At some point, Phil Mickelson must have gotten tired of hearing what a phony he is. I guess Lefty decided to get people’s mind back on his game. 63-65? Are you kidding me? Heck, if you put up those numbers on PlayStation, you’re looking to hit pause and show someone. A truly great two days by Mickelson at the BellSouth Classic at the TPC at Sugarloaf down in Georgia. Of course, when he doesn’t win the Masters, let me just be the first to get this out there – he obviously peaked too soon. Though if it makes you feel any better, I ...

While Lorena Ochoa was busy getting her name in LPGA history books with a staggering 10-under 62, Michelle Wie went from the classroom to the first major of the year in style, with a sterling 66. Morgan Pressel did little to disappoint with a 3-under 69. Annika Sorenstam didn’t blow anyone away, going one-under her first round, and Natalie Gulbis, who has been solid all year, was disappointing with a 1-over round. It will be interesting to watch what transpires the next few days. While obviously anything can happen, a few things come to mind. Ochoa obviously can’t keep this up, but she ...

On the outside, golf and auto racing couldn’t be much different. Sure, it can be said both contain elements of chess, but one requires you to be blasting over terra firma at reckless speeds while plotting your moves. The sports attract a different type of person, as well. Or perhaps, their respective sports eventually help define them into being different types of people. Golfers grow up in clubhouses and walking over grass, often in a lonely pursuit. Race-car drivers grow up in garages, and work with others as a team the whole way through. It is no wonder golfers can be ...

Reading Mark Nessmith’s admission of swearing too much, I was struck by not only his honesty, but his overall lameness. I’m sure he swears some, but no clue hath he. I swear like an angry, drunken, herpes-addled sailor who just found out his parrot found another shoulder on which to perch. Add to this that I live in a country where most people don’t understand me anyway, and that my wife speaks English as a second language, and I have the freedom to speak like a Tarantino character. Look at me, opening up. Isn’t this sweet. Anyway, speaking of bad taste, ...

Right now in Orlando, Fla., the best golfers in the world are teeing it up in the Tavistock Cup. One would expect a tournament, even an unofficial one, with the best players in the world competing would garner more media attention. Alas, the fact that it’s a “tournament” for pros like Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Sergio Garcia to collect a few hundred thousand while glad-handing corporate money men seems to put the media off a bit. From the Tavistock Web site: “Established in the 1980’s, Tavistock Group is a private company whose holdings include real estate, bio-technology/life science ...

The Golfer Supremacy Rankings constantly come under fire from other golf rankings, who accuse the GSR of not taking many vital factors into consideration. Remember one important thing, however: other golf rankings are stupid. That being said, there are some huge developments on this week’s Golfer Supremacy Rankings. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Stephen Ames Comments: Ames talked tough to Tiger Woods at the Match Play Championships and got his butt handed back to him, 9 to 8. Many pundits waited patiently for Ames to politely dig a hole and die, but the Trinidad native didn’t seem to get the memo. By obliterating the field at ...

For unrepentant Duke haters like Chris Baldwin and Drew Curtis, yesterday’s Duke loss to LSU had to be like having their birthday fall on the same day that their new Playboy arrived – so good they had to lie down. Add to that Gonzaga falling apart against UCLA and the NCAA’s have now lost two of their biggest stars – Adam Morrison and J.J. Redick. With the second day of the Players Championship getting ready to kick off, one wonders if the “5th major” will be losing some of its biggest stars soon. Guys like Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and David ...

Rush Limbaugh’s statements regarding Michelle Wie showed why ESPN was willing to take the risk on him as a football analyst. Limbaugh is nothing if not an intelligent, charismatic speaker. As an entertainer, Limbaugh demands respect. He’s taken what Tokyo Rose, Wally George, Morton Downey Jr., and some others have done, and really made it into an art form. It’s a helluva shtick, as I’m sure his paycheck’s attest. That shtick – making simplistic ideological points while shouting down those that oppose – has been copied by the likes of Anne Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and Michael Savage, and is now a basic ...

There appears to be some type of strange correlation between hitting a golf ball extremely far and insanity. Once you start hitting a golf ball around 350 yards, each additional yard you add seems to add to your weirdness factor. Which may explain why Dan Boever is one odd cat. Luckily for Boever, this oddness works perfectly for his job: a long-driving golf entertainer. I spoke with Boever – a former minor-league baseball player – for a story at GolfInstruction.com and felt like I was a spectator at one of his shows. This is a funny guy, who puts as much stock ...

Watching the Ford Motor Company go about its business is at once comedy and tragedy. Of course, such shouldn’t be surprising from a company started by a man who both revolutionized the concept of middle-class in the U.S., while at the same time funding magazines like The Dearborn Independent, which had a propensity for publishing articles like “The International Jew, the World’s Foremost Problem.” Nowadays, when a sleeve of golf balls will run you well more than Ford stock, the penchant for maintaining a dual identity continues. According to the Detroit Free Press, as part of its “Way Forward” program (Translation: Countdown ...

We receive literally millions of e-mails daily asking how we put together the Golfer Supremacy Rankings. Some offer bribes, kickbacks or sparkly things in order to get a golfer ranked higher. Sure, we could let a company like say, Titleist make these decisions for us, but we choose to follow our own hearts. This is yet one more reason why the Golfer Supremacy Rankings are the most important golf rankings in the known universe. And don’t you forget it. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Greg Owen Comments: It takes a special kind of man to throw away 71 holes of great golf with a brain ...

About a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that local municipalities may seize private property for development purposes. As one could imagine, this decision caused outrage and confusion. Would municipalities take advantage? In Manhasset, New York, the Village of North Hills has decided to see just how far this new definition of eminent domain will go. In a move sure to tickle Hugo Chavez, the Village of North Hills has made it clear that owning property means jack in their jurisdiction, and has announced plans to take over Deepdale Golf Club, a 175-acre privately owned facility, and make it a public ...

The Bay Hill Invitational, which will officially change its name to “Arnold Palmer’s Baby” in 2007, is off to a roaring start. With the first round coming to a close, the leaderboard is looking star-studded, as within two shots of the lead are: Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Bernhard Langer, Mike Weir, Sergio Garcia, Camilo Villegas, Shaun Micheel and Ben Curtis. I could be wrong, but from my count, the owners of 18 majors are off to a solid start. It appears the 2006 PGA Tour may be getting officially underway down in Florida, and should be a very interesting weekend for the ...

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan resigned today, because of the unstoppable controversy caused when he played golf while a railway strike was causing transport chaos. Right on. While I am no Lee Hae-chan hater, let me just say this – he picked the wrong sport to mess with. Few political pundits would ever have imagined the names Jack Abramoff, Lee Hae-chan and Tom DeLay would be interlinked, but golf made it happen. More importantly, it’s nice to see a nation shake off a major politician due to something like this. We continually see politicians skate over such nonsense, and I question ...

The Scene: After finishing 73rd and last at the Honda Classic, Mark O’Meara is home, looking confused. While he’s pleased that he’s not this guy, he knows his game needs help. He used his one-time top-50 career money list exemption to play the 2006 PGA Tour, and he’s running out of ideas. O’Meara looks forlornly at his dusty British Open and Masters trophies and decides something needs to be done. He goes to the phone and starts dialing. phone rings. O’Meara: Hey Tiger! How’s it going buddy? It’s Mark. I was thinking we could have a few beers, talk about life, hit ...

The staff that helps put together William K. Wolfrum’s Golfer Supremacy Rankings are seriously overworked, but they do it for you, and for universal clarity of what golf rankings really are. Plenty of movement in the GSR’s this week, which is bound to happen when there are no set ranking criterion except winning. Still, after an action-packed week, some old favorites are back on top of the game, and some new names have made their way into the GSR’s. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Annika Sorenstam Comments: The queen pocketed $180,000 and her 67th career LPGA Tour victory by winning the MasterCard Classic in Huixquilucan, ...

Many around the world think Americans adore women’s soccer. They remember the big hub-bub we had in the U.S. a few year’s back with the Women’s World Cup and think that’s how American’s react to women’s soccer all the time. It’s kind of how you’d think Colombians were crazy for golf the way they’re getting all excited over Camilo Villegas. Villegas “He’s got a lot of charisma,” David Toms, who tied Villegas for second at Doral, told the Miami Herald. “A Latin American playing great on the tour can’t be bad for our following, that’s for sure.” Villegas, who finished tied for second ...

Coming across the betting odds for golf’s biggest upcoming events, I was struck full force with one thought: “People actually bet on golf?” Basically it was a press release with the Hey-look-at-me headline of something like “Masters, Tiger Woods, Michelle Wie, Ryder Cup and Britney Spears Sex Scene odds!” It was for one of those numerous sports betting sites, which I believe was dudeyourebettingontheinternetyoureallydohaveaproblem.com In case you’re interested, Tiger is a 5-2 favorite to win the Masters, Europe is slightly favored to win the Ryder Cup and the odds on Michelle Wie winning at least one major this year are set at ...

Kirby Puckett spent a good amount of his final years on the golf course, which in itself is a shame – he should have still been on the baseball diamond. Puckett died yesterday at the all-too-young age of 45. But it really seems that a big part of him died nearly a decade earlier, when at 36, glaucoma in his right eye forced him out of professional baseball. While leading the Minnesota Twins to two World Series championships, Puckett was baseball. In his final year in the Major Leagues, Puckett hit .314 with 23 home runs. He should have easily played into ...

Having spent the better part of the last decade watching a decent portion of its fan base throw up its hands and proclaim “Why am I watching this?,” Major League Baseball has decided to go nationalistic with the World Baseball Classic. Nations from around the globe will be competing in the WBC, with the venues for the first round being: Japan, San Diego, Arizona and Puerto Rico. Games have begun in Japan, and will begin in the other locations tomorrow. The WBC could very well be the bellwether moment for baseball’s continued popularity. The Bay Hill Invitational will be concluding on the ...

Golf is once again playing a leading role as mankind prepares for its latest leap into stupidity. From NewScientistSpace.com: “Russia plans to hit a golf ball into Earth orbit from the International Space Station. If NASA approves the plan, the ball would set records for the longest drive ever made – but some experts warn that a mishap could cause “catastrophic” damage to the station.” So why are the Russians planning to smack a golf ball around in outer space? Well, the plan is part of a commercial deal between the Russian space agency and Toronto, Canada’s Element 21 Golf Company. Yes, the ...

By virtue of winning the Princess Lalla Meriem Cup at the Royal Dar es Salaam Golf Club in Rabat, Morocco, Sophie Sandolo has become much more than just a fabulous babe that poses naked with golf clubs, she’s become a winner. She’s also earned the No. 1 ranking in the official first occasional William K. Wolfrum Golfer Supremacy Rankings. Unlike many rankings which can be accused of showing bias, the WKWGSR’s will be the World’s most fair ranking of true golf greatness. By using these simple criteria – 1) However I happen to feel at the moment, and 2) Winning – the ...