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This week, Tiger comes back to show off all of his hard work on his new golf swing. Nobody really knows what Tiger has been up to, but it’s safe to assume he has been working his derrière off to get ready for the Frys.com Open October 6th ...

“Lexi Thompson, at age 16, you just became the youngest player to ever win a professional tour event.  What are you going to do now?”

“I’m going back to Q’school.”  Wait… what?! (Insert the sound of the needle being dragged across the record here.)

That’s right -- the geniuses on the LPGA tour are not ...

With trophy girlfriend in tow (and in need of socks), Fred Couples returned to his hometown of Seattle for the 2011 Boeing Classic. He was fresh off his first major victory on the Geezer Tour -- the Senior PGA Championship --winning it after taking off most of the year ...

Belly putters are gaining momentum on the PGA Tour. Keegan Bradley broke the seal at the 2011 PGA Championship. With putter firmly inserted in tummy, he jarred gut-busting birdies to come back from a 5-stroke deficit and win in a 3-hole playoff.

Last week, Webb Simpson followed suit, winning the ...

Dear Tiger,

I would like to apply for the recently open position as your caddie. I don’t have any actual professional experience on the PGA Tour, but I do believe I possess some strong qualities that deem me an excellent fit.

-- "Quiet Please!"

First and foremost, I’m very good at keeping ...

You might be a golf geek if:  you were jumping up and down on your couch at 3 a.m. screaming, “GO KEEGAN!!! GO KEEGAN!!! IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!”

(Pardon my punctuation this morning, but I’m still groggy from staying up all night watching the PGA Championship on my DVR.)

If you missed it, you ...

Adam Scott will bonk a fan on the head with his long putter after he asks “Can I get your caddie’s autograph?”
Rickie Fowler and Rory Mcllroy will miss their tee time after staying up all night playing beer-pong.
Luke Donald will taunt Tiger Woods waving at him across the Applebee’s with ...

“Yani Tseng, you just won The Women’s British Open Championship. What are you going to do now?”

“I’m getting a make-over!”

And as it turns out, the 22-year old Taiwanese golf star who has already won five majors (two years younger than when Tiger won his 5th) is actually pretty.  I know, rigggggght?

You ...

Tiger Woods shanked his first drive and killed an 83-year-old volunteer on his first tee shot in over three months.

“I’m a little rusty,” Tiger muttered while signing a glove and leaving it near the body. He did manage to get it up and down for par, even though the ...

Major winners come in all shapes and sizes. The last two majors were won by two Northern Irishmen: Rory Mcllroy, a pimply faced kid, and Darren Clarke, a beer-bellied old geezer.

Rory Mcllroy won the US Open in June at the spry age of 22. That’s not old even old enough to ...

PGA TOUR

Tiger Doesn’t Change His Stripes

In an apparent effort to show us that he still doesn’t care about public opinion, Tiger Woods dropped his long-time caddy (of 13 years), Steve Williams, this week without notice or provocation.  Naturally, we don’t have Tiger’s side of the story (which we’re used to), but it ...

Tiger’s latest break-up came this week when he fired his long time (13 year) caddie, Steve Williams.  Awwwwwww, poor Stevie.  And after all he’s done for Tiger, at the very least, keeping his trap shut for the last few scandalous years.  The cement-tongued kiwi millionaire race car driver has not uttered a ...

The Northern Ireland Invasion Continues

Before G-Mac won the US Open in 2010, Northern Ireland had gone 63 years without a major.  With Darren Clarke’s win today at the Open Championship in Sandwich, Kent, the small alcoholic country is now 3 out of the last 6.  (Rory Mcllroy won the US ...

After two days, Miguel Angel Jimenez (age 47 and 21-time winner) is only one shot from the lead at the 2011 British Open (trailing Darren Clark and Lucas Glover).  After watching this video you will understand why.   Miguel is a well-trained athlete and as flexible as Nastia Liukin.  Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a teensy bit, but perhaps if Tiger Woods had this pre-round ...

Tiger Makes Big Announcement

Tiger Wood’s announced today that his announcement yesterday that he was making an announcement today is really an announcement that his agent will be making about an upcoming announcement of a business adventure with Kelly Tilghman (a golf channel anchor).

Maybe he’s hiring her to regulate ...

Predictions guaranteed to happen during the 2011 British Open next week at Royal St. George’s:

--Wives worldwide will wake up and irately ask “Really? You are getting up at 4AM to watch golf?!”

--Tiger Woods will sleep ‘til noon and then completely obliterate the field - on his ...

Keanu Reeves Wins AT&T

“Whoa dude, I won again!”  After a back 27 (-9) back nine on Saturday, Nick Watney fired a bogey free 66 on Sunday to beat KJ Choi by two strokes.  This is his 4th win.  He won the World Golf Championship at Doral in March.  The 30-year ...

Tiger Woods, after a two year drought has finally landed a new sponsor – A heat rub.  You remember Tiger, right?..  The golfer who had the tawdry sex scandal that broke when his super model wife decided to extricate him from a drunken car crash using a 9-iron and a ...

NATIONWIDE TOUR

Compton Wins Mexico City Open on Pure Heart

Folks, I’m starting this week with the Nationwide Tour because this very well may be the story of the year.  Many athletes pound there chest after pulling off a heroic comeback or breakthrough win. Eric Compton has ‘em all trumped.  He won this week ...

I’ve witnessed some pretty improbable scenarios in the course of a golf match, but what happened last Thursday in Kansas is almost hard to imagine.

It’s much more impressive than when my buddy, Nick and I battled to the 18th green at Indian Peaks with all the skins from the ...

Rory Mcllroy 65-66-68-69

The 22-year-old Irishman who laid an egg on Sunday at the Masters put on a Major performance this week of epic proportion.

Records set:

4 day total of 268, -16.  Previous record:  272.  Nicklaus 1980, Janzen 1993, Woods 2000, Furyk 2003.  Previous record strokes under par:  -12, Woods 2000.  (Rory got it to -17 ...

BETHESDA, Md. – Additional forces were flown in from around the country and riot police have begun preparing for the end of the US Open at Congressional Country Club located just 15 miles from the White House.

“We don’t want another Vancouver here,” Police Chief Lovey Deaughnut said.  “Golf fans are unpredictable ...

If First You Don’t Succeed…
It took him 355 tournaments, but Harrison Frazar finally broke through on the PGA Tour and cashed a $1,008,000 paycheck after winning the St. Jude Classic in Memphis.  He had to go three extra holes with Robert Karlsson because he bogeyed his last hole (his first bogey ...

Predictions guaranteed to happen during the 2011 US Open next week:

--Wives worldwide will walk in the living room and ask their husbands “Is Tiger winning?”

-- Bubba Watson will drive the #8 354 yard par-4 by playing a 3-wood that hooks over the roof of The White House.

-- Phil ...

Stricker Peaking at Right Time

With the US OPEN around the corner (June 16th-19th), Steve Stricker couldn’t have picked a better time to catch fire.  He shot a 30 going out on Sunday at The Memorial, and managed to keep it together on the back (38) to beat Matt Kucher ...

Root for Luke to stay at #1 because you hit your driver about as far as he does.  Mr. Consistency does it with iron play and short game – not with Popeye forearms or a contortionist-like shoulder turn.

Root for Luke because he couldn’t get into Stanford.  Although he was recruited by ...

This week was a great week to be watching golf (not so much to be zipped up in a tent on the rainy Oregon Coast....

Like Grandmother, like Son

In the year of rookies and playoffs - The Byron Nelson in Irving, Texas followed suit when 25 year-old ...

So Tiger tweeted this week before his press conference “I'll donate one million dollars to (the Tiger Woods Foundation) if no one asks me about the leg.”  Really Tiger?  Is this what it has come too - manipulating the media because answering questions about your health has become so ...

A Disney Ending for Toms

David Toms didn’t spend too much time feeling sorry for himself after he yipped a 3 footer to lose last week on the first playoff hole at The Player’s Championship.  He beat Charlie Wi by one stroke at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial after ...

There’s a jackass in every crowd. The NFL has T.O., Baseball - Manny Ramirez, and the PGA Tour has Rory BRAT-atini.   This idiot is currently facing suspension for a couple incidents this year.

The first incident happened in February during the Northern Trust Open at Riviera.  After Rory hit a ...

Next up in our "check out this blog" series... GolfStinks. Wait, what? Is the author of this blog really saying that golf stinks? Why would anyone go to the trouble to create and maintain a site about something that... well, stinks?

Let's take a closer look and ...

Old Guys Rule

The Players Championship turned into a chess match between grizzly veterans, Paul Goydos (46), KJ Choi (40), and David Toms (44), a departure from what we’ve seen this year where the young guns have been showcasing their fire power.

But the TPC stadium course in ...

Nobody expected that the master magician, Seve Ballesteros, wouldn’t be able to pull off another one of his trademark up-and-downs from deep in the woods, even if it was brain cancer. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be and one of golf’s most colorful characters passed away Saturday at 54.
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In our on-again, off-again series of featuring golf blogs that we read and recommend, today we'll take a look at Armchair Golf Blog...

The first thing that intrigued me about the Armchair Golf Blogger was his coverage of topics that were less-than-mainstream. While other blogs ...

Goodbye to a Legend

We start out this week on a somber note.  The legendary Spanish golfer, Severiano Ballesteros, passed away on Saturday after a hard fought battle with brain cancer.  Seve won 5 majors, 6 Order of Merits, and a Ryder Cup record that is 2nd to none.

All three tours stopped in ...

“I golf, therefore I am.”  This quote is not attributed to any philosopher in particular.  Most of you will come up with it on your own (while slamming Bud Lights and trying to amuse yourself during a six hour round snail-trailing Jack Hack and Shirley Shanks-A-Lot.)

But after your clever philosophizing turns to impatience and then anger (it takes one more beer and ...

Who dat Think they Gonna beat dat Bubba?

For the 2nd week in a row, the big boys needed a few extra holes to decide the Championship – This week it was The Zurich Classic of New Orleans.  And just like last week both players (Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson) made birdie ...

Every once in a while, I discover a golf blog or site that I get excited about. I read it for a while, see if it's got staying power and, if it keeps me coming back for more, I'll add it to my news reader so I ...

LISTEN UP NAYSAYERS, Tiger will beat Jack’s record of 18 majors with ease

If there is one thing we like better than elevating a star to cult like, superhero status – it’s watching him fall from grace (and kicking him all the way down.)  And now with this week’s announcement that Tiger will miss his next scheduled tournament, The Wells Fargo Championship ...

Opie Spoils King Luke’s #1, Served up a Fried Egg on Easter.

Wow!  This week’s tourney snapped me right out of my Master’s hangover.  The 2011 Heritage at Hilton Head featured an exciting finish when the tourney turned into a three hole match play event between the reigning 2011 WGC Matchplay champ, Luke Donald and Mayberry’s own, Opie Taylor, urr I mean Brandt ...

The other day I was playing golf with “That guy.” If you play golf regularly, you know who “That guy” is. He’s God’s Gift to golf (and it’s just a fluke that he hasn’t already made ...

A Sweet 16 for Kevin “Nadda clue what I just took on that hole.”

I dozed off several times this weekend during The Valero Texas Open.  No, it wasn’t a carbon monoxide leak.  It’s just that after that epic battle in beautiful Augusta last week; it was hard to get excited about a ...