Tigers, alligators, and bad ideas on the golf course Some people get really bad ideas when they're on the golf course. Tapping an alligator on the nose with a putter (I actually saw someone do this), giving Tiger extra motivation before a match against… more »

At the Accenture Match Play Championships, the numbers (as in world rankings) can be thrown out the window. In a stroke play event, we can usually count a lot of players out from the beginning: maybe the course doesn't set up well for a player; maybe a… more »

Rory Sabbatini is leading the Nissan Open going into Sunday's round; fortunately for us, we won't even need Tiger in contention to see fireworks, because our current leader is more likely to explode than any other player on tour. Sabbatini, who was alre… more »

The last decade in baseball will unfortunately go down in history as the "steroid era", as some players made the long ball their top priority, not only in playing careers, but in their personal lives. Over the last decade in golf, we have seen the same h… more »

Recently, the Golf Channel released the results of a survey that said women are 19 times more likely than men to cry on the golf course. Apparently Vijay Singh was not asked to participate. Vijay's age must finally be catching up with him. Not only is… more »

This weekend while playing with my brother, we had an often-debated rule show its ugly face again. Over the past year, this question has arisen on two or three occasions and we have never taken the time to check the official rules. On three separate inst… more »

I enjoyed experimenting with different balls more than any of the aforementioned products, possibly because I decided that I would test each ball mentioned below over the course of a full round, as players need to hit all types of shots to figure which b… more »

On Monday after the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl, the team gathered at Qwest Field to thank the fans and to celebrate a truly great season. In the weeks leading up to the game, most people seemed to believe that the Seahawks didn't stand a chance against… more »

This morning when I was watching Golf Central over a bowl of cereal, they showed a statistic claiming that men are 18 times more likely than women to break a golf club on the course, while women are 19 times more likely to cry. (This is the same study th… more »

The next stage of my ongoing equipment review for the high-handicap player brings me to irons, which have undergone considerable changes-even more drastic than the ball or driver-over the last 2 to 3 years. While cavity-back irons used to be the norm for… more »