Sal Johnson has the second round recap of the HSBC Champions WGC event in China. He even said WGC stands for Woods Golf cash-cow because Woods wins a disproportionate share of these events worldwide, collecting 16 out of 30 winners’ paychecks.
Sal Johnson has the second round recap of the HSBC Champions WGC event in China. He even said WGC stands for Woods Golf cash-cow because Woods wins a disproportionate share of these events worldwide, collecting 16 out of 30 winners’ paychecks.
We’ll have Dr. Gary Wadler of WADA chime on soon about this issue. Until then, Matt Rudy of GW has this excellent article pointing out the huge holes in the PGA Tour’s testing policy and the remarkable lack of transparency. From the article: “Steroid expert Dr. Charles Yesalis outlined for me a simple, inexpensive way for a PGA Tour player to gain...
Hat tip to Fox Sports for the heads-up that the end of the Viking Classic was canceled due to rain. This has to be the wettest year on record in this country in a long time.
Click here for the story From Golf Observer: From the article: “Today could be one of the most important days in the history of the LPGA. It’s been a long four years of hardship for this once proud organization as Carolyn Bivens has driven it to despair. So with the announcement today that Michael Whan has been named the 8th commissioner of the LPGA Tour...
“It’s only my opinion and carries no weight, but I will say ‘Forgive them Old Tom for they know not what they do,” raged Melvyn Hunter Morrow, when he heard the R&A will lengthen the iconic Road Hole – the 17th at The Old Course at St. Andrews – by building a new tee on part of the adjacent Eden Course. “Certainly, Peter...
Reset: We’ll be providing a lot of course reviews in the next few weeks. We’ll also have a guest article by Maggie MacAlpine, my extraordinary intern, some more architcet interviews, and coverage of the President’s Cup. In the mean time, here’s Tim Rosaforte with some great analysis that…gasp!…Tiger and Steve Stricker have traded...
Two good articles: First, Hank Gola ia a great friend to golf and our staff. Here’s his new blog. Second, Golf Digest has this story about how Bivens is out, and the only open question is resignation or firing. I’m warning you right now, they might repeat the same mistakes if they don’t reject all of Bivens’s inner circle for a successor. They...
Former PGA player Ken Green was injured in an RV crash which killed his brother and girlfriend. Fox news has this report. From the article: Green was driving on Interstate 20 near Hickory, Miss., on Monday when the right front tire of his RV blew out. Green was unable to control the vehicle and ran off the road and down an embankment before hitting a large oak...
The golf world was stunned today by the news that effervescent young Amy Mickelson, wife of popular TOUR player Phil Mickelson, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. According to the Associated Press, “The three-time major champion said Wednesday he will suspend his PGA Tour schedule indefinitely. According to a release from Mickelson’s management...
The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA has been open since 1766. This is obviously just a sad, but thankfully isolated incident, a statistical outlier, as they say in the sports world. From the article: Hotel Spokeswoman Carol Stratford declined to say whether Hackney had any discipline problems or release further personal information on him or the victims. She...
Just because rich people spend too much for golf, the politicians think they can paint every golfer as being as wealthy as a limousine liberal. Dan Jenkins’s satire about how golf may be singled out do to its perceived opulence and decadence would be hysterical, but for it’s also true. We are beset on many sides by knee-jerk haters who wouldn’t...
The Irish Open inked a three million euro deal with 3, a promient mobile phone network. Appropriately, the deal was for three years. This year’s tournament will be played at County Louth Golf Club in Drogheda from May 14-17 will offer prize money of €3 million. Outside of the four majors and the World Golf Championships, only five tournaments now offer...
According to The Sports Business Journal and other sources, Wachovia’s company name will not appear in the title of the 2009 PGA Tour tournament it sponsors in Charlotte. Wells Fargo bought the Charlotte-based bank last fall and intended to call the 2009 event the Wachovia Championship, but recent public backlash against marketing expenditures of financial...
…Match play derangement sydrome alert! Excuses about how the Match Play is too capricious [read: not TV-friendly] in 3…2…1… Diminutive, gritty Tim Clark has Woods dormie with three to play. Watch here. ***Update*** Dagger! Clark just birdied 16, and wins 4 & 2. According to TGC “The World’s Number One Comeback is Over...
They did raise your personal taxes though. From the article: “Replacing sales tax on services such as golf in the final budget is a different mix of revenues, such as a surtax on personal income and an increase in vehicle licensing fees. It’s uncertain if the commission will recommend an expansion of the sales tax to golf, said H.D. Palmer, a Department...