For a while, there were high hopes around here for the U.S. team in the upcoming Presidents Cup. Mainly due to momentum. You see, in recent years, U.S. teams have lost every event in every sport, played anywhere against anyone, under any rules. Maybe that’s an over exaggeration, but not by much. After literally decades of wiping the floor with the world in all manner of sport, the last several years have been a time of depressing comeuppance, as U.S. teams have lost in golf, basketball, baseball, boxing, rugby, jai lai, etc., etc. Recently, however, it seems times have changed. In ...

New Jersey is known as the Garden State, which is much better than it’s other nickname, the Fifth Circle of Hell. Basically, New Jersey is like the anti-New York, except with more humidity and pollution. And sure, I’m willing to accept that many will take umbrage with painting New jersey as the place where Satan hangs out, and that’s completely understandable. In fact, I’m sure there are positively wonderful people who live there, and it really is a fine place and all. But when I see two guys from N.J. score back-to-back hole in ones, it only enhances my belief that Satan ...

At the end of Tour Championship, as Tiger Woods was awarded the trophy for his dominant victory, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem jumped in to give him the FedEx Cup trophy, while talking about how wildly fabulous Tiger was. As Finchem handed Tiger the trophy, he eagerly said: “This trophy has never been kissed.” Tiger didn’t kiss the trophy. And Finchem was immediately transformed into the 15-year-old boy at the school dance that the girls keep turning down. It was just a little bit sad. –WKW

Golf courses throughout the land are preparing for a stellar fall and winter season, as O.J. Simpson will soon likely be playing golf throughout the nation, in search of the person(s) that have sullied his good name and possibly committed theft at a Las Vegas Hotel-Casino. “Police: Simpson questioned in alleged theft” (CNN) – Former college and NFL star running back O.J. Simpson has been questioned as a possible suspect in an alleged theft at a hotel-casino, a Las Vegas, Nevada, police spokesman said Friday. But Simpson told The Associated Press that he was conducting “a sting operation” to collect sports memorabilia that ...

With both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson preparing to play in the Tour Championship, some are pointing to this as a definitive success for Tim Finchem’s grand FedEx Cup playoffs plan. And by all means, it will make for an interesting Tour Championship, especially with both Tiger and Lefty playing at a seriously high level. It should be a stellar finish. Of course, if this is considered a success for the FedEx Cup, then what does it mean that Woods won’t be playing in the Grand Slam of Golf? “Woods withdraws from Grand Slam of Golf” World No 1 Tiger Woods has pulled out ...

In the U.S., playing a round of golf without a golf cart is like ordering the triple cheeseburger without a side order of super-sized bacon-cheese fries. It just doesn’t happen. Still, there are those fighting for their right to walk. Recently, in fact, the Associated Press ran a story about how many golfers are getting ticked off over the fact that at more and more golf courses, walking just isn’t an option any longer. There’s even a book out titled “A Civil Right: The Freedom to Walk a Public Golf Course,” by one Dan Zurla, a retiree who has gone so ...

Reading through the Associated Press coverage of Phil Mickelson’s stirring victory over Tiger Woods and the field over this Labor Day weekend, one truly comes to a simple realization - the AP is not going in for any of this FedEx Cup stuff whatsoever. In the AP coverage of the Deutsche Bank Championship, the words “FedEx Cup” came up exactly once - and that was in a quote from Mickelson. If not for that, you would never know that PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem’s master playoff plan even existed. Mickelson’s victory over Woods wasn’t stirring because of how it affected the FedEx ...

It feels like it’s been forever since Phil Mickelson was laying waste to a course on the PGA Tour, but that’s exactly what’s happening at the Deutsche Bank Championship. Three birdies in five holes has Lefty tied a shot up on Arron Oberholser with last week’s winner Steve Stricker just two shots behind. And three shots off the pace is Tiger Woods. Yes, playing in the same group, Mickelson and Tiger may battle it all the way down to the end at TPC Boston. Could a magic finish be the impetus for making the FedEx Cup a grand success? Of course ...