PGA, Players Purses Swell To $10 Million In '14
/The PGA Tour and PGA of America announced new joint initiatives Wednesday, perhaps finally putting to rest the apparent
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
Vijay Asked To Sign New PGA Tour Membership Agreement?
/Alex Miceli analyzes the
Read MoreWanted: Fox Sports Golf Producer!
/With the clock ticking on the arduous task of building a fresh and innovative golf production team, it seems the folks at Fox Sports are still searching for their head man as the holidays near and the new USGA kicks in on January 1, 2015.
Read MoreQuail Hollow Unveils Latest Redo, New 16th Hole
/David Scott
Read More"The PGA Championship ... has a chance to identify itself as the only international major."
/I've yet to talk to anyone--including some PGA Professionals--who see any downside in the PGA of America exploring a once every four
Read MoreUSC Women Win Seventh-In-A-Row
/We've been spoiled a bit by Cal's amazing run of tournament wins last year, but it looks like the USC women are going to reset the standards in women's college golf. 
The defending national champions just won the Pac-12 Preview, an amazing 7th tournament win-in-a-row dating to the end of the 2012-13 season.
From a Golfweek.com report on USC edging rival UCLA.
The Bruins entered the tournament ranked No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings while USC was No. 2. USC has now beat UCLA in both tournaments in which they’ve gone head to head.
USC won its previous three fall tournaments with three different lineups. The Pac-12 Preview marks the first time this fall the team that won last year's NCAA Championship has come together.
“I am so proud of our team,” head coach Andrea Gaston said. “To win four events this year with four different lineups is a testament to the depth and talent of our team. As their coach, I appreciate how hard they work, and how they just keep fighting on! This is truly a special group of young ladies.”
That's Embarrassing: Snedeker Injures Himself Getting Off A Segway
/The silly season always seems to deliver a sking injury or some other pratfall that should have been covered in a contract clause, but it's hard to imagine "No Segway riding at a corporate outing in China" making it into the fine print.
Read MoreTiger's Loss Is Phil's Gain: HSBC Edition
/There's some fantastic behind-the-scenes manuevering in the news tha
Read MoreFarmers Extends Sponsorship Of Torrey Pines Event To '19
/A nice boost for an event that just three years ago was struggling to land a sponsor before Farmers signed on at the last minute.
Read MoreVijay's Lawyer: Tour Has Made Multiple Drug Policy Exceptions
/Peter Ginsburg, Vijay Singh's attorney in the lawsuit
Read MoreA Statistical Case Against Tinkering With The Old Course's 4th
/I'm not even going to bother with the spiritual case against defacing the Old Course by men with nary a trace of architectural soul, as that ship has sailed in the case of St. Andrews Changes vs. Common Sense.
Read MoreA-Rod's Lawyers Harrassed Caddy About Overheard Course Chatter
/For baseball fans
Read MoreRory McIlroy Claims Oakley Is Harrassing Him
/Besides going to trial next year against his now-former agent Conor Ridge, Rory McIlory also faces a claim from Oakley over the end of his arrangement with the apparel manufacturer and has filed his own documents suggesting the company has been harrassing him over the end of their deal. 
And it gets better. Brian Keogh summarizes the utterly bizarre situation, working off Colm Keena's Irish Times story:
When the case first came to light last December, it appeared that it would be quickly resolved in McIlroy’s favour after his then-agent, Conor Ridge, produced an email exchange he’d had with a sports marketing executive at Oakley named Pat McIlvain.
According to reports of the initial case last December 14, McIlvain sent an email to Ridge that said: “Understood. We are out of the mix. No contract for 2013. Pat Mac.”
Now it appears that McIlroy’s best defence against Oakley is the credibility of Ridge and Horizon, the people he has accused of tricking him into “an improvident and unconscionable bargain” and lack of “fiduciary duty of responsibility.”
What We Learned From The Tiger-Brandel Showdown
/Grantland's Shane Ryan calls the Tiger-Brandel brouhaha the "dumbest story of the year,"
Read MoreEdwin Watts' Chapter 11 Filing...
/I'll leave the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the Edwin Watts Golf Shops to the financial analysts to analyze, though no doubt the fee collectors will do well and the folks who do the dirty work will get screwed.
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