Let's Hear from the Studs of the PGA Tour
by Ryan Ballengee on Oct 25, 2009 10:15 PM EDT
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PrintOn tonight's broadcast of the Frys.com Open on the Golf Channel, color analyst Brandel Chamblee could just not stop with the homoerotic and/or pornographic references to young'uns Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler. Both eventually lost in a playoff to Fall Series King Troy Matteson, but Chamblee and the entire Golf Channel team was just enamored with these young guys.
The problem was that they could never settle on a nickname for this duo and the likes of Rory McIlroy and Ryo Ishikawa. Chamblee stumbled on calling the guys "young bucks," "young guns," and - most unfortunately - "young studs."
Studs? Really? It's not like these guys are posing for Playgirl anytime soon. (Especially since the magazine is too busy with Sarah Palin's daughter's ex-beau Levi Johnston.)
Then, I thought maybe Chamblee was making a reference to the early 1990s calamity of a dating game show called Studs. Produced by FOX and was hosted by a forgettable man named Mark DeCarlo, the premise of the show was simple:
Two men go on dates with three women; afterward, the men would have to match answers with the women regarding the date. Each correct answer would win the man a stuffed heart. At the end of each episode, each woman would decide which man they chose as a "stud" and wanted to go out with again. If the men could correctly guess which woman chose them, both received an all-expense paid date to a location of their choice. In the event that two couples chose correctly, the man with the most stuffed hearts won the date.
I mean, it might make a decent side attraction. It would probably work out really well as part of the PGA Tour's new 90 minute sponsor visit time policy. Three executive women get to play Studs with Fowler, Lovemark, or another buxom pro of their choosing. And then somehow they get a new sponsor out of it. It's a win-win for everyone!
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without all the slick hyperbole you chose – I was thinking the same general things you were thinking – that coverage was about half a step from dispicable. They should be ashamed to call themselves professionals after all that fawning – especially after the guy who shot 61-61 on Friday and Saturday eventually won the playoff.
Then again, I don’t expect anything else from Rich “drama” Lerner, and Chamblee doesn’t know any better. He has fallen into the same “say the wildest most ridiculous thing just in case it happens so you can sound like you know the secrets of the golf universe” style that too many other “professionals” use.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Give me the magic wand and a stack of pink slips – half of xxx Golf Channel on air staff is gone in 30 seconds…starting with Tilghman (if she doesn’t want to go back to doing Golf Central ONLY), and Rich Lerner.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
As long as you bring back Peter Kessler, you have my blessing.
His dismissal after the tough questions he asked Arnold Palmer dropped my respect of Palmer tremendously. After being in the spotlight of golf for sixty years, you would think that Palmer would have tougher skin, but apparently he doesn’t.
Now, I am reading “Arnie & Jack” by Ian O’Connor and am getting the definite impression that Palmer could and should have done more to control the way his galleries treated Jack Nicklaus. Their behavior in a number of tournaments was so far over the line that Palmer – if he is truly the great sportsman his image claims – should have done more. But, alas, he didn’t.
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