Rory Sabbatini and Ian Poulter have become the PGA Tour’s court jesters for their ironic combination of girlie fashion sense and heroic “I can beat Tiger” statements. Sabbatini imposed a media boycott at the Mercedes Championship after press jumped all over his Target World Challenge withdrawal and string of Tiger challenges over the last year. Now Poulter is furious about being “misquoted” at GolfWorld, where in an interview he used his overconfidence normally reserved for putting pink pants on in the morning to suggest he and Tiger would be sharing major titles in the near future. All Poulter did was dream ...

Traveling American golfer, United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke does not want you going to Scotland, Ireland, or anywhere in Europe to play links golf. My sources tell me its because Bernanke never mastered the bump-and-run and likes riding golf carts with GPS. That makes perfect sense, considering Bernanke’s 1.25% interest rate cut in the last ten days and his persistence to keep the dollar weak versus most global currencies. He clearly has something against the rest of us who want to experience links golf. Look, I’m no economist (although the “C” I got in Micro despite ...

New golf course openings are few and far between in the Grand Strand these days, so it’s pretty big news a shiny new course will open this week: The Founders Club in Pawleys Island, just south of Myrtle Beach. It’s the first to open in the Grand Strand since Leopard’s Chase to the opposite end of the Strand in North Carolina. The Founders Club is located on the same site as the old Sea Gull golf course, a Myrtle Beach classic that opened in 1966. But this is no simple redesign job. The existing course was blown up entirely, and ...

ORLANDO - Never fear everyone, B Tuck is back to bring some sense into golf’s fashion world. I feel like fashion has taken over the PGA Show this year, practically half the space seems dedicated to apparel. And that’s a good thing, because that means more cute models running around the show floor. Here’s a few notes from the fashion wing. -Patterns and stripes are out in golf shirts. Solids, with either colored shoulders or sides are in. - Cotton has been kicked to the curb in favor of new micro fabrics like ClimaCool that feel like mesh. I suppose ...

ORLANDO - I think a proper equation for the PGA Show (and probably all trade shows for that matter) is that the amount of cleavage bore by a booth’s models are relative to the uselessness of the product being hocked. Take Green Novelties, for instance. They have two stunningly attractive models in knee-high socks, plaid skirts that leave little to the imagination, and tied up little shirts that do more supporting than covering. Am I not being vivid enough in my description? Then click here. Just in case you happen to miss them, which isn’t likely, there are about four ...

ORLANDO - I’m sitting here in my Orlando hotel room looking at three, 2 oz. shots of competing energy drinks that are on display at the PGA Merchandise Show this week. I’m kind of bored, so I’m thinking about taking all three shots at once. Before I do so and end up either hugging the toilet or on an all-night parkour session, let me compare and contrast the three for you. 5-hour ENERGY promises hours of energy instantly, no crash later, and is sugar free. Tee SHOTS Energy Drink promises enhanced focus and no jitters or crash. Not to be ...

Golfers and mass transit don’t get along very well. We’re often leaving for the course with little time to spare, so taking the 20-minute bus ride to the course five minutes away by car is seldom a favored option. Hauling our clubs on buses or trains isn’t a walk in the park either. I remember whenever I would take the train to golf courses in the Czech Republic, I couldn’t stand on the platform for three minutes before some Czechs would curiously inspect my golf bag like monkeys circling a monolith. Which is why it’s good to see that ...

A collection of related thoughts on the ongoing Kelly Tilghman debacle: -How come whenever Rev. Al Sharpton is in the news it’s because he is demanding someone be fired? I thought “Reverends” were supposed to forgive. -A more genuine apology and longer explanation from Tilghman, not what seems to have been a prepared statement, may have been more effective P.R. -Tilghman made the comment last week. Over the weekend, few knew anything about what she said. The apology began making the rounds on Tuesday morning and there were about 60 related articles, many of which informational-only on Google News. Today, ...

I had a feeling that last night’s Republican debates in Myrtle Beach would be anything but ordinary. That was an understatement. Chuck Norris threw a Kia 100 feet in the parking lot, Rudy Giuliani was booed off the stage and Ron Paul revealed Myrtle Beach’s ultimate “Golf Course of the People” Confused because this wasn’t on TV? Well, the “good stuff” was edited out. I know, I was there. For the full BadGolfer.com live blog, click here.

I didn’t even realize what was happening until yesterday. While at a red light one block from my office, six giant heads made of sand were suddenly staring at me from across the street of the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. I thought I had suddenly been transported to Easter Island before I noticed one of the heads had perfect hair. “Oh, Mitt Romney,” I concluded. The G.O.P. holds their Presidential debate tomorrow right in my back yard, and I couldn’t be more confused. What is a major political event doing in a tourist town? I think there should be a ...

I’ve never doubted my chosen institution of higher learning more seriously than one late night last fall in St. Andrews. I was at One-o-One, a take-out joint in town that serves up late-night pizza and just about anything you can throw in a deep fryer. It was there I met a college kid from Philly, studying abroad for the year at the University. I told him why I was in town, and he told me about the greatest deal I’ve ever heard in the world of golf: “Dude I pay like 100 quid and can play all the golf I ...

I am not an advocate of reptiles, especially snakes. I would mercilessly kill each one I encountered, if I didn’t have a far greater fear of machetes. Sometimes in my cubicle, I am startled by my black phone cord in the corner of my left eye, because for a split second I fear it’s a King Cobra about to swallow my head whole. I blame this life-long phobia on my 7th grade Life Science teacher Mrs. Baker, the orchestrator of savage mouse feedings to the school python every Friday afternoon. So today I’m left wondering why some Australians felt the ...