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Woods' Apology Elicits Predictable Responses

(Feb. 19) -- In the hours following Tiger Woods' choreographed apology for serial philandering, a slew of commentators, corporate executives and average Americans offered a range of opinions on the effectiveness of Woods' performance. The vast majority of them seemed as scripted as the nearly 15-minute apology itself....

Notebook: Wedge Controversy Another Black Eye for Sport

A week of notes, quotes and gossip from the world of golf ...PGA Tour brass did not do themselves proud with their handling of the Ping Eye2 controversy, created by Phil Mickelson and a handful of others using a legal loophole to play the non-conforming pre-1990 wedges.Although acknowledging he was long ago aware of the...

Presidents Cup Teams Announced

The Presidents Cup is a month away, and Tuesday the teams were announced. It's a welcome break from the FedEx Cup excitement. (To be fair, this year's event has been infinitely more interesting than it was in 2007 or 2008 but still, it's hard to get too worked up about manufactured drama. Well, unless it's wrestling.) In...

John Daly's Putter Is Only Thing Holding Him Back

The PGA Tour doesn't talk about such things, but I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that the decision to suspend John Daly for six months was born out of the events that took place a year ago last month. Daly, participating in the Buick Open pro-am, thought it would be great fun to hit a golf ball off a beer can....

John Daly Is Coming to America, Will Play St. Jude Championship

John Daly is a lot like Johnny Depp: born in the South, in his 40s, loves kicking it in Europe, and now, thanks to lap-band surgery, looks unreasonably thin (well, relative to the old JD, anyway). And while he has yet to bust out the pirate ensemble (although I suspect it'll soon be in the rotation), he enjoys dressing up...

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05/23/12 The problem of sllllooooowwww play Source: USA Today During the final round of a golf tournament, a camera zoomed in on two baby ducks frolicking on the bank behind the 18th green, and, in a nod to the pace of play, the CBS announcer said the cute chicks were eggs when the last group of the day began play.
05/21/12 Morgan Pressel's slow-play penalty from the LPGA... Source: Sporting News She must have thought she was on the PGA Tour.
05/18/12 Glen Day the last player with a penalty stroke Source: Lincoln Daily News - Lincoln IL May 18, 2012 ] P ONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. It turns out that Glen Day -- not Dillard Pruitt -- was the last player penalized a stroke for slow play on the PGA Tour. Pace of play became an issue last week at The Players Championship when Kevin Na's group was put on the clock in the third and fourth rounds.
05/18/12 Just for men Source: WORLD Magazine Some things are too important to bow to political correctness.
05/17/12 Slow play shows up at the worst time for PGA Tour Source: Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington OH (AP) In more peaceful times, when Tiger Woods had gone six months without losing and golf seemed to revolve around him, he ended a monthly newsletter with a rare trip to the soap box to complain about the pace of play on the PGA Tour.