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
As Larry Bohannan writes, "And what about a sponsor?"
That and a long list of questions will hound the PGA Tour's pursuit of its very own original idea to pursue Bill Clinton for a Bob Hope Classic partnership.
My questions:
Not to go all Caroline Wozniacki on you here, but I'll be sitting in on Tiger's Wednesday presser at Torrey Pines and you can already envision the opening moments after getting passed by HSBC winner Martin Kaymer.
Q: Tiger, Martin Kaymer has just passed you in the World Rankings and you are No. 3, he is No. 2. Does this inspire you to play better?
TW: I'm really happy for MarKay, he's a great guy and has worked really hard to get to this point. What was the second part?Q: Does this inspire you to play better?
TW: I have plenty to inspire me to play better.Q: Tiger, the last time you were here it was you, Rocco, the U.S. Open and 25,000 screaming San Diegans. Does dropping to No. 3 in the world put a cast on what should be an otherwise emotional homecoming, of sorts?
TW: Not really, Seany and I have been working hard on some great things and I'm eager to get out there and test them out.
Q: Tiger, how's the Achilles since the cortisone shot and has it been aching more since you dropped from No. 2 to No. 3?
TW: My Achilles has won 14 majors. (Smiles) (Laughter for joke that wasn't really very funny).
I took a look at the hundreds of comments on the Padraig video at YouTube, then read the discussion here. What a contrast!
You guys and gals are the best.
First we learned the R&A is open to revisiting the scenario of disqualifications for signing incorrect cards that, at the time players signed them were not incorrect. Now, Mike Davis, Senior Director of Rules and Competitions, confirms to the USGA is "absolutely going to reopen" discussions with the R&A. The Padraig Harrington situation was the final straw.
"We're all bothered by what is a narrow set of circumstances where someone can get the facts right and still be disqualified. In Harrington's situation, he thought ball was replaced and only television is telling us otherwise. He knew the rules, he thought he did everything right, he just didn't know all the facts. So the USGA and R&A will open it up again, but we also have to make sure we don't do something that has domino effect."
Davis was speaking after just returning from R&A meetings in St. Andrews and said emails have already been exchanged between the USGA and R&A on ways to remedy the rule without creating unintended consequences, such as allowing players off the hook for not knowing the rules. Which was not the case in the Harrington scenario.
Like most of the PGA Tour's finest didn't have enough reason to skip the Hope! Nonetheless, Joe Ogilvie's given this a lot of thought and like most logical PGA Tour-related ideas, it probably has little chance of happening.
Forget Padraig, we need the rule changed on scorecard DQ's to protect the viewers at home who have been called every name in the book after the latest call-in violation.
Thankfully, most of the scribes cooled off after their initial tweets about the sheer horror of a viewer witnessing a violation and daring to point it out. They directed their emotions at the rule the USGA and R&A refuse to budge on.
Wouldn't you love to see Tiger or Phil pull a Caroline Wozniacki just once?
Christopher Clarey explains how the women's world No. 1 in tennis decide to answer all of the boring questions by posing them herself! Deadspin has the video.
I just want to know how you can replace a ball like that?
Padraig Harrington was DQ'd from Abu Dhabi's HSBC Classic for signing an incorrect card after a viewer spotted this violation after the card was signed.
Here's the video of the violation called in after his round:
But some good news: more practice time!
From Nancy Armour's story on Davis Love's widely applauded (here, here, here and here) appointment as 2012 Ryder Cup captain.
You know those masterpieces, requiring tree removal and other dusting off after 20 years. Anyway, I know it's the Las Vegas Sun, but still, you have to giggle at John Katsilometes revealing that after all of these years, Shadow Creek is finally going to be available to the public for either $500 or as a spectator at Michael Jordan's Celebrity Invitational.Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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