Allen Doyle’s swing makes Jim Furyk’s look like Ben Hogan’s, he makes Lee Trevino look like Ernie Els. There was only one full-swing highlight of Allen Doyle on Sunday’s sportscasts, and believe me, it was enough to make toddlers cry and women run from the room. Doyle didn’t win the ACE Group Classic. He was caught and passed by Bobby Wadkins on the final hole. But the silver medal did little to diminish Doyle’s stature as one of the most successful and compelling Champions Tour figures of the last decade. He’s got 11 wins, including four majors, including back-to-back Senior ...

I’m busy squabbling with my friends (term used loosely) at Delta Airlines. The phone calls, the passenger property loss claims form, the internet searches, all because they’ve mislaid the tools of my trade. My golf bag. Where could my weaponry be? Pilfered by a malevolent baggage handler in Cancun? Sitting unclaimed in some dusty corner of Hartsfield International? Picked off a baggage carousel by some numbskull whose travel bag was the same shade of royal blue, too preoccupied to check the nametag? Sent off to some other city, a myopic airline employee mistaking Savannah’s airport code of SAV for SAB? ...

Good to see “Fairway” Fred Funk win the PGA Tour’s Mayakoba Golf Classic south of Cancun this past Sunday. I was privileged to visit the resort this past December with a few members of the golf press, and was most impressed with Greg Norman’s El Camaleon course. It’s a stunning amalgamation of jungle-lined fairways, ball-gobbling cenotes (mid-fairway caves that lead to underground rivers) ice-blue canals, rock quarries, and a couple of seaside par 3s. The only downside to the trip was having my entire golf bag, and all contents therein, ripped off at the Cancun airport on the way home, ...