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Tiger Selection Spikes Ryder Cup Ticket Sales
Inherently, cynicism was abound when Tiger Woods was selected for the Ryder Cup team. It wasn't rampant - after all, how do you leave the OWGR number one player off of the American side? - but there still appeared some speculation that Woods' pick was made based upon pressure from the PGA of...
When Spectating Becomes a Major Problem
Chambers Bay got the 2010 US Amateur practically sight unseen because of its stunning potential as a true American-style links golf course. Like Whistling Straits, it was molded with heavy machinery, imported dirt/sand, and terraformed into an environment very much different than its original...
The Most Exciting Way to Reveal the Ryder Cup Teams
A number of European contenders, and even now members, of the Ryder Cup team opposing the Americans have complained about the selection process which Colin Montgomerie used to craft this team. Monty used a mix of a points systems created for both globetrotting players and homebodies to create a...
Quail Hollow to Get 2017 PGA Championship
A year ago when it was made readily apparent that Quail Hollow would abandon its PGA Tour stop in 2014 in lieu of trying to attract a major championship, it seemed clear that the Charlotte club's best bet would be for the PGA Championship. Now it appears Quail Hollow will quickly get its wish. Ron...
Bunker/Not A Bunker, Volume 1
Welcome to Bunker/Not A Bunker - the new weekly feature here at Waggle Room which will test your skills at identifying bunkers in the real world. Some will be bunkers. Some won't be bunkers. None will need a local rules sheet to distinguish them. Here's this week's picture. It is a bunker or not...
Shoal Creek Gets Champions Tour Major Tradition
When it was revealed last week that Jeld-Wen would be stepping down as title sponsor of the Champions Tour's The Tradition - one of their five major championships - speculation ran rampant (well, rampant relative to other Champ Tour news) about the future of the event. In Alabama this morning, the...
Tattle Tales: Why I Support Using the Speed Dial for Rules Infractions
After Double Dare and before an inexplicably long run at Food Network, Marc Summers used to host a show on Nickelodeon called What Would You Do? which put people in random situations, seeking to see how they would respond to constraints and rewards. Sure, it had a lot to do with slime and pies, but...
Let's Role Play and Decide Who Our Captain's Picks Would Be
Last night, I was a guest on the F/U Podcast. The two Mikes that host the show brought me on to talk PGA Championship and Ryder Cup. (Take a listen to my segment here, and the full show here.) We had a great conversation. They asked me who I would take with my four captain's picks if I were Corey...
A Post for Any Cynics About the Captain's Picks
I've kind of always been curious about the influence that the tons of Ryder Cup stakeholders have on the respective captains to make their wild card picks. In particular, this year has some serious variables for the American team and Corey Pavin. The obvious issue is Tiger Woods. Should he be on...
The Decider: Which Golf Rules Would You Change?
Golf has very few recognizable memes, but like Icing, it seems that it is open season on the USGA's Rules of Golf. In an ironic sense, it is the existence of local rules - not the standard rules - that cost Dustin Johnson a shot at the PGA Championship. Still, seems like a debate has begun about...
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