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
Too bad the forecast for this week's Rain Dance Open at Riviera stinks, because we probably won't know if PGA Tour Championship Management's stepped-up marketing efforts are paying off.
First there was the Groupon ticket buy that sold 252 "Weekender" passes, and then (below), the super-cool plastic wrap around Sunday's LA Times featuring a free ticket offer and a Northern Trust Open-logoed green Sharpee.
BBC's report on Eliot Saltman dropping his three-month suspension appeal, but going out with a few jabs and word that he passed a polygraph.
Doug Ferguson on D.A. Points and Bill Murray winning at the AT&T Pro-Am, which also lead to the unthinkable: a Bill Murray press conference. (Check out Jeff Labreque's Entertainment Weekly look at just how difficult it is to get Murray talking on the record.)Doug Ferguson reports on the Mickelson clan's loss becoming the PGA Tour's gain.
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.
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.
**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!
That's AP's Antonio Gonzalez, who won't be confused with the commenters and Tweeters I read today!
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:
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.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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