Click here to listen. After the sheer devastation Lorena Ochoa inflicted upon her LPGA cohorts as well as upon Superstition Mountain, it’s unlikely that she will need much more of a tune-up for the upcoming Kraft Nabisco Championship. I’m betting along with the odds that Ochoa wins a major trophy this week. I’ll even up the ante to say that Lorena Ochoa will sweep the majors this year, saddling alongside of Tiger Woods for an LPGA/PGA Tour tandem Grand Slam! Michelle Wie’s wrist forced her to pull out of the Safeway, opting instead for a May exemption at the Michelob Ultra Open. Wasn’t it ...

Click here to listen. PGA of America President Brian Whitcomb joins forces with Golf for Beginners this week to spread the word about an exciting tournament designed especially for us, the amateur golfer! The McGladrey Team Championship is the opportunity for golfers with a verifiable USGA handicap to compete on a national level promoting teamwork and cameraderie as two of its goals. Teams of three golfers each will first qualify locally through August. Then, a PGA Professional golfer will join the group for the Sectional Qualifiers which begin in September culminating in a National Championship to be played October 20-22 at the ...

Click here to listen. The new ruling handed down by the USGA allowing golfers to interchange shafts and clubheads prior to a game depending on course (and human) conditions have clubmakers Callaway and TaylorMade quickly putting out new technology. Callaway’s I-MIX adjustable FT-5 driver and TaylorMade’s Tour Van in a Box interchange shafts and clubheads with the golfer optimizing the driver to his or her own comfort level. For example, as Jeff Colton, Sr. VP of Research and Design for Callaway states, “if they’re feeling a little weak that morning, play a lighter shaft, or if it’s been raining that week, drop ...

Butch Harmon finally booted John Daly out of his stable of high-profile professional golfers after Daly “made a circus” out of the PODS Championship. The last straw for Harmon was pulled as Daly was seen carousing behind a Hooters tent during a rain delay. John started his round 3 over-par and ended with a 77. Drinking beer and autographing the derrieres of women obviously fare better during corporate events than when big money and position are on the line. This isn’t the first time that Daly has made a spectacle of himself. Previous escapades that made headlines included throwing thousands of dollars ...

Click here to listen. When Tiger Woods first tied, then surpassed, Arnold “the King” Palmer’s PGA Tour win record, the press was quick to gobble it all up and regurgitate it incessantly. Buzz regarding when Woods will gain ground on Jack Nicklaus’ record and finally achieve top-dog status by pushing past Sam Snead’s long held eighty-two win feat are now mentioned in almost every golf fanatics conversation. As Tiger and company head over to Bay Hill this week to try to conquer this tough course once again (Woods is seeking his fifth victory), another record is in fear of being trounced, but ...

Click here to listen. It was kind of comical (in a purely charming and farfetched way) watching Lorena Ochoa handily defeat her closest opponents wire-to-wire by eleven strokes at the HSBC. Annika Sorenstam could not muscle up the cojones to take her on. Paula Creamer hadn’t enough reserves in her tank. And according to Ochoa, “on the weekend I wasn’t as good with the putter but I managed to shoot under par every day.” Could Lorena Ochoa be the next “Tiger Woods” of the LPGA Tour? Woods/Ochoa being groomed for greatness Perhaps Annika’s record prior to 2007 is strong like Tiger’s but, if Lorena ...