I'm Pretty Sure the Morris Family Didn't Play on the PGA Tour

that is TOO funny – it’s a shame Faldo wasn’t on hand to correct Lerner. I can imagine the look on his face as Lerner brought up the list.

The only thing I can figure is that since the Open Championship is now considered a PGA event, they included the Morrises and the Parks. Which remains ludicrous.

An aside: Young Tom’s story may well be the most tragic in the history of this game.

I’m guessing Lerner didn’t pull that from has vast knowledge of golf trivia, someone fed the information to him.

He had another faux pas a couple of weeks ago, talking to Stewart Cink about having the original Claret Jug for a year.

He then talked about drinking from the same jug as Tom Morris Sr.

Two problems here: first, Morris Sr. never won the Claret Jug. He last won the Open Championship in 1867, and that was before Tom Morris Jr. retired the Champion’s Belt in 1872.

Secondly, the original Jug has not been given to the winner since 1927. A full-size replica is given and after a year, a smaller version given permanently.

This is symptomatic of the Golf Channel — they are style over substance and they are insulting to the game itself in their ignorance.

His being counted on the list is a sign of the PGA Tour playing ping pong with their records. Heafner’s only triumph on the tour was at the team event. It was counted as a tour win when it took place, but for a while in the early part of the last decade, wins like his weren’t being counted. Now the PGA Tour is back counting them. Aren’t these records supposed to be etched in stone not etch a sketched from decade to decade?

And some people tell me that I’m to hard on TGC’s poor journalism and fact checking. Lerner is the worst. He spends to much time adjusting his Sansabelts and hair piece and little time checking facts that are handed to him to read. He has no prior golf of sports journalism backround prior to joining TGC. I wonder what brain trust decided to let go of Cellini and keep Lerner. Shaking Head <><><>

They always introduce the team as “THE PANEL OF EXPERTS” Sadly there are a large percentage of viewers out there like Ping for instance , j/k that rely on them for golf gospel. Its mostly the “fringe fans” that don’t know any better

However, I do like to hear the player interviews. The sad part of all this is that TGC touts themselves as “Golfs Home” I betcha Arnie caught that error and cringed.

However, he sold it long ago when it was “Worth Something”