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
If We Could Just Get Tiger To Add An Event...
/....ya, that's the ticket!
In a Golf World Monday item on the Tiger accident anniversary, Ron Sirak reports that Camp Ponte Vedra and specifically Tim Finchem are feeling the pressure to get ratings up in early 2011 as they head into television contract negotiations. Part of the grand plan is to beg Tiger to add a west coast event.
Saban And The Golf Channel
/I'm so glad I don't live in Tuscaloosa to hear Nick Saban yammer every day. But it was nice that he threw in a jab that included the Golf Channel for no apparent reason. What follows from the in-studio team at Golf Channel will not be remembered as one of the supreme moments in humor history.
Honest Assessments Of The Race To Dubai Forthcoming? **
/The UK writers have feasted on Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy's rejection of the PGA Tour and eagerly await Martin Kaymer's decision as another nail in the American tour's demise.
Read MoreCommissioner-Bashing Free Zone?
/The always entertaining Mark Heisler tackles the NBA's crackdown on complaining in this week's L.A. Times NBA column and dropped this juicy little item:
Read MoreFate Of Fortune Brands Should Be Known In A Month
/According to the Financial Times, "activist" hedge funder William Ackman has been given a month to propose changes to the board and therefore, the possible breakup of conglomerate Fortune Brands and its Acushnet golf division.
Read MoreCell Phones Allowed: PGA Tour Hopes To Make Fans Less Disconnected
/Golf Channel's Steve Sands is reporting a change in the PGA Tour cell phone policy for 2011. The GolfChannel.com item notes it this way:
Read More"What it is that we, the public, really want from Mr. Woods at this point."
/John Paul Newport raises a fair question about Tiger's PR surge.
Read MoreCondi On USGA Fast Track?
/Jim Achenbach reports that Condoleeza Rice will be on the 2012 USGA Nominating Committee and may be on the fast track to the Executive Committee.
Read More"The ability of a big hedge fund to get several hours alone with a corporate executive on a golf course reveals the great information disparity that exists between ordinary investors and the savviest of traders."
/Matthew Goldstein gives people more reason to love golf, profiling golf-pro-to-the-hedge-fund-stars Sam Evans, who brokers rounds at elite courses for hedge funders and other corporate tycoons. Warning, this is mildly painful reading.
Read MoreWho Killed Designated Tournaments?
/Not surprisingly, the reviews are in and they aren't pretty: no one can figure how a simple, common sense proposal to help struggling PGA Tour stops attract a few more top players died after no significant opposition.
Read MoreGMac In Singapore Airport Meltdown Over U.S. Open Trophy Surcharge
/Apparently Cathay Pacific Airlines has a thing against U.S. Open trophies.
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