Not long ago, Tiger Woods, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, gave this response to a reporter who asked him if Tiger would push his future son into playing soccer. “No, not soccer,” Woods said. “Hopefully something more physical.” TravelGolf.com blogger Chris Baldwin found this slightly too amusing. “Now, that’s funny. Because it’s true,” wrote Baldwin, taking some time off of writing about his favorite Hollywood stars. While Tiger has a physicality somewhat unique to golfers, there is one thing he won’t have to worry about - getting booted in the head, knocked out, then swallowing his tongue. Courtesy of our friends at Throughball.com, here’s ...

We here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings have come to the conclusion that 2008 Presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo must despise professional golf these days. Tancredo, hoping to be elected on the “Hispanics, Hey, Let’s Round Them Up and Kill Them” platform, has been seeing his worst nightmares become reality recently. First, Mexicana Lorena Ochoa has become a dominant force in the LPGA, taking home 2006 Player of the Year honors. And now, the PGA is actually going out of its way to host tournaments in Mexico. Tancredo, who represents Colorado in the House of Representatives, also is likely not overly thrilled ...

A lot of people in charge spend a great deal of time wondering why we, the Golfer Supremacy Rankings, need a staff of over 400, 14 vehicles, and unfettered access to Air Force One. But there’s a reason for this extravagance. You see, we’ve been preparing to unveil this, our new master plan that will change how golf historians view the game - Golfer Supremacy-ipidia. Yes, some day, with the help of readers, we believe Golf Supremacy-ipidia will have all the pertinent information on every golfer in the history of the known universe. It’s a truly thrilling project that we’ve approached with ...

Not along ago, I would have never spent any of my valuable time critiquing a blog from the USGA. It would just seem wrong. Once they got all corporated up, however, signing deals with American Express and Lexus, it became open season. So it was with some interest I perused Ken Klavon’s Feb. 20 post, looking intently to see if we could detect a new corporate bias from the USGA in their new “official” blog. I was not disappointed. USGA Blog: Communicating 101 Happy Tuesday. Coming back after a holiday always seems tough at first, but I often realize how refreshed I feel. Such ...

Welcome everyone to the latest installment of “Knee-Jerk Theatre,” the blog where we take a recent sporting event, and look at how other bloggers completely freaked out over it. Today we’ll be looking at how bloggers reacted to Phil Mickelson’s second-place finish at the Nissan Open, as he lost in a playoff to Charles Howell III in his effort to win consecutive PGA Tour events. Knee-Jerk Theatre Here’s what some bloggers (picked at random) had to say about Mickelson’s loss, which saw him bogey Hole No. 18, and then three-putt on the third playoff hole to open the door for Howell, ...

More often than not when I leave the house, some paparazzi type will approach me and start asking questions about TravelGolf.com blogger Ron Mon. In such instances I’m normally left with no recourse other than to beat said paparazzi type within one inch of his life. Because life is measured in inches, feet and yards, and don’t you forget it. Because Ron Mon transcends the game. While us mere mortals peck away at the keyboard, hoping some bored reporter in Pawtucket will use one of our quotes and link to us, Ron Mon is creating long, one-paragraph masterpieces with nary a ...

There’s a funny video floating through the tubes of Internets right about now showing Joe Rogan verbally demolishing fellow comedian Carlos Mencia for stealing material. It seems Mencia (real name: Ned Holness) has a serious reputation for stealing material, something that Rogan feels strongly about, as does golf funnyman apprentice George Lopez, who allegedly roughed up Mencia one night in a parking lot for using his material in an HBO special. It’s one of those great videos where you see the rug completely pulled out from under the guy. An ugly truth is trumpeted in front of Mencia, who has a ...

We do things a little differently here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings. We open our eyes wide and see the big picture. We are big-eyed, wide-picture watchers. If there’s a picture, and it’s big, you can count on us being there watching. If you see us wide-eyed … well, you get the picture. So while so many pundits and ranking systems are spinning out of control because of Phil Mickelson’s victory at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. It was a lovely win and all, but the fact that Lefty is now tied with Charley Hoffman for wins in 2007 means ...

We all have our dirty little Internet secrets. For some, it’s enjoying the blogs at Worldgolf.com and Travelgolf.com. For others, it’s racier fare, like say, taking a look at the latest offering from CaddyChick.com. There’s even some that enjoy the truly nasty and disturbing areas of the Internet, like Chris Baldwin’s blog, for example. But seriously, we all have our secrets. Unless, of course, Texas lawmaker Lamar Smith gets his way. Because if Smith’s “Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY) of 2007″ gets through, you’ll never have any privacy on the Internet again. The bill would require ...

If there is one profession that is over rated to the point of hysteria, it’s “Movie Star.” Face it, it’s by far the easiest job in the world, especially when you factor in the obscenely large paychecks. For goodness sake, even a Scientologist can be a movie star. Being a movie star is kind of like being a pampered dog. Everyone worships you, feeds your ego, and no matter how often you crap on the sofa, people tell you that you’re a “good dog.” The job consists of getting as many chances as you need to “emote” and then, even if ...

Army Maj. Michael Lewis Mundell was killed recently in Iraq. Maj. Mundell, 47, was raised in Canonsburg, Pa., and was a 1977 graduate of Canon-McMillan High School. He had lived in Kentucky for more than 20 years, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Maj. Mundell often returned to Pennsylvania to visit friends and families or join his high school buddies for annual golf outings. Maj. Mundell is survived by his family in Brandenburg, Ky.: his wife, Audrey, and children Erica, 17, Ryan, 14, Zachary, 13, and Dale, 11. –WKW

Being a U.S. Congressmen isn’t easy. You put your reputation on the line, day after day. You sometimes have to spend as many as three days a week doing your job. You have to live off a paltry salary of just $165,000 a year (not counting bribes). Nonetheless, people still work to get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, because they care. They care about the public, and about being a legislator of the strongest nation on Earth. All they really care about is serving the people, and they would never betray their trust. Unless they get a chance to ...

At the Golfer Supremacy Rankings we celebrate diversity. Literally celebrate it. We have diversity festivals, diversity luncheons, diversity surprise parties, and occasionally even diversity brunches. We be diverse. Sadly, we are a golf rankings system, so our view of diversity tends to be in debating whether Charley Hoffman is more white than Aaron Baddeley, then ensuring the less white one doesn’t feel bad about it. So while the PGA celebrates Black History Month and the African-American golfers that blazed new trails on Tour, the current crowd of African-American golfers still consists of one: Tiger Woods. So, as we look back and recognize the ...

There was a time when watching the Super Bowl was like watching the U.S. interrogate a foreigner. Someone got savagely beaten and no one learned anything. San Francisco beat Denver by 45 in Super Bowl XXIV. Dallas trounced Buffalo by 35 in Super Bowl XXVII. Baltimore stomped the Giants by 27 in Super Bowl XXXV. Since the Ravens’ win, however, four of the last five Super Bowls have been competitive battles where the winner was unknown until late in the game. Not this year. Super Bowl XLI promises to take us back to a simpler time. A time when the NFL’s title game ...