When Did Golf Get So Interesting?

you know full well they can’t play on the tour anymore full time…they would both likely lose their cards. Dominating the media might have more truth in it.

Good grief, Court, are you seeing lechery in everything you read? I’ve searched for ages. but can’t find the dirty bits anywhere in this blog:o)

Salacious doesn’t mean factually incorrect.

HOWEVER – (1) “Tiger got mad and blacked out about it…” Definitely a tabloid style comment. You accuse me of being broad with my definition of salacious, but your definition of “different” seems to demand that the guy be canonized by the Pope before he’s allowed back in public.

(2) Phil didn’t talk about his chance to “surge toward the #1 spot in the world” – he DID say that it was difficult to get fired up about playing, knowing that Tiger wasn’t going to be around. Your comments about his wedges are incorrect because the theory was that the Ping Eye 2 grooves would give a competitive edge – which it really didn’t. Nobody that used them finished anywhere near the top. In the end, Phil had nothing to do with the groove rule OR Ping giving up the court ruling from 1993 for “a player to be named later”.

(3) “Biblical allusion to Simon” ?? What does that even mean ? And Biblical does not go with “karma”.

(4) Great section on Ken Green – phenomenal story.

(5) Just how was Jason Bohn “CLEARLY hung over” ? If you didn’t know the story, you would never have known that he had been at a Halloween party the night before. If you didn’t know who it was in that video, you would never know who that was because it wasn’t clear video. How is jumping up and down celebrating a hole in one and winning a million dollars a sign of being hung over ? And personally, I still don’t understand your classification of winners in New Orleans as “oddball”. This wasn’t Bohn’s first win – so his talent isn’t in question.

(6) Yes, you did say that Couples and Watson are dominating the sport – you didn’t say “dominating the Champion’s Tour”. (but the 90 year old back line was definitely funny !) :-)

(7) Ochoa didn’t even mention hubby in her retirement announcements last week. She is very wealthy with her Tour winnings alone – much less her sponsorships. “She’s won enough already” ? What does that mean ? She just wants to give everybody else a chance ? Does she think Tiger and Phil…and I guess Davis Love III…are selfish SOB’s who win too much ? She didn’t mention “down time” – she DID mention doing work with her foundations, which can be a real pull on time.

(8) How is Poulter flipping off fans in a video on a plane trip “standard fare” ? (this happened well before last Thanksgiving – but we’ll let that slide) Poulter can be a bit of a jerk sometimes – but he is more of a gentleman more often than not.

(9) I’m assuming you’re talking about The Road Hole at St Andrews. You rail on so many things traditional because that’s for “old guys” – yet you call a tactical lengthening of 17 for the pros “bastardization”. You should be thrilled at this. The R&A wanted to bring the driver, and the inherent problems at club can bring, back into play. Most guys were hitting no more than 3-wood on that hole – some bombers were hitting irons. Now THAT’S bastardization.

Ernie Els career was “over” ? According to who ? He won for “no apparent reason” ?? Seriously ? Playing better than everybody else is “no apparent reason” ? You had him as a favorite at The Masters until he went south at Houston. The guy is still a great talent – and if he can keep his head straight, he is going to be winning tournaments for quite a while to come.

Furyk’s career was “over” ? Come on. Making these kinds of absolute statements is ridiculous – ESPN kind of crap – unfortunately, the younger generation seems to think it’s cool to put people down.

Aside from the Tiger Woods scandal, nothing about this season really qualifies as “bizarre”. Exciting ? Thrilling ? Heart warming ? Definitely – but bizarre ? No way.