Pavin-Gray Bout Post Mortem; Minus Questions From Larry Merchant

Come on, you'd love to hear Merch grill Captain Pavin about being told he was going down, or Gray try to turn the table on Merchant about who has smooched Don King's rear the most (and best).

But alas, Michael Bamberger took on the task of mopping up after last week's spat and offers a few new details.

Last Saturday, in an interview with SI, Pavin said, "It was a very strange deal. I don't understand what he meant by ['you're going down'] at all. I'm baffled."

Gray said in a statement, "I never threatened or said those words to Corey Pavin." You might as well blame this one on the Tiger scandal too. If only he had played better golf this year, all this could have been avoided.

Oh come on, you can see Gray asking Pavin if he's planning to pick Anthony Kim no matter what.

Through a PGA official, SI asked to hear Lisa Pavin's recording of the argument. The Pavins did not respond to the request.

Can you say, World Golf Hall of Fame? I see it in the Pavin locker, or maybe as part of the audio tour after he brings up the Cup!

The whole thing makes you wonder if golf is ready for the modern media age, in which everything is parsed to death and sentences such as "Pavin said that Gray said" get turned into "Gray said."

And then there was this:

Meanwhile, at the CBS compound, Jim Nantz and Gary McCord and other CBSers were glued to the Pavin-Monty proceedings on TV and gleefully needled their colleague, David Feherty, for precipitating the line of questioning of Montgomerie. (The day before, Feherty had gone on the Dan Patrick Show and discussed some of the fine points of a British court injunction that prevents Baldwin from talking publicly about her affair with Monty.) The media echo chamber in golf has never been so loud.

Nice to know they find hypocrisy rib-worthy!