The Tavistock Cup, an exclusive tournament that you shouldn’t even know or think about, played at a destination you’ll never see by golfers you’ll never actually meet and watched by elite humans who wouldn’t spit on you if you were aflame, was delayed nearly three hours, due to rain delay that affected play at the CA Championship in Doral. Tiger Woods was one of the players that was forced to finish his final round on Monday, but he managed to get to the Tavistock Cup venue (which is in Florida, and that’s all you need to know) for his tee time ...

When I saw the headline from Geoff Shackelford - “We feel we are democratising golf” - my blood ran cold. Because as we’ve all learned, you can’t democratize anything without leaving hundreds of thousands of corpses. Then questions starting slamming into my mind - Would golfers be bombarded with a “Shock and Awe” type attack so that golf democracy could be put into place while golfers were too terrorized and beaten down to respond? Would golfers even be able to understand Democracy after decades of living under the twin tyrannical regimes of the USGA and PGA? Would everyone involved in the ...

While I hope everyone’s having a Happy Easter (or, for the non-Christians a “Happy Sunday"), I just thought I’d pop in with a quick Tiger Woods update. And no, this doesn’t have much to do with what Tiger’s up to at the WGC-CA Championship at Doral, aside from the fact that he’s three shots off the lead, giving headline writers around the globe the opportunity to use the phrase “Tiger Lurking.” Now, as a golf blogger here at WorldGolf.com, I’m not exactly sure what my real powers are, so I’m not sure if this actually becomes law, but it might. No ...

A few of my relatives on the Italian side of my family used to half-joke, half-gripe that Italians were the last group of people in the U.S. who it was still ok to bash for their ethnicity. They were and are still given gangster associations, called wops and other derogatory terms. And the fact is, they were right, as many in the media will use Italian stereotypes readily and happily. But when it comes to degrading speech toward a segment of society, Italians can’t hold a torch to what the overweight in this nation go through. And how the media treats ...

When my colleague and brother-from-another-mother Brandon Tucker wrote me recently about Golf.com’s Senior Editor Michael Walker Jr. blatantly stealing my “God comes back to Earth to play golf against Tiger Woods” idea that I had used so effectively nearly a year ago at BadGolfer.com, I had two thoughts: One, imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and two, I’m sure it’s nowhere as good as mine. On the former, there’s no way Walker Jr., would give me credit for the idea. The mainstream golf writing world has no real use for me, you see. I’m too “in your face,” and “radical,” ...

As a golf blogger of some note, I spend a good deal of my time thinking about Tiger Woods’ hydration. Is he hydrating enough? Is he rehydrating properly? Are there enough scientists working around the clock to insure that his hydration levels are at peak capacity? Luckily, my mind was put at ease when Paul Dalessio of Fleishman-Hillard and representing Gatorade sent me an e-mail, notifying me of the exciting news in the world of Tigdration. “Gatorade Tiger is a new line of Gatorade Thirst Quencher formulated for Tiger Woods in great-tasting flavors he selected. Gatorade Tiger provides the same carbohydrate ...

Tiger Woods won his fifth consecutive PGA Tour event on Sunday, sinking a dramatic putt on the final hole to take home the title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and keeping alive the possibility of an undefeated 2008. Immediately after the event, however, the question arose: If Tiger or his Isleworth team lose at the upcoming Tavistock Cup, would that mean his streak is over? The Tavistock Cup - this year co-sponsored by the U.S. Federal Reserve - is a unique, PGA Tour - sanctioned event, where golf’s elite players get together to hobnob with the obscenely rich before and after ...

Tiger Woods needed to birdie three of Bay Hill’s toughest holes to finish a third-round 66 and put him in a five-way tie for the lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And he put himself one round away from making me look like the prophet I’ve always secretly believed I am. It was Dec. 31, 2007 when I boldly claimed that Tiger would go unbeaten in 2008. He hasn’t let me down yet, and I consider a Woods’ victory tomorrow a foregone conclusion. Because it has been foretold. by me. With each Tiger victory, my gloating will grow, I warn you. It ...

Army 1st Lt. Nathan Raudenbush, 26, of Royersford, Pennsylvania, was killed this week in southern Baghdad, according to the Associated Press. Family members say the son of a Berks County couple has been killed in Iraq. Relatives say Army 1st Lt. Nathan Raudenbush, 26, was killed Wednesday afternoon in southern Baghdad. He was patrolling in a Humvee destroyed by a roadside bomb. Two other soldiers were injured. Raudenbush was the son of Brian and Mary Raudenbush of Earl Twp. He was a 2001 graduate of Spring-Ford High School in Royersford, Montgomery County. Brian Raudenbush says his son was a longtime member of the ...

For a while there, some of us around these parts had some giggles poking fun at Robert Thompson, a golf writer in Canada. It was just a little harmless fun, and we’d get a kick out of it because Thompson would get all upset and call us hacks and feel like we were raging some type of anti-Canada crusade. Honestly, it was all in fun, but seeing Thompson’s latest post, headlined “John Daly, RIP,” I couldn’t help think “Wow, Robert Thompson’s a sick twisted jerk.” After the “grabby” title, here’s what Thompson had to say: Made you stop and consider the title, didn’t ...

It has now been 47 days since Tim Finchem’s last blog post for the PGA Tour. In his first blog it was noted that: “PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem begins a monthly blog for PGATOUR.com with this edition. The commissioner wants you to send him your questions and comments about the TOUR and in future installments, he will open a dialogue with fans about the things near and dear to TOUR fans. Nearly two months later, we all eagerly await that dialogue to begin, Tim. Please get one of your interns to crank out 500 completely non-controversial and corporation-friendly words that you ...

Stress gets to us all. Personally, I have a problem with grinding my teeth in my sleep. I also have on occasion hurled a game controller when Ben Roethlisberger throws an interception during an intense game of John Madden NFL 07. It’s embarrassing, sure, but it’s part of the human condition. Purposely killing a bird because it’s interrupting a video shoot, as Tripp Isenhour did, is not part of the human condition. It’s much closer to the act of a psychopath really. From The Smoking Gun: -Nettled by a noisy red-shouldered hawk that was disrupting a video shoot, a professional golfer allegedly silenced ...

I sometimes like to peruse reader comments left on various stories and blogs here at WorldGolf.com. It gives me a great opportunity to mock and humiliate the reader for hours on end, thus insuring the reader will never visit our sites again and develop a seething hatred of me. Hey, we all have hobbies. So when I saw that reader Michelle had made a comment to Chris Baldwin’s June 2007 commentary “Lorena Ochoa stays positive while getting surprisingly little attention” I figured the time was ripe for a little reader mockathon. Here’s what Michelle had to say: “Lorena is a great golf ...