Duck Dynasty's Golfing Days Undermining Their Redneck Cred?
/Conservative blogs are insisting the reality show
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
Reed Goes 63 x 3, Has Shot At PGA Tour 72-Hole Record!
/From John Nicholson's AP report on
Read MoreOh BTW, Phil Shoots 63, Trails By Two Strokes
/Overshadowed by the latest rules brouhaha, generally slow starter Phil Mickelson picked up where he left off last year with a third round 63 at the HSBC in Abu Dhabi,
Read MoreMcIlroy Penalized: "There are a lot of stupid rules in golf and this is one of them."
/A 68 turned into a 70 for Rory McIlroy after he took relief from a second hole spectator crossing but still had part of his foot on the Ground Under Repair
Read MoreR&A Consulting Corporations On All-Male Club Ramifications
/The R&A, sister brother club of the all-male Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, is asking corporate partners
Read MoreVideo: Faldo Sticks A Cupcake Lob Shot
/Nick Faldo tried to “dispose” of a cupcake when fitness master Gary Player
Read MoreVideo: Keegan Bradley Makes First Career Hole-In-One
/Courtesy of PGA Tour Entertainment,
Read MoreParamor Coming After Media For Sergio Cheating Claim!?
/Bernie McGuire, who freelances for the Associated Press in Europe and is also an R&A media liason officer at The Open Championship, took to his girlfriend's blog to attack
Read MoreMcCord On Baby Boomers: "We supported all these clubs, and now there's nobody to tap us on the shoulder and take over"
/Lots of interesting stuff in Cameron Morfit's
Read MoreHuggan: Americans Must Apologize To Sergio!
/John Huggan rides in on his high horse to tell Americans
Read MoreTiger's Peers On How Many More Majors He Will Win...
/Pete Madden with the highlights from SI Golf Plus' annual anonymous poll of PGA Tour players
Read MoreThis Week In Golf Channel Ratings: TOC Monday, Sony Sunday
/Son Of The Bronx posts the latest numbers that included the Monday finish at Kapalua and last weekend's traditional Sunday ending of the Sony Open. For the week, the channel averaged 166,000 viewers in prime time, 87,000 for the day, down from 231,000/101,000. 
The live telecast of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions was the No. 1 program for the week, drawing a .3 and 496,000 viewers. Number two was Sunday's Sony Open final round, which drew a .2 and 346,000 viewers going against the NFL playoff game.
The top rated Golf Central was Saturday's 11:30 ET showing, drawing a .1, 132,000 viewers following a third round replay of the Sony that had 97,000 viewers.
And the most watched Morning Drive was Saturday (.1, 127,000), which aired at noon ET.
Update on 2014-01-17 18:30 by Geoff
**I hadn't looked at Fox Sports 1's numbers in a while. Wow. Almost no increase over a year ago when it was the Speed Channel.
Video: Bill Clinton Stops By The Golf Channel Booth
/President Bill Clinton made a Thursday appearance in the Humana Challenge's Golf Channel booth to talk to Terry Gannon and Nick Faldo.
Read MoreVideo: Sergio Tapping Down Something, Violation?
/Sergio Garcia appears to commit a violation during round one play
Read MoreInjury Rough Is Back And It's Lamer Than Ever!
/I read through the lines after Sergio Garcia's post-round (76) comments about rough in Abu Dhabi, and wrote about it for GolfDigest.com. I think you'll be surprised to find Sergio was right to call out the course setup tactics.
Because just when you thought the days of injury-inducing rough had ended...
Update on 2014-01-16 20:56 by Geoff
**A SkySports.com report quotes broadcaster Ewan Murray praising the rough, even though it might induce injury.
Murray described the course set-up as "marvellous", and said: "You are talking about setting up the golf course to test some of the finest players in the game today. In my opinion, that examination needs to be a stern one.
"Straight driving is very much part of the game and those who hit most fairways should have the advantage over those who don't. You will not beat these players will length alone, but you will identify the best of them by putting the premium on accuracy.
"The Tour should shorten the course on perhaps two of the four days and combine that with tucking the pins away. Give them different tests rather than the same all four rounds.
"The courses in the States are too easy. There is little or no rough and that plays into the hands of the long hitters. Their setting up of courses creates one dimensional players.
Who'd a thunk we'd come to the point that the U.S. was home to low rough and it was Europe trying to give us the dreadful high-rough, yawnfest golf?
"We copy America too often. The European Tour should take the lead, add variety and ask the players some different questions. When you do that the best will come up with the answers."
Asking players to walk a fine thin center line is not asking a different question. It's asking the same one-dimensional question over and over again.
