Tuesday's Trump Files...

It's a mixed bag for the Trump Olive Oil Company today, as Kerry Singe reports the "Trump Organization" has lost interest in buying The Point Lake and Golf Club due to member disarray and indecision. Shocking, that people of means can't agree on selling to other people of means.

Eric Trump, son of real estate mogul Donald Trump, flew to Charlotte Monday to meet with Crescent and club board members.

On Wednesday morning, Trump said, he called the board to say he was no longer interested.

"There's a lot of confusion at the club. A lack of direction," Trump told the Observer. "It's a great asset, and with a lot of capital could have been terrific. But we don't want to get bogged down with a deal that has a lot of different parties all moving in different directions at the same time."

Meanwhile, SI's Michael Bamberger watched the new "You've Been Trumped" documentary at the Miami Film Festival and came out of it feeling that filmmaker Baxter portrays Trump as a bully and blowhard, yet Bamberger finds The Donald "weirdly charismatic."

The Trump that appears in Baxter's film is a bully and a blowhard, and he comes off the same way in my friend Mike Tollin's ESPN film "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?" (Trump! At least, that's Mike's considered view.) I don't doubt that Trump can be a bully and a blowhard, but I have a different take on him. I found Trump to be smart, open and weirdly charismatic.

But the thing I liked best about him is that he didn't take himself too seriously, or not overly so. When I was doing my reporting on Trump, he had an ugly, ongoing feud with Rosie O'Donnell. Three days a week or so there was a "Page Six" item about their Seinfeldian war over nothing. I said to Trump, "This thing with Rosie, you're loving it, aren't you?" He said, "Michael." (If you meet him and you can help him, he will learn your name and use it often.) "Rose O'Donnell is the gift that keeps giving." In other words, she kept his name in the paper, and he likes that. More recently, I've abandoned my old view. I now think Trump takes himself very seriously.

No, really? You sure Mike?

You've heard him talk about running for president and questioning Obama's birth records.

Unfortunately.

There was no wink in any of that, not that I saw. He used to talk to me about golf-course construction as a hobby, the way gardening is for other people. Now I think golf has become something more for him.

State Of The Game Podcast Episode 5, Slow Play Cures!

Episode 5 looks at the slow play epidemic on the local and professional levels. Rod Morri hosts yours truly, John Huggan and special guest John Small, a tournament organiser and inventor fom Australia whose Solution 240 product is achieving remarkable results in eliminating slow play at two Sydney golf clubs.

As always, you can listen via the player below, on iTunes directly, or more conveniently via an iTunes subscription. It's free! In fact, for good measure, I'll throw in a link to David Owen's Slowest Member blog rant. While supplies last.

Tiger: "I felt tightness in my left Achilles"

Jimmy Roberts of NBC gets a statement through Tiger spokesman Glenn Greenspan, saying "I felt tightness in my left Achilles" and "in the past I would have continued playing." Tiger said he would be "evaluated sometime early next week."

Update on 2012-03-12 00:04 by Geoff

**Steve Elling with more details on how it went down. I'm noticing that Tiger did not stop by the fitness trailer, which I thought was mandatory after a WD due to injury, not to mention odd to not want to seek immediate treatment. But maybe not?

Woods, 36, changed his golf spikes at the turn for reasons that remain unclear, then began flexing his left knee and limping visibly after hitting his second shot on the 10th hole into the water, which viewers of the European feed noticed immediately. 

After a bogey on the 10th, he dropped to T27. He parred the 11th hole from a greenside bunker, then teed off on the 12th with a driver and crushed a shot 321 yards down the middle of the fairway.

Speaking of 3-2-1, nobody knew the withdrawalcountdown had started. He was 3 over for the day at the time and well off the pace at 6 under overall when he jumped into a golf cart and was taken straight to his black Mercedes sedan in a nearby car park. He drove off with caddie Joe LaCava, moments after a paramedic team from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue team cruised up to see if he required treatment.

"Rebounding Casey aces Doral's 15th hole as confusion, comedy ensue"

Steve Elling with the fun story of Paul Casey's Doral 15th hole ace, which was preceded by an agreement with caddie Craig Connelly to split the prize. Only, the car only goes to the ace on 13, even though one is parked right behind the 15th tee.

Connelly practically did a Yogi Berra leap into his boss' arms and danced in the tee box, as playing partner Kyle Stanley and caddie Brett Waldman joined in the celebration. Casey, on the other hand, deadpanned that he was a little bit bummed because he knew he'd have to share it with his looper.

"I don't think I've ever not wanted a ball to go in the hole," Casey laughed. "I never enjoyed not winning a car so much."

2012 WGC Cadillac Open Comment Thread

All eyes are on Bubba, unless of course The Donald crashes the trophy ceremony. Wynn Sports Book puts the odds on that at 6-5. Your thoughts on the final day at Doral...