Take That Tiger: Bubba Already More Popular At Isleworth
/Well, so says
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
AP: Land Dispute Threatens Rio Olympic Golf Course Site
/AP's Tales Azzoni reports that a land dispute thought to be one of the reasons the architecture competition decision was delayed
Read MoreOlympic Club Getting A New Bunker This Week
/The rumors are true, the USGA has asked for and received the installation of a new bunker on Olympic Club's 17th hole just 56 days before the start of practice rounds on June 11th.
Read MoreReports Of Rory Having Shrunk A Foot Appear Premature; Appears To Be Just Caroline's Nine-Inch Heels
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The Daily Mail's Deborah Andrews on Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniacki taking in a day at the Newbury races with the Queen on Her Royal Worship's 80th birthday. The caption writer couldn't help noting how Caroline "towered" over her man. I was more alarmed by the length of his trousers.
They are at the top of their sporting game - and appear to be very much in love.
It seems life can't get much better for golfer Rory McIlroy and his tennis player girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki.
The couple, nicknamed 'Wozzilroy', spent the day at Newbury today and could barely keep their hands off eachother.
Rory Tweeted about the day and his delight in meeting the Queen.
The Olympic Golf Impact, Russian Edition
/An unbylined Russian Television story pretty much lays out the scenario that International Golf Federation organizers and Olympic golf boosters predicted about including the game as part of the Olympics. Namely, the push to develop players in places that traditionally have not funded or paid attention to golf. Like Russia.
One of the main prospects is Vladimir Osipov. He is just 16, and would turn 21 at the Rio Olympics.
The Games will see the return of golf, after just two appearances, early in the 20th century. But to make an Olympic dream come true, players need to dig deep. “Of course I want to go to the Olympics,” he said. “But, to give myself a chance, I need to be high up in the world rankings. So I'll have to turn pro soon and start racking up ranking points, and improve my game.”
For this season, the youngster is setting his sights on the European Amateur Team Championships in Portugal in September, and then probably the World event.
The Russian national side are fresh from a training camp in America and local trainers praised their progress as a unit.
But the sport's officials are after strong performances, not just words of approval. “To go to the Rio Olympics, golfers will need to rocket up the world rankings,” Nikolay Afanasiev from Russia’s Golf Association said.
NGF: Golfer Inventory Reduction Much Smaller In '11
/The annual findings of the National Golf Foundation
Read MoreNationwide Tour Head Offers Yet Another Reason To Question PGA Tour's Radical Entry Revamp
/The forthcoming boondoggle that is the PGA Tour's decision to end Q-School
Read MoreFlash: Romney Under Impression Round Of Golf Only Lasts Four Hours!
/In the presidential candidate's lastest critique of Barack Obama's love of golf
Read MoreKevin Na Returns To The Scene Of His Infamous 16
/And Na tries to play the hole
Read MoreFoley: Lay Off My Man Tiger!
/Sean Foley is fed up, mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. At least, as much as a super nice Canadian can get angry. Asked at the end of a Sirius/XM Fairways of Life interview with Matt Adams about Woods after 20 minutes of general golf talk, the instructor came to his pupil's defense. Randall Mell reports:
“I know everyone has a job to do, and I get it,” Foley said. “But if it is about the game of golf, Tiger Woods is an extremely important part of the game, and I think everyone understands that. It has just gotten to the point where the tearing down of Tiger as a person and a golfer has become just too much. I think it is just out of hand.
“I realize it is 2012, and we have dotcoms, and you have to write five articles a day, and you run out of things to write about, but we should be in a position where we are trying to help and lift up and support a player like Tiger Woods, instead of tearing him down, because everyone in the golf industry is better off because of his existence.
“That is basically one thing I want to get out. Tiger is a wonderful person, and he is a good dude, and he lives a complex life. I think things have got to slow down, it has got to stop, the daily referendums and the criticism.”
Duly noted. And that won't happen as long as he's kicking clubs.
"We don't want to be given special treatment compared to other industries. We just want to play from the same set of tees."
/That's outgoing PGA of America head Joe Steranka speaking of the lobbying effort that took place Wednesday.
Read MoreBack-To-Back Cart Path-Aided Aces; And They Still Didn't Make The Varsity Squad
/Tyler Mason with the positively
Read MoreMonty Gives Branson Lesson on Plane Wing; No Structural Damage Reported
/I know, predictable fat jokes aren't fair these days now that Monty has dropped so much weight that I did a double take when spotting him under the Big Oak.
So here are four minutes of your life you won't' be getting back. But before you move on, in those four minutes we learn Monty is helping Richard Branson launch the "Swingers Club" (yes, the same Monty who has been dogged by...anyway...). And best of all from the Virgin executive, there was this statement about Monty: "If not the greatest, one of the greatest golfers in the world."
I knew I'd get you to watch!
