Deane Beman On Why Ratings Don't Matter
/PGATour.com posts an excerpt from Adam Schupak's excellent Deane Beman book and includes this television ratings philosophy of the former Commish:
Read MoreWhen 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
Rory: Masters Collapse Might Have Been Chubby's Undoing!?
/Brian Keogh, offering up highlights of a season-ending chat with Rory McIlroy, includes this from the lad about how the Masters Sunday collapse led to dramatic changes in his life.
Read MoreDarwin's Golf Courses Of The Isles Coming To TV
/I think it's safe to say Golf Channel could right many the wrongs perpetrated by the Big Break Series by picking up Landmark Media Productions' "The Golf Courses of the British Isles" based on and using the words from Bernard Darwin's classic book.
Read MoreRaynor's Fox Chapel To Host Senior Players
/I've always heard great things about Seth Raynor's Fox Chapel Golf Club design near Pittsburgh. Now we'll get to see it and Brian Silva's restoration work there next summer in what is a new date for the Champions Tour major.
USGA's Davis: Solheim's Letter "Really Well Written"
/Jim Achenbach rang up USGA Executive Director Mike Davis who complimented PING's John Solheim for not ending any sentences with a preposition and for avoiding double-negatives. But he pretty much shot down Solheim's three-ball concept for the game as the USGA and R&A seem determined to stick to the "one set of rules for all golfers" even though common sense would suggest that's not feasible.
Read MoreAllen Stanford Fit To Face Charges For Defrauding World Class Golfers...
/...and other people of means. Eileen O'Grady of Reuters reports the accused Ponzi schemer's "retrograde amnesia" claim didn't pass the smell test.
Read MoreShame On The AP: Yani Tseng Not Even In Their Top 3
/Abby Wambach, U.S. women's World Cup goal scorer who gives good morning talk show interview took the AP's annual Female Athlete of the Year award, making her the first individual soccer player to win one of the AP's increasingly credibility-shattered awards.
Read MoreKim Jong-Il, Caddyshack Connoisseur?
/Cam Cole drops that nugget while actually giving the Kimster's hole-in-one claims several paragraphs.
He's said to have had a personal library of some 20,000 foreign films, including the complete James Bond series. His favourite all-time flick was Caddyshack.
"American golf suffered a blow yesterday"
/James Corrigan is stretching the magnitude of Peter Uihlein starting his pro career on the European Tour with this bold Independent lede...
Read MoreAdopt The Solheim Three Ball Concept Now!
/Long time readers know I'm a connoisseur of the increasingly bizarre suggestions by the manufacturing industry to protect an imaginary growth market, all under their insistence that golf's well-being relies on the hope of distance boosting equipment.
Read More"The PGA Tour should not be a closed shop."
/A fair point indeed, unfortunately he has to offer a counterpoint to Gary Van Sickle's extensive argument in favor of keeping Q-School and it's just not a fair fight. Van Sickle wheels out the names Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler as two players who would be spending a year on the Nationwide Tour if they were turning pro today.
Read MoreMayor Lee Vetos Sharp Park's Death Knell
/The S.F. Chronicle's City Insider Blog explains the Mayor's reasoning for vetoing legislation that likely would have ended future golf at Alister MacKenzie's Sharp Park.
Read MoreJohn Solheim Wants Everyone To Have Three Balls, And Other Amazing Revelations
/Or the option to play one of three golf balls...report Mike Stachura and E. Michael Johnson on the latest bizarro proposal from the PING folks in Arizona, hoping to stave off the governing bodies from more regulatory moves.
Chubby's On The Rebound, Adds Uihlein To Stable
/Jim McCabe on Chubby Chandler, scorned agent to Rory McIlroy, winning the bidding/schmoozing war for Peter Uihlein of Oklahoma State, and the interesting decision the lad has made to start his career in Europe.
"A short par-four that modern designers might throw back had changed the course of the tournament."
/I'm sensing Patrick Smith was hard up to blame the Golf Gods for Geoff Ogilvy's loss to Ian Poulter in the JB Were Masters at Victoria, so the brilliant little first hole gets the blame.
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