Tiger Can See A Geezer Winning A Major; Maybe Even His Ownself
/Tiger Woods appeared on 106.7 The Fan's The Sports Junkies
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
Lee Westwood Growing Understandably Weary Of Inane Rory v. Luke Questions
/Kevin Garside (he's back!) on about the
Read MorePepper On Slow Play: "I think the PGA Tour is burying their head in the sand."
/Steve DiMeglio files a
Read More"There are Nationwide Tour guys who can't do that with two good legs and plus-handicap."
/David Uchiyama with the story of Jordan Thomas, one amazing sounding person who also happens to be a golfer. He lost the lower half of his legs in a boating accident.
Thomas used a driver, then a 7-iron and two-putted for par on the hole, which plays 495 yards from those tees.
Only about 5 percent -- maybe less -- of the golfers in this country could accomplish that feat with those clubs. Even fewer could do it with Thomas' handicap. He lost his legs below the knees in a boating accident almost seven years ago.
"It's amazing, really," said Bear Trace assistant professional Heath Pendergraft. "I can't imagine having prosthetics and being able to transfer weight and being able to move the right side through the ball.
"There are Nationwide Tour guys who can't do that with two good legs and plus-handicap."
Thomas has aspirations of making the 2016 Paralympics Games in Rio.
Assuming he can find time for golf this summer while doing work for his foundation.
"I'm going on a road trip to California; then I'm going to Costa Rica for three weeks for an international business school trip. I'm going to Iceland to see a friend, then Germany to see a friend," Thomas said. "Then I'm off to Nepal to hopefully open up a prosthetics lab in Katmandu."
Update on 2012-05-24 05:01 by Geoff
**Jordan was nominated for CNN's Heroes:
Think You're Having A Bad Day Think Again Files: Motorcyclist Hit In Mouth By An Errant Ball
/Thanks to reader Jim for Brian Haas
Read MoreMemorial To Have 9 Of World Top Ten
/Only Lee Westwood is passing on next week's PGA Tour stop at Muirfield Village
Read MoreMichael Phelps Wants To Have A Life...And Play Lots Of Golf
/Rick Reilly files a
Read MoreNa To Unveil New Pre-Shot Routine At Colonial Minus The Whiffs, False Starts, Hitches And Self-Punishment
/Todd Lewis with the exclusive from the Mastercard Colonial. Na's quote: "I got rid of my waggle."
And if you stay tuned to the Golf Channel report long enough, you'll get to see Charlie Rymer give him a round of applause. No tears. Yet.
American Turnout For Wentworth, Or Lack Thereof
/From Doug Ferguson's notes column as the BMW Championship prepares to get underway at Wentworth. The World Top 50 plus past major winners are exempt. Only Shaun Micheel, Rich Beem and Ben Curtis are representing the Stars and Stripes.
Luke Donald wishes it would attract more Americans, though he understands the reasons not to play.
"You don't have to travel far to play in a $6 million event at a great course at Colonial," Donald said at Sawgrass. "But I've always been a proponent of to get the most out of your game, it's important to travel and to experience new places. I think at least go try it once, and if you don't like it, fair enough. But it's a big event on our tour. It's considered our Players Championship of the European Tour. And I would have thought that would incite some interest in some of the big Americans that would be exempt for it."
"That the LPGA stuck to its business on golf's most difficult-to-enforce issue should be applauded."
/I've been a little surprised that a sport which is so quick to pat itself on the back for having athletes who call penalties on themselves
Read MoreLeonard's Update On Torrey Pines North...
/Tod Leonard talks to City Golf Manager Mark Marney
Read MoreErnie: Stop Complaining About My Redesign That We Have To Keep Redesigning!
/Spring to me means the scent of fresh cut grass, wildflowers, the Derby and the drama of players returning yet again to Wentworth to see what web Ernie Els has spun for them now. You can relive bitching from previous years here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
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