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IMG's Jamari Traylor Picks Kansas and Raises Questions in the Process
With the deadline of signing day approaching, the parts of the Big 12 still await decisions from late-choosing 2011 high school prospects. While Trevor Lacey's commitment to stay home and attend Alabama was the biggest story of the day and DeAndre Daniels will steal the spotlight tomorrow with...
Tiger, IMG & the PGA Tour: The Battle for Pro Golf in the United States
In this week's New York Times Magazine, Jonathan Mahler investigates what he calls the "Tiger Bubble" - the perceived phenomenon that the PGA Tour has put all of its eggs in the Tiger's basket, leaving them unprepared and incapable of sustaining the Tour in the event of his prolonged absence or...
Tiger & His People Cannot Absolve Him for Us
Last night, I was scouring Twitter for some final reaction to Tiger Woods' return announcement before heading to sleep. A follower of mine retweeted a message from IMG Golf's official account. Followed by just over 300 people, it has a tenth of the following that Waggle Room does. Not many...
Why Pro Golf Is In Trouble (& It's Not Because of Tiger)
The current meme being floated around in golf circles is that the sport is in serious trouble. The 11th hour miracle of acquiring a title sponsor for the Torrey Pines event aside, much doom and gloom has been cast on the sport in light of Tiger Woods' self-imposed absence from the sport. In fact,...
IMG & Octagon Can't Buy LPGA Tour, But Will Happily Run It
In the midst of Bivenswatch '09, I wondered in this space if IMG or Octagon - owners, operators, or managers of a vast percentage of the LPGA Tour schedule - would be interested in taking over the LPGA Tour, or spinning its events off into its own Tour. Well, as Jon Show in SBJ tells us, neither...
Would IMG or Octagon Be Able to Help the LPGA Tour?
I had a fleeting thought the other nice when thinking about the developing story around the tenuous grasp that LPGA Tour Commissioner Carolyn Bivens has on her post. I wondered if one of the two companies that own, operate, or manage the most LPGA Tour events - IMG or Octagon - would be willing to...
Pack Up the Van! Champions Tour is Heading to South Korea Next Season
I got this release while I was out last night with the announcement that the Champions Tour will be playing an event in South Korea in the fall of 2010. The PGA TOUR announced today that a multi-year agreement has been reached to bring the Champions Tour to Asia for the first time with the debut...
LPGA on GNN - 3/10/09
On this week's episode: We start by talking about what Ji Yai Shin accomplished in her fourth LPGA Tour win. We also wondered how come players are having such a hard time holding leads early on this season. Finally, we close with San Diego Union-Tribune golf reporter Tod Leonard to talk about...
Lewine Mair Thinks We Don't Want Game Stories
Earlier today, I wrote a post about a Lewine Mair "special" at ESPN.com. Lewine was a golf reporter at the Telegraph before being fired/bought out recently. Mair wrote a fluff piece about Colin Montgomerie that probably could have been was written by IMG, the group that manages Montgomerie's...
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