While the PGA rivals FEMA in its red tape-hampered assistance to Hurricane Katrina victims, players and courses are doing it directly.

Greg Norman lent both his helicopter and pilot to the rescue efforts, helping ferry medical supplies to hospitals.

Other courses all over the country are holding every kind of fundraiser. Desert Dunes Golf Club in Hot Springs, CA, will be donating 25 percent of all green fees to the effort, to name just one example.

Why can't the PGA just write a check, as so many other athletes and entertainers are doing?

-- Tim McDonald