Rio 2016 Prez: Golf Course Project All "Sorted" And "Started"
/Tom Degun at InsideTheGames.com says Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman
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
La Costa South Redo Set To Start In May
/Tod Leonard reports that La Costa's South Course
Read MoreUSGA Book Award Winner: American Triumvirate
/James Dodson won his
Read MoreBloomberg: Obama Not Playing Enough Social Golf Rounds
/Kevin Liptak on New York mayor and golf nut
Read MoreTiger Effect: NBC's Doral Sunday Rating Up 42%
/Ed Sherman reports that the
Read MoreThe Tiger Of January Is Back!
/Tiger Woods, who dominated the game in January but completely lost it all while mired in a horrible February slump spent attending kids soccer games, discovered his old self this week in the WGC Cadillac Championship thanks in part to help from Steve Stricker.
Read MoreNo. 8: Cal Men Do It Again!
/From an unbylined Golfweek.com report on Cal Men's golf winning their eighth tournament this season, a ridiculous tally with several weeks to go in the spring.
This is just unfair:
Cal headed into the final round with an 11-shot lead by shooting the low team scores during the first- and second-round. On the final day, they shot 3 over.
All five Cal players finished in the top 12.
Sean Martin profiled the program earlier this year and revealed some of the keys to their epic run.
Turns Out Rory Might Add Pre-Masters Event...
/...this ought to get Las Vegas stirring, altering Rory McIlroy's current 9/1 Masters futures odds (thanks Steve Elling for Tweeting that).
From Doug Ferguson's WGC Cadillac Championship game story:
McIlroy said he won't add a tournament the next two weeks, returning at the Houston Open before going to the Masters. He is signed up for the member-guest a week from Monday at The Medalist Club, presumably as the guest of former NBA great Michael Jordan.
"He's asked me, so depending on what my schedule is and where I have to be ... we'll see," he said.
I smell live shot-by-shot Tweets from Rosie!
“I was trying to keep my hands from shaking off the putter"
/Naturally, the one week the Masters isn't generously giving out a spot in the field to a PGA Tour tournament winner, Augusta resident Scott Brown-
Read MoreGolf Channel Sets Some Ratings Records At Doral
/Big preliminary numbers from Friday's telecast of the 2013 WGC Cadillac:
· Round Two PRELIM: 1.5 HHs, 1,471,000 viewers. A 24 percent increase over same round in 2012 and a 45 percent increase from Thursday’s round one on Golf Channel.
· Highest rated / most watched early round since cable ratings started to be reported for this tournament (1995-2013).
· Highest rated / most watched early round since Friday’s second round at the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola (Sept. 21, 2012, 1.6 HHs / 1,559,000 viewers)
2013 WGC Cadillac Final Round Open Comment Thread
/A stellar leaderboard is pursuing Tiger Woods who, according to Dave Shedloski, "has never lost a 54-hole lead when ahead by at least three strokes, and he's won 50 of 54 times when owning at least a share of the lead."
This will be the final time we see this iteration of Doral, as it's slated to undergo a makeover soon after the final putt drops today. Try not to get emotional.
Coverage starts at 1 pm ET on Golf Channel, and 3 pm ET on NBC with bonus coverage of holes 15, 16 and 18 on Golf Channel at 3 pm ET.
"Foley...is among the most technical and scientifically oriented coaches in golf."
/Thanks to reader John for
Read MoreReminder: Blue Monster Finishers Get Golf Channel Spotlight
/As I noted in this week's
Read MoreWeird: Cards Reliever Injured Playing Golf
/Derrick Goold reports on Cardinals reliever Marc Rzepczynski injuring himself during a spring training golf outing Friday
"It's a freak, freak, freak thing," Rzepczynski said.
On his second shot on the first hole of a round of golf, Rzepczynski attempted to punch shot around a tree. He made the shot and collapsed, his eye struck and bruised by something. The golf ball traveled far enough that he is unsure how it could ricochet off the tree and his eye and still carry into the fairway. He is unsure if something else was hit by the club and damaged his eye.
