Well, after a well earned rest from the keyboard I have returned, and oh yes, the One Who Cannot Be Ignored is teeing it up this week. Note to Rory Sabatini, you (who would challenge the Great One) shot a score 19 strokes higher than the esteemed Tiger Woods today. Nice going! Or somewhere around 25% to 30% worse than Tiger depending on how you do your math. Maybe Rory has a future on the Nationwide Tour. On other news from the golf world, my buddies at Stroke Solutions with the “fat ugly grip” used with such success ...

Well, the season drags on and continues to underwhelm, with the most recent victory by Steve Fleish. As he put it, he stumbled a bit, but had a big enough lead that no one could track him down. Good for him, but as you looked at the leaderboard, you had to think deeply to find names you recognized. The FEDEX Cup “race” turned out to be a coronation and as one writer put it, Tiger didn’t even need to complete in the final Tour Championship to take the Cup. Now that says it all. The point system ...

Perhaps it is just me, and I have become hyper-critical of the syrupy coverage of golf lately, but forgive my saying so, but the TV coverage this week has been just plain pathetic. Just as soon as we almost had our first real social crisis in golf with Bill Murray getting popped for driving drunk in a golf cart in downtown Stockholm, Sweden, I thought maybe golf would now have our own Michael Vick. But Bill didn’t disappoint as he refused to take the breath test referring to American law. Brilliant move Bill. I guess he figured ...

When will these guys learn? Don’t tick off Tiger Woods! Don’t even think you are in the same league, just be glad to take second place money. When Tiger is in full form, all cylinders, smooth take away and transition into his downswing, his shot making is so perfect, he can run away with any tournament, and most of the PGA know it. So, what in the world is a punk like Sabbatini thinking when he “calls out” the worlds No. 1? He reminds me of the loudmouth punks back in high school, who would try to trash talk their way ...

What a week in sports! The Open Championship at Carnoustie gave us all the drama we could ever wish for. Tiger lurking, but never quite challenging. A host of major winners on the leaderboard trying to chase down Sergio Garcia. Carnoustie playing “tough but fair” in the words of Woods. As a sports fan you couldn’t leave your seat for the last two hours of the event, unless you use your Tivo. And then as you switched your TV from the Golf Channel or ABC to ESPN for more sports news… “From the NBA, it was revealed that a ...

Every now and then, one of the “little” companies, new entries with a great idea and product capture the attention of the golfing world and so it was last week at the inaugural ATT National hosted by Tiger Woods. KJ Choi had seen the SuperStroke Grip on the Golf Channel and in fact ordered one. At the tournament, in one of the Tour Vans, he saw it again, had it installed, and the rest as they say is history. He wins in a walk with a stellar career defining win with vastly improved putting stats on greens that had ...

Some time ago, I wrote a column supporting the choices that Michelle Wie had been making, to play against the men and so forth, but I think the last week has shown, she just doesn’t have the heart of a champion. Female athletes develop sooner than men, and if we compare her to the young boxer Cassius Clay (Ali) when he stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, the most feared boxer of his time, and after beating Liston to the punch and surviving some toxin in his eyes, beat Liston so thoroughly that Liston simply sat on his stool at ...

Despite all the modern advances in new “technology” in the golf equipment business, the game of golf still remains a simple one. That is, get the ball in the hole in as few a strokes as you are able. Secondly, beat the pants off your buddies. But, in the process, I think we have lost a bit of the charm, and the grace of the game. And, as I get out and play, I am always amazed at the fact that the vast majority of folks are NOT playing brand new equipment! Instead I see ...

Dateline San Francisco- A recent column in the San Francisco Comical (Chronicle) by Isabel Wade, Jill Lounsbury, and Sally Stephens sends a new message to the golf industry, “grow or die.” In a recent review by the City revealed that the six municipal facilities in SF are seriously losing money. They ask, perhaps rightly that does the City really “need six underutilized golf courses?” Their answer is a definite NO. Thankfully, the venerable ol’ course The Presidio is making a profit, but others like the wonderful track Lincoln Park is not. Harding Park of course with their recent renovation ...

Having just moved from the Monterey Peninsula to the Sonora mountain region of California, I am making the heat adjustment from mid 50’s to mid 80’s. Lost two pounds already. But, there are some interesting golf courses up here included the really wonderful Phoenix Lake Golf Course, which has been renovated over the last 8 years by Tom Parkhurst. “This place is a golf course, to come out, have some fun, bang it around. I am not here to be a cop, with the hurry up and keep up attitude. Come as you are, play some golf, ...

Okay, let’s break this down. The latest issue of Golf Magazine alleges that it had 40 readers and invited them to spend two weeks at Reunion Resort in Florida. Nice, how do you get that ticket? Then they say that the test 55 “latest” models and hit 72000 golf balls, which to just under 33 swings per club. How does that take two weeks? 1815 swings per person breaks down to 130 shots a day. Or two large buckets per day. Nice work if you can get it. Driver winner: TaylorMade r7 Draw. Game Improvement ...

Wow, what a Saturday at Augusta. Tiger trudges off the course matching his Thursday achievement of bogey’s on 17 and 18, and you could feel the steam building up like a nuke reactor ready to blow. Back the range to settle down with this brain trust of Haney and Stevie to iron out his kinks. On the course, however the +3 seemed like he would wind up 5 back for Sunday, but then the other lesser planets began to crash. The last group was already having a nervous breakdown. Clark and Wetterick needed a sports psychologist instead ...

It is being reported that a CBS “technician” was found in his Holiday Inn with money and the red dye from the exploding material in his getaway bag of money. Two others were later arrested. Clearly, CBS is not giving enough per diem for this to occur. In fact, I tried to rob my local 7/11 for just that reason. I couldn’t find a sponsor, so I thought, hey, rob a 7/11 and get to Augusta, but the guys behind the counter just laughed at me and gave me my six pack of Samuel Adams. Maybe his attire messed him up. ...

On the 11th hole at Bay Hill, Tiger Woods made a few more bad swings out of the rough, and then mindlessly three putted for a double bogey while VJ moved up on Tiger by 5 and Tiger was done. He limped home with a double and a triple for his highest score since he was 12 or something like that. The next invisible sound you heard were millions of TV sets turning off. Johnny Miller and his NBC partners tried to make us care, but with VJ on cruise control and the only other player being Sergio who ...

I am sitting here watching the Oscars and I am super impressed by the stunning pretension and arrogance of these pinheads. They seem to believe that they ARE the characters they portray, rather than the dropouts, dope fiends and deviants they actually are. Ocar’s has gone “green?” Are you kidding me? They arrive in hybrids leaving their G5’s on the runway. They make movies, a few hours of diversion for me, but they don’t inspire, enlighten, or move me as they would like to believe. While I am sure there are some fine people ...

PGA TOUR vs. NASCAR I believe that the game of Golf is at a crossroads. Today, the PGA Tour went head to head with the Daytona 500. Fortunately, with my remote control I was able to watch the duel between Lefty and Charles Howell III, while the Daytona leaders waited for a very interesting “overtime” of a Green, White, Checkered finish. As I watched the NASCAR finish, while Lefty and Howell strolled to a death match on 18, the two lap finish of NASCAR had incredible drama with a finish of .020 of a second finish with the 7th place ...

Last year at this time, I was basking on the putting green at the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links during the AT&T Pebble Beach ProAm. 82 degrees and everyone was in light weight clothing and the girl watching was absolutely spectacular! Alas, the same can not be said today. The tournament was moved to early February to avoid the heart of the rainy season, but after an unseasonably dry January (along with ALOT of very cold weather) the inevitable rain and fog is upon us. Tournament officials “hope” to match last years attendance of just under 150,000 people. ...

The M(3) awards are the result of my wanderings through the isles each year of the PGA Show to find products that capture my attention, and in my humble opinion have a chance to flourish in the difficult to navigate world of golf. The Been Around a While Award: The Q Link: Though the Q Link has been around for 12 years now; long before their entry into golf and literally hundreds of players now use this device which wards off the harmful effects of electromagnetic frequencies. The product still has its skeptics and critics, who all voice ...

Oh my God…what am I watching? While the Golf Channel did their best to put a great face on the terrific top 30 players, oh, that is right; there weren’t many in the field, the guys playing the Bob Hope (Car Company) Classic…what a mess. And the Sony Open, won by a journeyman player, Paul Goydos, yes he is a household name…in his own household, but I think his kids just call him DAD…geez, do any of these guys know how to WIN? Oh, Justin Rose, he needs Prozac or maybe some psychological help from Dave Pelz, the King ...

Okay fans, Since I have so many commie watchers on this blog, and for this I am grateful, let me sound off on the Golf Channel coverage of their first 4-day tournament. I love my Confederate Flag since it has the St. Andrew Cross and represents States rights against wrongful taxation. And let it be known here that the Slave Trade was engineered and carried out by the Northern States, not the South. The North brought the Slaves in, and the South employed them. Massachusetts was the biggest trader in human traffic…right Senator Kerry? I thought the Golf Channel Coverage was really ...