
/James Corrigan with the spellbinding, tense and frankly, emotional moment when the former No. 1 saw the new No. 1 in China.
Read More“To become No. 1 you have to win and win a lot to maintain it. That’s the way it goes.”
/That's Tiger sounding the least beat concerned about losing the No. 1 world ranking. It helps when you've won 14 majors.
“As far as the world ranking is concerned, yes, I’m not ranked No. 1 in the world,” Woods said Monday. “In order to do that you have to win and I didn’t win this year.”
Though I'm not sure this has proven to be accurate, but we'll chalk it up to Tiger sticking to diplomacy:
“As far as the emotions go, it is what it is,” Woods said. “To become No. 1 you have to win and win a lot to maintain it. That’s the way it goes.”
Lee Westwood won once this year at Memphis. Martin Kaymer has won four times, including a major.
Greenbrier: The Flower Beds Were Toxic!
/Jim Justice is countersuing in between explaining why some lien-filing contractors will get paid and back surgery.
Read More"It's the difference in lobster tail and hot dogs."
/It's hard to argue against Shane Bacon's assertion that the Fall Finish is more interesting than the FedExCup.
Read MoreSI/golf.com Breathlessly Rushes To AK's Defense... For Now! ****
/First there was Alan Shipnuck's story containing a few flimsy denials from Anthony Kim about his Vegas fun and then this from the golf.com roundtable:
Read MoreAnother Sunday, Another Fantastic Fall Finish Finale
/I'm sure the shock of Jonathan Byrd's hole in one stemmed not from the darkness and not that there were five people around the green. That's including the Golf Channel cameramen.
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 More"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 More"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?
"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 MoreTiger Back To Dodging Softballs And Battling Presser Insomnia
/My invitation to the Tiger Woods conference call for his tournament at Sherwood was once again lost in cyberspace, but who needs pesky bloggers when you can get intelligent questions like this?
Read More"Do you believe what just happened out there? I have a job again."
/Classic finish to today's Frys.com event today, classic post round remarks by champion Rocco (as always) and classic call by Oosterhuis in advance of Rocco's fourth (!?) hole-out of the week.
The video does not include epic shots by Alex Prugh, Bo Van Pelt and Rickie Fowler driving the green at the same hole.
