These People Live Among You Files: Golf Tattoos

I'm sure these are all wonderful, tax-paying, something-fearing-American Americans. That said, to celebrate a new tat-heavy show debuting tonight on NBC, my colleagues at Morning Drive asked viewers to submit their golf themed inked-up torsos, limbs, digits and other areas.  Here is the full list of golf-friendly body art.

Some are genuinely lovely tributes.

Some are funny in a bar-fight kind of way.

Another is a fascinating tribute to Dr. MacKenzie.

Yet another could earn the person a call from Augusta National's lawyers.

And a few could use better lighting to prevent them from looking like those dreadful online photos you see when trying to figure out if Dr. Spaceman should take a look at that mole.

My personal favorite is the foot with coordinates to Muirfield Village ingrained for safe keeping.

Enjoy!

"Five charts that prove PGA Tour players are driving it into the stratosphere in 2015"

As the sun sets on Peter Dawson's R&A tenure lowlighted by changing the Old Course (just so he wouldn't have to push his organization toward a messy marriage with the equally money-hoarding obsessed USGA against a ball manufacturer), we must remember that Mr. Dawson has told us things have hit a "plateau" on the distance front.

However, with the end to the PGA Tour season upon us, Joel Beall has already started crunching some numbers and you will be shocked--shocked!--to learn that there are more players than ever averaging over 300 yards, more greens hit in regulation than ever, and more par-5s rendered meaningless.

But, whereas these rockets used to be a feat that garnered "Can you believe that?!?!" elbows to your friends, they've now become routine. If anything, it's eyebrow-raising when someone doesn't cross the 300-yard barrier with their drive.

And just to spare you newer readers the trouble of posting: I know that the players are more athletic than ever. I know they are armed with the best-ever equipment, instruction and fitting tools in the history of the game. Which is all fine. But just remember, there are rules governing distance in place. All I'm asking is that they be shifted a bit to keep the courses we have relevant.

If the need for maintaining relevance and reasonable-amount-of-acreage part still perplexes you, that part I can't help you with.

Alison Lee: The Stories She Can Tell At UCLA!

Alison Lee is still enrolled at UCLA, so the 20-year-old LPGA Tour rookie should have some fun stories to bring back to Los Angeles now that she's part of a winning Team USA effort in the Solheim Cup. And I'm pretty sure she'll never expect any putt to be good ever again. A good thing.

Jay Coffin at GolfChannel.com on the nutty week the rookie experienced at the Solheim Cup, which started out with food poisoning, included an incident that probably made her feel like she had more food poisoning, and ended with a 3&1 win over Gwladys Nocera.

She's good fun on Twitter, too.

Jason Day: Under Par In 31 Of Last 33

Watching Jason Day stumble around Conway Farms in 69 today was arguably more impressive than his opening 61-63. After all, the real sign of playing on another stratosphere in this goofy game is not necessarily how low you go, but how well you manage the not so great days.

While I'm still not sold on this becoming the year of Day after Jordan Spieth's historic major run, he's making things interesting.

Ryan Lavner, in his GolfChannel.com third round story from the BMW Championship, offered this:

Day has played 33 rounds since early June. He has signed for an over-par score in only two of them. In other words, it’ll take a super-low round to even challenge him.

“It’s almost playing golf darn near perfect,” Fowler said.

Though Day has a suspect record with a 54-hole lead – 3-for-9 – he has closed out his last two victories, including at the PGA. Coughing up a six-shot advantage would tie a Tour record.

Dottie: Entitlement Attitude Plaguing America's Women Golfers

As the Solheim Cup is about to start, we're reminded again on the eve what makes these matches fun: emotions run high! Including from the outside, where first Jaime Diaz and now a former assistant captain, player and a confirmed patriot in Dottie Pepper is providing some nice bulletin board for our ladies on the eve of the matches.

Team events bringout the emotion!

Pepper writes:

As an assistant captain, I saw an American team two years ago that was completely outplayed by a brilliant team from Europe, but the stage was set, I believe, by an attitude of privilege -- the negative and synonymous descriptions listed above -- by some key players. Players who needed to set the tone for a let's-get-the-job-done week, rather than an attitude of inconvenience and entitlement. It's not about face paint and time set aside for team manicures, or whose stilettos cost more and are a quarter-inch higher, or hair stylists and makeup artists.

Zing!

This could pertain to any team match, male or female:

It's about conserving energy for a weeklong marathon, being positive about preparations, carving out the time to make sure you understand the intricacies of the golf course and the rules that will be in play that week. It's about doing what your captain asks, even if it means staying off social media during a weather delay. It's about doing things that are not normal -- not your own selfish routine -- because the Solheim Cup is anything but normal.