Woods Fires Stevie For Disloyalty!?

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Robert Lusetich, who interviewed Steve Williams at length for his book on the Tiger scandal and who frequently has scored several Williams related exclusives, recounts the loyalty shown by Williams despite spousal pressures. But he also takes us through the build-up and ultimate cause of the highest profile breakup in player-caddy history: Tiger felt betrayed.
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Bubba! "I think the golf industry is going the wrong way....No one else is changing their game so much with technology."

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I always enjoy Farrell Evans' Q&A's at golf.com but when I get to add a modern day player to The List, why it's a special day. And when it's the most American of American's expressing such un-American, anti-something views, it's just a grand day!
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Tiger, Stevie Break-Up Clippings

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Sometimes blogging is traumatic and so upsetting that my keyboard is flooded with tears of raw emotion. This is not one of those nights!

Doug Ferguson on the break up of golf's sweet lovebirds, reveals that Tiger broke the news in a board room at Aronimink after the AT&T National final round and Stevie chose to keep quiet out of respect for his new client.

 

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Geezers On Rory: Adapt Or You Won't Win

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Most of the Euro Tour beat writers remain reluctant to question the long term future of Rory McIlroy in the Open Championship after he wrote it off Sunday, but as Karl MacGinty Brian Creighton reports several old geezers saw Rory McIlroy's comments about the Open and believe he needs to change his attitude.  Nick Price was the toughest:

“He had better get out there and start liking those courses and figuring out a way to play them. And if he's a good enough player, he will do that.

“He may not like it as much but he will learn. I guarantee you, he will learn to play and enjoy it on links courses.”

Ian Woosnam was the most erudite. And I bet you never thought you'd see his name and that word in the same sentence!

“He's only a young kid. He's going to say the wrong thing again and again. He's probably thinking ‘What the hell have I said?'“ Woosnam commented on the US Open champion.

“But if he wants to win the Open he's going to have to adapt. Tiger has adapted, Nicklaus adapted. Palmer, they all adapted.

“He needs to adapt to it. It's not changing your game. It's changing the way you think. All you have to do is move the ball back a couple of inches in your stance and take a club or even two clubs more to play. It's called control.”

USGA Defends Slow Play Penalty: "It’s just an unfortunate coincidence.”

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Golfweek's Ryan Lavner fleshes out the hole-in-one-with-slow-play-penalty madness at the U.S. Junior Amateur, telling us that Connor Klein's group had fallen 20 minutes behind, which created problems when Klein then took his allotted 10 minutes to search for a lost ball while his playing partners finished out the 11th hole of the day.
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Chubby On Rory: “You guys get them when they’re disappointed when they have just finished."

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Brian Keogh reports on Rory McIlroy's agent Chubby Chandler coming to the defense of his client after Rory's surprising post-round comments suggesting that Open golf was not his thing.

Chubby agrees with McIlroy's belief he should not change his game for one week a year, even though it's the most important tournament of the year. Also note the line about wind.

“I think he’s right,” Chandler said. “Why would you change what he’s got? What will happen is that he will gradually learn to play the shots that Darren learned 15 years ago.  But at 22 he has not got the experience.  And it won’t be a case of changing his game. He won’t need to do that because he can win a lot of golf tournaments with that game.

“He will get a couple of times when the wind is not up in the Open and it will be a lot easier. But he will learn. He will learn to play because I tell you what, he has learnt an awful lot in a year. Last year he had no idea. This year he was much better.”

Chubby also suggested the timing of the questions did not help. After all, the lad had a better place to be in London.

As Chandler noted: “You guys get them when they’re disappointed when they have just finished. So what comes out of their mouth, Bubba Watson style isn’t always what they are thinking. So you have always got to temper that. He is not going to go away and think I have got to practice this way and that way to win the Open. But he will get better at it.”