Padraig Misses The Old Grooves
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Brian Keogh notes that the R&A Ambassador wouldn't mind seeing the old grooves come back.Brian Keogh notes that the R&A Ambassador wouldn't mind seeing the old grooves come back.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
Brian Keogh notes that the R&A Ambassador wouldn't mind seeing the old grooves come back.Playoff System Designed To Ensure Tiger Woods Makes It To The Final Weekend Begins Without Tiger Woods
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Just remember over the next four weeks: every time we get a rundown of the points permutations, FedExCup standings, points resets, whiteboard scenarios and other geeky nonsense, this was a points system built around making sure one person would be playing right up to the final weekend at East Lake.Capitalist Phil Suggests America Look To Communist China For Job Growth Inspiration!
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It was one of those moments you watch and think, why am I watching the Golf Channel tag along with Barclays CEO Bob Diamond and Five Guys franchisee Phil Mickelson as they bumped fists with the Charlie Foxes of the world staring at their stock monitors and in general, sell you on the wonders of this week's sponsor. All Options On The Table To Finish The Barclays
/Brendan Prunty is reporting that one Hurricane Irene-induced possibility for the Barclays is a 36-hole Saturday finish, assuming the weather cooperates at already-drenched Plainfield between now and then.
Read MoreTom Friedman Compares Obama To Tiger...
/The Pulitzer Prize winning columnist suggests the President shift his modus operandi to match play tactics: "Always play the course, always play to win and always assume your opponent will do well — will make that long putt — so you have to do better."
Read MorePhil: "We've outlawed the paddle grip for crying out loud, I don't know why; that was legal for three decades."
/Alex Myers focused on Phil's comments today on not ruling out the belly putter, but I of course was jumping for joy when he noted that the USGA did outlaw the dreaded, horrible, blatantly criminal paddle grip, which was nothing more than a slight indentation at the top of the grip, and all because putting geniuses Stockton, Archer and Crenshaw used one. (Actually that's not entirely true, but I just wanted to get a nasty email from Frank Hannigan at some point today.)
Read MoreRobert Allenby Does The Humane Thing And Fires His Caddies
/Ben Everill reports that the Aussie has dropped his "shared-duty" caddies (one can only take so many weeks in a row with the man?) and has replaced them wtih Robert Floyd, son of Ray, who is very open about his recent troubles with alcohol and year of court-ordered house arrest that has him lugging not only Allenby's baggage...err...bag, but an ankle bracelet too.
Read More"Until someone sat them down and explained that they did something wrong, they didn't have any idea."
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I didn't pay much attention to the Bethany College golf team's suspension over its homage to UCLA's Joe McNally nude shot from a few years back, but then I read Shane Bacon's account and another story, which left me with two questions:Plainfield's Risky Finish
/Larry Dorman examines the big twist at Donald Ross' Plainfield for The Barclays: the driveable 18th. Always the weak link in an otherwise fantastic design, Dorman tells the backstory of the decision to move it up as made by Gil Hanse with the PGA Tour's Steve Wenzloff doing all of the explaining at headquarters for the skeptical Oxford shirt set.
Read MoreTwo-And-A-Half Minutes Of Your Life You Won't Get Back: Dustin Johnson Dresses Up In A FedEx Uniform
/This is painfully awkward on so many levels.
Warning, this is only for terminally ill readers seeking ways to prolong their lives.
Update on 2011-08-24 21:53 by Geoff
**Apparently a copyright claim was issued by FedEx and the video will be back tomorrow for those of you devasted not to have been able to watch it.
"By all accounts, Woods appears to be following in Norman's footsteps, and not just when it comes to his choice of office space."
/Thanks to reader Mark for Alexandra Clough's report on Tiger Woods moving his ETW Corporation headquarters from Orlando to Jupiter and into Greg Norman's old space.
More Love For The USGA's Lack Of Distance Oversight
/The USGA made the top of Alan Shipnuck's no-so-hot list with this week's trip to lengthy Erin Hills.
Read More"Ogilvie also understands that it's time for him to be more candid about his future interests in a job currently held by Tim Finchem."
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Joe Ogilvie tells Jeffri Chadiha that the players "have a perfectly great commissioner right now in Tim" but "eventually Tim is going to retire." And with that, he officially lets it be known he would be interested in the job.
