Tomorrow, Russian and American astronauts on the International Space Station will conduct a five-plus-hour spacewalk. And at no point during their time in space will any of them golf. Now, if you’re anything like me, there are only two things in life: One: wacky, possibly cataclysmic outer-space golf promotions, and Two: everything else. This is why I personally feel betrayed by the Element 21 Golf Company – they said they’d deliver a Russian astronaut bashing a golf ball into orbit around the planet. They got tons of publicity for this idea, and now, they didn’t deliver. And don’t give me this guff about reports ...

A couple decades back, I was on a hunting trip to Wyoming with several family members and friends. We hunted deer and antelope at a ranch near Douglas, owned by some colorful old geezer. In between giving the ground lead poisioning shooting at our prey, we found out a lot about the old guy, namely his decades-long feud with his brother, who lived at the ranch next door. We even got to hear a long, terrifying description of how he blew away his bother’s cat when it got to his property. A year later, sadly, the brother got his payback, blowing away ...

Here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings, we often ponder if we have enough stature to get media credentials to a tournament featuring the likes of Virada Nirapathpongporn, Hee-Won Han and Brandie Burton. We like to think we do, but we’ve been known to be a tad delusional. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. David Howell Comments: Howell did the hometown fans proud by blitzing a stellar BMW Championship field and winning by five strokes. A great moment for Englishmen everywhere, and hopefully this will take some of the sting off of the England’s nightmarish collapse and early exit from the upcoming World Cup. 2. Jay Haas Comments: ...

Call me a relentless self promoter if you must, but after just nine episodes, one thing is extremely clear – the TravelGolf.com This Week Podcast is the best golf podcast going. (Listen to it here) The main reason is this: Host Dave Berner doesn’t go for the forced-amateurish, buddy banter that seems to dominate the podcasts I’ve heard. You’ve heard some of these podcasts, you know, they go something like: Golf Expert Guy 1: Alright, here we are, the podcast. Golf Expert Guy 2: Yeah, the podcast! Golf Expert Guy 1: Michelle Wie! Golf Expert Guy 2: That’s what I’m talking about. Golf Expert Guy 1: ...

The biggest show in golf this week is happening at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England – as the best of Europe is battling it out at the BMW Championship. The Golf Channel, bless their hearts, are dedicating three hours a day – from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Thursday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. over the weekend. Times are EST. Most U.S. golf fans will be able to catch a good chunk of the event, albeit at some minor discomfort, especially for West Coast fans. So while the time elements will make it impossible to show all the action ...

According the News & Observer in North Carolina, three days after Mother’s Day on May 17, Petty Officer Third Class Lee Hamilton Deal, 23, was killed in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. Deal was from West Monroe, La., and was a Navy sailor assigned to North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune. From the News & Observer: “During their early Mother’s Day conversation, Melanie Deal (Lee’s mother) wanted to know if her son had received the DVDs of the Master’s golf tournament she had recorded for him. ‘He was a big golf fan,’ Melanie Deal said. “He tried to play every chance he got whenever he was in ...

Here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings, we’d like to celebrate the life of Orson Welles, who was born 91 years ago this month. Welles was a dynamic actor, writer and director who turned wine pitch man, and exceedingly fat. For this, he is to be commended. Same with Marlon Brando, now that we think about it. Dude was like a truck at the end. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Tim Herron Comments: Speaking for the vast array of fat white guys wiling away the hours here at the TravelGolf.com Super-Fantastic Golf Blog Squad of Tremendousness (or whatever the hell it is we call ourselves), let ...

When Tiger Woods obliterated the field in the 1997 Masters to become the youngest champion in that tournament’s storied history, it was a merging of brilliance in every way imaginable. Tiger was playing in a way no one was familiar with and handling it all with an otherworldly grace. Plus, at just 21, his youth mesmerized us as he acted every bit the energetic, fun, young man that he was. It was, in a word, thrilling. In 2006, LeBron James is doing the same thing in the NBA Playoffs. The Cleveland Cavaliers’ superstar has his team one game from a landscape-changing upset ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of Golf by Addition, the blog that shows once and for all that math can prove anything. Creamer + Shoot = ? Paula Creamer, about a fashion show she’ll be involved in prior to the Sybase Classic. “There will be another Paula there, Paula Abdul. I think we’re a lot alike,” Creamer said. TravelGolf.com’s favorite feminist, Brittany Shoot, going off on sexism in video logging. “But more than likely I’m going to get a bunch of responses from a bunch of white guys, and that’s why this is f….d up.” This woman here, golfing on a fat white guy’s ...

If the LPGA doesn’t want Barry and Stacy Solomon, then they have no idea who they want. In a Golf for Beginners blog, the Solomons recount their battle to get media credentials for the upcoming Sybase Classic. “The LPGA does not acknowledge blogs (or podcast media) as recognizable news outlets working on assignment and on deadline,” they were told by one of the LPGA’s corporate stooges. Now don’t get me wrong, of the 8.75 trillion bloggers out there these days, there are plenty I wouldn’t recognize, either. As a reader and strong believer of free speech, however, bloggers have added a new ...

To: Rules Committee From: Tim Finchem Re: New golf rules proposal Hey guys, As per our discussion, here are some proposed rule changes for our game. I really think these will help everyone. Peace Out, Timmy New rules proposal 1. If you aren’t healthy enough to play golf, you’re no longer allowed to be married to Catherine Zeta Jones. 2. Players whose first and last names start with the letter “R” must meet myriad requirements in order to play in any tournament, anywhere, regardless of fan interest. This is a follow-up to our earlier “Let’s jerk around Rick Rhoden” discussion. 3. All PGA players named “Brett Wetterich” ...

The people behind the Golfer Supremacy Rankings fully agree that sexism is rampant on the Internet and needs to be eliminated. We hereby would like to wish a pox upon Heather McMichael and all the other hysterical spazzes who are blind to the feelings of others. Also: A belated welcome to Asian hottie Dot Wong to the WorldGolf.com blog team. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Byron Nelson Comments: The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to award Byron Nelson a Congressional Gold Medal. The award is to honor the philanthropy efforts of the namesake of the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. A nice move by the ...

If you’re anything like me, you find nearly all aspects of life completely unbearable with the exception of two things – golf and legendary, deceased actor Jose Ferrer. Swoon, I say. Swoon! Now, thanks to Yahoo Auctions, we “golferrer’s” (as we prefer to be called) finally get to see our two obsessions combined. Yes, for almost a stupidly insane low price, you can be the owner of authentic golf sketches by the renowned super-latino. Why Jose Ferrer? Well, if not Jose Ferrer, than who?? Are you people blind? I’m talking Jose Ferrer here. The Jose Ferrer Files Jose Ferrer: Who twice married and divorced Rosemary ...

Ok, maybe it’s time to accept that green fees are getting out of hand at some courses. In Maryland, Thomas C. Springer told a judge that he needed money to play golf. That’s why he robbed a bank last November. Seems that Springer walked into a Chevy Chase Bank in Kensington, gave the teller a note saying he was robbing the joint. As surprising as this may seem, it appears Springer didn’t really plan things out well, and managed to only get away with $400. Which was booby trapped with a dye pack, which immediately exploded. He was arrested minutes after. According to ...

My late grandfather always had a taste for gambling and was surprisingly good at it. However, when he was young and newly married he lost $1,000 playing craps. Back then that was a fairly ridiculously high sum. Unwilling to tell my grandmother about his loss until he rectified it, he did the only thing he could think of to get the money back. He worked harder and put $3 in a drawer every day for a year. When my grandmother learned a year later that he’d lost $1,000, she was handed $1,100. These were a different breed of people. Today, John Daly admits ...

There are religions, there are scams, and then there is the Temple of Love. Yes, the Temple of Love, a search-engine optimizer’s dream cult is here to make everything better. This is a sect that tells it like it is, asks the tough questions and panders endlessly to Google. It’s also one of the few religions that prominently features golf. Temple of Love: An analysis Here are some of the selling points of the Temple of Love: “We are trading in the breathtaking scenes of nature … for a real live Hell on Earth – Michelle Wie vaporized in the middle of her backswing ...

“Tomorrow night, after tonights (sic) show, I’ve decided to have some strippers over. All are welcome however there will be no nudity. i plan on killing the bitches as soon as the[y] walk in and proceding (sic) to cut their skin off.” – E-mail message sent by a Duke University lacrosse player literally minutes after a stripper accused players on the team of rape. As qualities go, petulant smugness is not an attractive one for the leader of one of the most respected golf tournaments in the land. So when Billy Payne took over for Hootie Johnson as the chairman of Augusta National ...

Here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings, if just one person appreciates what we do, well, that’s one more than we expected. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Jim Furyk Comments: A while ago I came to the realization that Mr. Show actor/comedian Tom Kenny is a doppelganger for Furyk. I just needed to wait for Furyk to notch a win or go on a crime spree or something so I could bring it up. As he is prone to do, Furyk came through with a victory at the Wachovia Championship. Furyk’s awesome and Kenny will play him in the movie Jim Furyk’s the Man. Combined, ...

When Lou Saban arrived as the new coach of the Buffalo Bills in 1972, it didn’t take him long to go through his inventory and see the future of his team. “We’ve got Secretariat out there, and we’re going to run him,” reportedly said Saban in so many words, with the Secretariat in question being a young, poorly used O.J. Simpson. The results were staggering – two years removed from a 1-13 season, Buffalo rode the pre-murder-trial Simpson for an NFL-record 2,003 yards, and made it to the playoffs. More than 30 years removed from Saban seeing the obvious, it’s time someone tell ...

When Aaron Baddeley let it be known that he dedicated his final putt to Jesus during his Verizon Heritage victory it was a touching moment. Nonetheless, members of other major religions felt terribly left out. Even members of smaller religions like snake-handlers and Scientologists grumbled about the horrible unfairness of it all, with Scientologists going as far as threatening to make a sequel to Battlefield Earth if such behavior continued. This is where Baddeley deserves credit, however. He is what he is and believes what he believes. And if you are a true believer, you should shout your feelings from the mountaintops ...

“We’re sorry, Michelle can’t come out this weekend, she’s playing golf with the boys” Showing no signs of falling apart, Michelle Wie made the cut at the SK Telecom Open in Incheon, South Korea – a men’s event. For those looking to keep up with Wie this weekend, check out the tournament leaderboard here, and keep in mind that they are keeping track of her by her Korean name – Wi Sung Mi (thanks to One-Putt and John Neal for that info). And the infamous and dangerous Wie Warriors? Well, they seem thrilled. No one is about to say Wie made the cut ...

Upon finding out that Jennifer Mario’s book Michelle Wie: The Making of a Champion will soon be hitting book stores, I immediately went to work on trying to think of something that I did in the past that could qualify as cool. I came up with something, and this is true: I have edited a Stephen King story. Yes, that Stephen King. It happened while I was a copy editor for New York Yankees Magazine. The editor for the magazine was a big King fan, and had written him several times to see if he would be interested in writing a story ...

One even-par round and the argument changes. A two-under-par 70 in the first round of the SK Telecom Open in Incheon, South Korea has Michelle Wie five shots off the lead after one round in a men’s event. At five shots back, it’s pretty much guaranteed that a 72 will have her playing over the weekend, becoming the first American female golfer to that in a men’s event since Babe Zaharias at the 1945 Los Angeles Open. So Wie, who has charmed corporations along with the population of South Korea, is just one round away from giving her dream some added substance. ...

New York is an interesting place, filled with lots of people that are extremely impressed with the fact that they live in New York, while simultaneously and secretly wanting to move. Throughout the five boroughs, however, New York is a great place and the people aren’t nearly as rude as they have been stereotyped. If New Yorkers have one major shared flaw, it’s this – they are champions when it comes to mocking one’s failures. So Tallgrass Golf Club caddie Eugene Palumbo should have known he was in for it when he lost twice to a woman at a tournament at the ...

The Golfer Supremacy Rankings have a strict stance on illegal immigration. If you can’t get in this country legally, than we don’t want you. Of course, the GSR’s employ several hundred illegal aliens. Cheap labor, you understand. It’s the American way. Golfer Supremacy Rankings: A rankings without an immigrant 1. Chris Couch: Comments: A week ago, Couch was lost in New Orleans, getting in cars with the “wrong kind of people” and being rescued by the police. Then, with a victory at the Zurich Classic in his reach, Couch nearly threw it all away, only to save himself with a miraculous 55-foot chip ...