Having trouble with a war, you say? Need a little time to formulate a plan that will make future generations ejaculate in awe over the mere mention of your name? Need some good press? Well, just send some PGA golfers to Baghdad! Yes, taking part in the USO’s “Operation Links Handshake Tour” a gaggle of PGA players led by Jerry Kelly and Corey Pavin were in Iraq recently, hitting balls and shaking hands for appreciative troops. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Kelly and the boys spent eight days in the Middle East, visiting U.S. troops at 14 military bases. They ...

When we look back at the young with envy, it’s brothers like Matt and Mike Hannaford of Cape Coral, Fla., that we see. The two are young, energetic and golfers of the highest order - in the last junior golf national ranking Matt is ranked second overall in the 14-15-age division of Florida while Mike is 26th. It would not be surprising to see the Hannaford’s bask in the delicious narcissism that comes with being talented teenagers, but the two are showing game off the course, as well. After a grandparent was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s recently, the brothers took the ...

The Holidays are a time of family, friends, and getting Uncle Bob to stop leering at all the nieces after he’s had one too many Hamms. It’s also a time for TravelGolf.com and WorldGolf.com bloggers to try hurling anything against the wall in hopes that something will stick, in a fairly golf-free time of year. Myself included, let’s just be honest - the last week of December is Hail Mary time. A quick recap of what they’re saying Tim McDonald: “Ocean Course to host PGA Championship in 2012, too bad you’ll all be dead.” Chris Baldwin: “Boobies. Heh heh heh. Boobies.” William K. Wolfrum: “You ...

While I admit I was hard on Tiger Woods for his decision to build a golf course in a country where they abduct kids and make them camel-riding slaves, I really do only wish him the best. I’m certain that Tiger was able to take it like a man, however. His mental make-up is stiff to say the least. Plus, I have nothing but respect for the size of his talent, and truly believe that in 2007, he’s going to come back yet again and take it to the golf world, harder and harder. He’ll definitely spend time thrusting more trophies ...

A crack WorldGolf.com reader wrote in yesterday with an interesting find in the stories that came out about Michelle Wie being accepted into Stanford. You see, most the stories repeated this same line: “Wie said she did not know what she would study, but narrowed it down to business, economics or marketing.” One problem: Stanford doesn’t offer majors in two of those fields. “Nothing wrong with economics, but it’s clearly she did not put the effort into researching about Stanford. If she did, she wouldn’t have considered in majoring in business or marketing. Why? Cause Stanford doesn’t have a business or economics ...

The NBA has been reeling recently after a melee between the New York Knicks and Denver Nuggets. Now, while the NBA has been in damage control, trying desperately to avoid looking as though the league has a violence problem, the majority of fans have a much larger issue with the brawl - mainly, that NBA players have a penchant for fighting like teenage girls catfighting over a dude. I mean, c’mon, Denver’s Carmelo Anthony - the NBA’s scoring leader for God’s sake - made better use of the “hit and sprint” than a cross between Muhammad Ali and Carl Lewis. Sadly, ...

Here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings, putting together a list of the most supreme male golfers of 2006 wasn’t all that difficult. For the most part, there’s just one male golfer that matters anyway. So, really, we could just jot down Tiger Woods’ name in the No. 1 slot, and then go play a rousing game of “Spin the Duck” with Heather McMichael, Dot Wong and the Cheap Bastard. But we went the extra mile, as we always do in ranking the best of the men. and we did it all for You. 1. You Comments: That’s right, You. Hell, if Time Magazine ...

The Slice That Stole Christmas Cast Tiger Woods as himself Michelle Wie as herself Phil Mickelson as Santa Claus John Daly as Rudolph Fred Couples as Little Freddie Couples Greg Norman as himself B.J. Wie as himself With Tim Finchem as The Nike Executive Act One Scene: Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie are hitting golf balls into the ocean off of Tiger’s private yacht. Tiger: Good one, Michelle, you’ll be better than me in no time. Michelle: Oh Tiger, stop teasing. I’m better than you now. (Both laugh and then are startled by a noise. It’s Santa Claus and his sleigh, they crashed!) Michelle: Oh no, it’s Santa! Santa: Um, ho, ho? Tiger: Santa, what happened? Santa: ...

Playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Lecanto, Fla., NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson decided it would be wild fun to be on the roof of a moving golf cart. Of course, he fell off, breaking his wrist and then lied about it, telling reporters he was in the cart when he fell. “Jimmie was horsing around and was on top of the golf cart when he fell off,” spokeswoman Kristine Curley told the Associated Press. “He wasn’t trying to deceive anyone and is sorry if anyone believes he was being untruthful.” I suppose the equivalent of the NASCAR champ getting hurt on ...

We here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings are thrilled to bring you our first year-end ranking of the most supreme women golfers of 2006. For more or less all of 2005 and 2006, we here at the GSR’s have been hearing about the amazing potential of women’s golf, as fans have talked about Michelle Wie, Paula Creamer, Morgan Pressel and Natalie Gulbis as stars who are ready to take the LPGA to the next level. Doing a little math, however, we came up with these stats, which shows that the while the game may be changing, it really isn’t changing in ...

Was it just a few months ago that many in the U.S. were stunned to find out that a Dubai company was going to pay to run several prominent U.S. ports? Even now, during a time when the U.S. is willing to try and privatize everything from social security to interrogating Iraqis, it was a little much for many to swallow. Critics came out of the woodwork then to fight the deal, pointing out that two of the Sept. 11 hijackers came from the U.A.E., and that the plot was in part financed by funds from bank accounts in Dubai. Even ...

Taking my cue from ESPN.com columnist Scoop Jackson, I spent a good part of the morning working on a blog written from the perspective of a golf ball. “Look at me, I’m a Maxfli Noodle. I have a soft-yet-durable Surlyn cover. Whoops, you just sliced me into a lake, glug-glug-glug … “ Then I realized it was a bit of a crap idea. Much like Jackson’s nearly 4,000-word column from the perspective of the new NBA basketball. It included such dynamic word play as: “But I’ve tried to keep it exciting. I mean, purposely slipped out of Yao’s hand so that Lil’ 50 ...

For one hour a week, every week (-ish) we here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings toil away at the GSR Super Computer, anxiously awaiting it to spit out the rankings that the golf-rankings-hungry population craves. We put in five, sometimes six hours a month, often sleeping less than 14 hours a night. Like professional golfers, we are horribly overworked souls who do what we do because we love the game. We thank our lucky stars, however, that we aren’t politicians, who as we know are the hardest working entities in the known galaxy. Luckily, U.S. Representative Mike Pence recently set everyone ...