Alert Child Services? Mickelson To Pass On Family Vacation For Match Play
/Doug Ferguson reports on the Mickelson clan's loss becoming the PGA Tour's gain.
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
2011 AT&T Final Round Open Comment Thread
/Now that the Dubai Desert Classic is out of the way and most of the most important people on the planet have checked out of The Lodge, maybe it'll be about just golf and promoting the Grammy's during today's final round telecast from Pebble Beach.
Tiger Shows Sergio The Proper Way To Hock A Loogie**
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From Dubai earlier today (postd by kafka01), while playing with Sergio Garcia, who once so infamously dropped a loogie in a cup.
In the video, note the head rotation Tiger demonstrates as he turns to his right and lofts, with admirable trajectory, a healthy dosage of saliva. I think this could indicate the microfiber issue with is neck is improving, giving the PGA Tour hope for a more lucrative television contract.
Update on 2011-02-14 03:52 by Geoff
**Big Lead posts an audio-weak version with Ewen Murray calling Tiger out. Murray said:
“Some parts of him are so arrogant and petulant … somebody maybe has to come on this green behind him and maybe putt over his spit … it doesn’t get much lower than that.”
There goes Ewen's chance to supplant David Feherty as announcer on the next EA Tiger Woods!
Update on 2011-02-22 15:03 by Geoff
"As Woods and his advisors already know, their biggest victory in Dubai was sealed on August 22, 2008."
/Shane McGinley follows up on his early week exclusive report with a longer narrative revealing the same facts related to Tiger's contract with Dubai developer Tatweer. The numbers and timing remain staggering, perhaps a tribute to (A) Tiger's miraculous 2008 U.S. Open win and (B) the inability of Tatweer executives to notice that summer's warning signs of the real estate bubble bursting.
Read More"On a weekend where the world’s top three players – Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and Woods – skipped Pebble to play half a world away in Dubai, actors and athletes gave fans a show the pros couldn’t touch."
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That's AP's Antonio Gonzalez, who won't be confused with the commenters and Tweeters I read today!CEO Suck-Up Day On CBS, Open Thread
/It'll be hard to top the first two days of Golf Channel interviews with the most important and charismatic leaders in America to prevent us from having to look at that terrible course with those ugly vistas, but I know CBS will pull out all the stops to glean spellbinding insights in between golf shots and celebrity antics.
Read More“Golf is meant to be walked. If you take a cart, you have to stay on the path. And the carts won’t talk to you, tell you any stories, give you any yardages.”
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Larry Dorman dares to profile the little people--Pebble Beach's caddies--here on CEO tribute day at the AT&T National pro-am.I loved this from two-time California State Am winner Casey Boyns:LPGA Modifies Founders Cup; Still A Pro-Bono Week For LPGA's Finest
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Beth Ann Baldry on the changes made to the charitable distribution for the LPGA's inaugural Virtual Purse Classic.
The purse will drop from $1.3 million to $1 million, but the entire amount will go to charity – $500,000 to the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf and $500,000 to designated charities of the top 10 finishers.
It’s a good move by LPGA commissioner Mike Whan, who listened to the concerns of several top players. The discrepancy in the total purse and the amount given to charity was the main concern of Paula Creamer, who had yet to commit to the event.
“I certainly could have done a better job of initially articulating the details to players and media,” said Whan, “as that has led to some confusion about the tournament’s goals and objectives.”
I'm not any less confused.
Woods Skips LA (Again) To Spend More Time With His Appearance Fee
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Jill Painter reports on next week's Northern Trust Open--the seventh major to this website--and the fifth straight year of no-Tiger Woods in his former hometown event. (Returning to his hometown for Tiger has been redefined as southwestern Ventura County, aka Westlake Village.)"If you hit a bad shot, it will still be a bad shot that you have to take personal responsibility for. That's the core value of golf. No excuses allowed."
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That's former Sun Microsystems CEO and "Flogton" advocate Scott McNealy talking out of both sides of his mouth to John Paul Newport in this week's golf column. This thing just gets more convoluted the more you read."By clinging to the “home tour” rule officials have unnecessarily narrowed the global playing field and skewed the World Ranking."
/Rex Hoggard reminds us why there should be consternation about the USGA and other organizations relying so heavily on the Official World Golf Ranking to determine fields for major events. He speaks to currently injured by always thoughful PGA Tour player Arron Oberholser who reels off a solid list of glaring problems with the rankings.
Read More"They wouldn't even let me leave early before Shabbat."
/Jill Painter files a story about Wade Morris, a former Angeles National Golf Club employee who was banned from the Northern Trust Open qualifier at the course because he has filed a discrimination complaint after the course fired him. It's a bit confusing because the Southern California PGA runs the qualifier, but it appears they are the ones who complied with the course's wish to ban Morris.
This year, he and Hull went through the Southern California PGA to get permission to play at Angeles National, where Morris felt he would have an advantage since he played the course and worked there from 2006-09. Morris said he was told on Friday that he couldn't play because the PGA-sanctioned event would follow the rules of the club. Hull said Angeles National filed paperwork so that Morris couldn't play there.
given the option to play another qualifying event in Southern California. He played at Los Serranos Country Club in Chino Hills. He shot an 80 and didn't advance through qualifying.
The next qualifier is Monday.
The 25-year-old Morris said when he worked at the club he was not given Jewish holidays off or time to attend temple.
"I was a salaried employee and manager as well," Morris said. "I would request time off for holidays, and they wouldn't give it to me.
"They wanted to pay me the same amount, no matter how much I worked. I requested four to five Jewish holidays off and no luck. They wouldn't even let me leave early before Shabbat."
Another Tiger Fee Flashback: “That would be nice."
/Nice job by Lawrence Donegan to track down Tiger's comments when asked about rumors of his $10 million design fee. From a Woody White story in the Greenville News, from October 2009:
Read MoreAberdonians In Outrage Over Bendelow Hall Snub
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Colin Farquharson reports that Aberdonians are on the verge of congregating in the town square and calling for the ouster of a certain severely hair-dyed autocrat to protest Frank Chirkinian's emergency World Golf Hall of Fame induction over their man, the unsung master of staking 18 holes in a day, Tom Bendelow.Flashback: "Money was not the big motive for Tiger."
/In May of 2007 John Garrity filed a piece about golf in Dubai and specifically, the announcement of Tiger's project. In light of the revealed design fees, the quote is of interest:
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