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
In an unbylined Herald Sun story, Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples is quoted responding to Greg Norman's multiple comments about the Tiger Woods captain's selection.
"I have no problem with Greg. He can say whatever he wants, but I'm not really into that. I play golf with my clubs,'' Couples said.
"Robert Allenby is his (captain's) pick, and Aaron Baddeley, and they're Australians and I think they're great picks.
"But I think I can sit here and say Robert Allenby hasn't won a tournament in 10 years.''
Cat fight!
Allenby's last US PGA Tour win was 10 years ago in the Pennsylvania Classic, although he has seven wins elsewhere since then, including Australian's Triple Crown - the Masters, PGA and Open - in 2005.
"The truth is, Tiger Woods is the greatest or the second-greatest player to ever play, and he's going to be down in Australia, and I hope he plays up to his capabilities,'' Couples said.
"But I think Tiger is used to getting picked on, and it's irrelevant to me.''
Well, not entirely irrelevant.
E. Michael Johnson reports that orders are way up for belly putters and even more disturbing for the people who should have banned the act of bracing a putter against your body but were too afraid to act, acceptance is now trending toward coolness!
...the word contest probably an unfortunate choice in that it cheapens things a bit, but I'll let you decide after reading the announcement. This is essentially as was reported in Golf World recently, again, without the "contest" word mentioned and sadly, it appears not period for the public to see the finalist entries.
Alistair Tait uses the occasion of Tom Lewis first professional win (already!) in the Portugal Masters to make an interesting prediction about the Open Championship and amateur golfers:
Darius Oliver provides the first review of Hainan Island's Shanquin Bay, a Coore-Crenshaw designed course that looks stunning and so different than most of the dreck we've exported to China.
Thanks to twobird for Selim Algar and Kieran Crowley's entertaining account of a jewelry heist that spilled onto the Village Club of Lake Success, with three "hoodlums" jumping from an SUV on the course.Seth Soffian reports on yet another motivational quote (I've lost track!) for Tiger, once again courtesy of International Presidents Cup team captain Greg Norman:
“I wouldn’t have (picked Woods),” Norman said during a press conference today to announce the field for the Shootout at host venue Tiburon Golf Club in North Naples. “I think Keegan Bradley was much more deserving.
“I can understand the name of a Tiger Woods and his history of what he’s done on the golf course. But I pick the guys who I think are ready to get in there and play and have performed to the highest levels leading up to it.”
With the McGladrey Classic underway, here are a couple of old views of Sea Island's most recognizeable hole, as created by the firm of Colt and Alison.
Ron Sirak reports on Bill Clinton and Tim Finchem's sitdown with select scribblers to plug the new Humana Challenge (aka Bob Hope Classic) and the tour is boldly planning on making days other than Thursday-Sunday spectator friendly. Cutting edge these people are!Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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