Rees: It's Gotten "Personal"

Ron Green Jr. interviews Rees Jones and asks about recent player criticism of his work. (Thanks to reader Del for this.)

Your work has been criticized by Phil Mickelson and others. That comes with the territory of being a designer, but does it bother you?

RJ: It bothers me when it gets personal. I expect it as far as the game or the golf course because not every golf course suits every player. It's supposed to be the golf course against the golfer until the final round when it really becomes the golfers against one another.

Wrapping Up The Tiger-Frys.com Open Courtship

I'm guessing we'll soon learn of Tiger Woods becoming part of the Frys family, but in the meantime I penned Golf World Monday's Big Read on Tiger's appearance, his game and how it was a great week for both parties despite the hot dog incident and not contending.

You don't have to be a Golf World subscriber to read all 950 or so words.

Daily Telegraph Shows The Tiger Hot Dog Incident

Thanks to reader Chris. While the story posting photos and video has fun with it, you can see the seriousness of what this could have been by the urgency of Joe LaCava's Atwal caddie Laddie Cline's reaction.

And nice work by security to get on him quickly though I'd like the knee to the back to have been a little nastier.

Now if we could just find out the name of this loser so that it comes up in Google searches for the rest of his life...