…I’m really tired of these media guys who need their “fix” of buzz every week. These articles are crap and do nothing to promote the tournament.

These are the same mental midget articles that we had leading up to the Superbowl last weekend – OOPS ! That turned out to be a great game despite all the doom and gloom in the media.

Instead of mailing in these lame articles about the Buick (et al) – how about doing a little research into the guys who ARE playing and maybe you’ll learn that these guys ARE that good and this could be a very exciting tournament. (oh wait – that would require EFFORT) Look what happened last weekend in Phoenix without Mickelnuts, Holmes, and most of the other “buzz” names.

That Larry needed a whole piece to basically say that Tiger isn’t going to be there.

And I agree that we’ll still have a good tournament. But, people were leaving in droves after the FBR went to a playoff because they were going home to watch the Superbowl. Without the NFL around now, golf can get undivided attention from fans.

Still, you have to consider the media perspective in this. They’re thinking from media world, in which big names matter almost as much as the quality of golf. There’s a reason that few people watch the Champ or N’Wide Tours despite some high quality golf being played.

Which Larry B appears to be a card carrying member. There can only be two stories- Tiger is playing this week or Tiger isn’t playing this week.

Golf World covers those two themes in half of what they publish, either that or its about Phil Mickelson. Karrie Webb won the Kraft Nabisco two years ago, holing out on 18 but what’s the newsmaker of the week on GW’s front cover? If you guessed Lefty winning in Atlanta by 12 shots against a C- field, you’re absolutely correct. Pak wins her fifth Farr, but GW puts lefty on the cover for losing a playoff in Europe some where. It was only appropriate the magazine showed a shot of PM bending over since that’s what the people in CT must have fantasies of. Other than stupidity, a man crush is the only explanation for some of the stuff that magazine pulls(Don’t forget it was Lefty featured on the cover, not Ogilvy after the 2006 US Open).