"The course set-up is making guys lash out."

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Lawrence Donegan reports on the Paul Casey-Ernie Els pairing Saturday going off without a hitch despite Casey's criticism of Ernie Els's Wentworth redo 3.0. Seems the setup is now to blame for the lousy architecture, though I'm pretty sure the European Tour staff didn't redo the greens or import that pretty water hazard from Florida!
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Woman Qualifies For Canadian Tour!

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Thanks to reader Bob for this Score Golf item on Isabelle Beisiegal, a 32-year-old Montreal native who qualified in the the Canadian Tour's Spring Qualifying School. This makes her the first woman to successfully earn status on a men's professional golf tour.

On the back nine Isabelle would make bogeys on eleven and twelve and sit four over par for the day with six holes left to play. She then birdied the par 5 thirteenth before a stubbed chip from off the green at fourteen lead to another bogey. She would make another birdie on the short par 4 15th, but here drive on 16 found the water off the tee and lead to another bogey.

Her tee ball on the par 3 17th left her with a six-foot put for birdie which she would go onto make, and then ground out an up and down par on the eighteenth hole which gave her a fourth round score of 75, and a tournament total of 296 (+8) which would be good enough to earn the last non-exempt card.

"I went into today just trying not to get ahead of myself. I focused on thinking about where I was and not what could happen. I was assured in the fact that no matter what happened it was going to be ok."

Ernie Responds To Wentworth Design Bashing: "I do not believe you will find better surfaces to putt on anywhere in the world."

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The only thing worse than player architects who have not business messing around with a classic course is a player architect who hasn't a clue how to defend his work. Lawrence Donegan on continued criticism of Ernie Els' latest redo of Wentworth, with Ernie's reply to Ian Poulter.
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