Off the Wires

A few golf items stumbled across during morning surfing ...

• A good cry can do wonders. Um, that's what I hear, anyway. I, uh, wouldn't know. Yeah. But Brandt Snedeker does. Since his tears flowed at Augusta, fans have been flowing his way in much greater numbers than before.

• The tournament director of the PGA Tour Mayakoba Classic admits he desperately wants Lorena Ochoa in his field. But Lorena says no thanks - she has no plans to ever play in a PGA Tour event.

• Associated Press columnist Tim Dahlberg argues that the Olympics should say no to golf. And that golf shouldn't be asking to be part of the Olympics in the first place.

• Some young whippersnapper with the Daily Illini, the student newspaper of the University of Illinoi Urbana-Champaign, takes as his thesis the following: golf is a dying game. But never fear, he has some suggestions for resuscitating the game. Some of them may have merit; his main one - switch all tournaments to match play - is ridiculous. But he gets off a few good lines along the way.

• Michael Jordan will be building in The Bear's Club development in Jupiter, Fla., not far fro his buddy Tiger Woods' compound. Jordan paid $4.8 million for two lots.

• Here's a review of the new book by Ian O'Connor, Arnie and Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry.