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John Daily is Looking Rought

I used to give John Daly the benefit of the doubt but after a recent incident at Hooters, I have to say that I can no longer give him the benefit of the doubt. I think he's a drunk. According to a story from The Golf Channel, he was arrested. Check out his mugshut:

Bring Out The Noose

As everyone knows, The Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman was suspended a couple of weeks ago because of a comment she made about “lynching Tiger”. Of course, she meant no harm by the comment and probably just wasn’t thinking about her choice of words. There were actually people (Rev. Al Sharpton) that called for her firing. How ridiculous!

And, when the story almost became a non-issue, leave it to Golfweek to sensationalize it even more by putting a picture of a noose on its cover. Well, that did get someone fired. Because of the image, longtime Golfweek magazine editor and vice president Dave Seanor, was replaced.

If you ask me, that is well deserved. It is COMPLETELY obvious that Tilghman’s words were just a mistake, one she apologized for. Ever Tiger’s group said it was a “non-issue”.

A statement from Golfweek says, "We apologize for creating this graphic cover that received extreme negative reaction from consumers, subscribers and advertisers across the country," said William P. Kupper Jr., president of Turnstile Publishing Co., the parent company of Golfweek. "We were trying to convey the controversial issue with a strong and provocative graphic image. It is now obvious that the overall reaction to our cover deeply offended many people. For that, we are deeply apologetic."

Even the PGA Tour’s top dog, Commissioner Tim Finchem, sternly criticized the publication. "Clearly, what Kelly said was inappropriate and unfortunate, and she obviously regrets her choice of words," Finchem said in a statement. "But we consider Golfweek's imagery of a swinging noose on its cover to be outrageous and irresponsible. It smacks of tabloid journalism. It was a naked attempt to inflame and keep alive an incident that was heading to an appropriate conclusion."

The whole incident started during Golf Channel's broadcast on Jan. 4 of this year when analyst Nick Faldo joked that the young players of the PGA Tour may have to gang up on Tiger Woods in order to compete with him. His co-host, Kelly Tilghman, ageed and suggested with a laugh that Tiger's young rivals "lynch him in a back alley."

Tilghman later apologized on the air and also directly to Tiger. Tiger Woods's agent (Mark Steinberg), dismissed the incident, saying that Woods and Tilghman were friends and the comment was not malicious. Still, the network suspended Tilghman for two weeks after the controversy became a story outside the golf world.

Virtual Golf

Here is a great virtual online golf game. It's completely online with no download necessary. This one will cause some serious time wasting at work. It's pretty addictive. Visit the "World Golf Tour PGA.com Charity Challenge". You won't be disappointed.

Golf Club Repair

I created a couple of new sites (1 blog, 1 website) about golf club repair. If you wanted to replace worn grips yourself, be sure to check either of the sites out for instructions. For the website, I just created a sub-directory off of the marylandgolf.info site. The address is www.marylandgolf.info/ezclubrepair. I also created a blog called golfclubrepair.blogspot.com. My plan is to keep an eye on traffic statistics for the blog and if it does well, I’ll buy a domain and push the website to the new domain.

Golf Quotes of the Year for 2007

Here are some of the best golf quotes of the year:

"I wanted to be his child. If I was a child I wouldn't play golf anymore, I'd be sitting in a boat somewhere spending all dad's money. I've been trying to get him to adopt me for the last five years, but he wouldn't do it." -- John Daly, when asked his thoughts on Tiger becoming a father.

"I think when I made the turn on the front nine I thought it had to be pretty close to setting a record somewhere. The only time I've been 9 under through nine has been playing Tiger Woods on Play Station.” -- Brandt Snedeker, after his blistering opening nine holes at the Buick Invitational.

"I left J.J. a message - I said, 'The good news is you’re in and the bad news is you got Tiger!'” -- Brett Quigley, who was originally scheduled to play Tiger Woods in the first round before Charl Schwartzel withdrew, giving J.J. Henry the 64th seed and a match up with the No. 1-seeded Woods.

"When your caddie is rattling in the pocket to see if he's got a provisional (ball) when you're standing over the drive, you know you've got some sort of a problem." -- Henrik Stenson, describing the sorry state of his game six years ago when he almost gave up golf.

“Even I've never heard of me!" -- Zach Johnson, parodying himself during the Top-10 segment on the Late Show with David Letterman.

“I said, 'You better talk to your wife.'" -- Billy Heim, caddy for Rich Beem, after the Beemer offered him the car he had won at the Nissan Open after making a hole-in-one.

"I laid my head on the pillow last night and had four alarm clocks set, and I had somebody call from my office. I was scared to death. I had this vision of running down No. 3 going 'I'm here, I'm here' and missing that 7:30 tee time." -- Skipper Beck, car dealer, recalling his emotions on the eve of playing in a pro-am alongside Tiger and Jordan.

"The life that I live at home doesn't stop just because there's a tournament in town. It just adds. Luckily my wife understands that and tries to take on as much as she possibly can, but she's only one person. I need to have like three or four wives maybe this week." -- Stewart Cink, a Duluth, Ga., resident on what it’s like playing a PGA TOUR event in his hometown.

"She must know I'm a pretty good tennis player,” -- Adam Scott, joking with reporters on tennis beauty Maria Sharapova listing the 26-year-old Aussie -- who noted that he has a girlfriend -- among her top 10 desired mixed doubles partners. On her Web site, Sharapova had Scott listed at No. 6, with a comment in parenthesis "night match, please?"

"We all know with her playing in the men's events that she is not going to get anywhere, so I'm not really sure what she is trying to achieve," -- Retief Goosen, telling reporters at the Wales Open that he doesn't feel Wie should be given any more exemptions into PGA TOUR events, like the one she just received to compete in July's John Deere Classic for the third straight year.

"You’ve got to figure out what works best for you. That’s the hard part. I know I can’t play as stoic as Hogan, and I can’t talk as much as Trevino; you have to be your own person.” -- Tiger Woods, on how to handle one’s self in major championships.

"It’s the only hole I know where they can have a long drive contest and a closest to the pin.” -- Kirk Triplett, describing the monsterous 288-yard par-3 8th.

"I've learned a few bad words in a lot of different languages so I can yell at my ball no matter what country I'm in.” -- Notah Begay, on what he has learned while playing mostly this season on the European Tour.

"If anybody laughs when I hit it, they're dead -- we've got Secret Service here.” -- Former President Bush, joking with the gallery at the opening ceremony of the AT&T National.

"Every year, more and more cute young amateur girls with ribbons in their hair are coming up. It's terrific.” -- Cristie Kerr, newly minted U.S. Women's Open champion, on the outlook of American golf on the LPGA Tour.

"Yeah. I kind of put my foot in my mouth there, didn't I? But I didn't know. If you don't know, you don't know. I hated what I said, especially with him just saying what he said a couple days before, that he don't get no respect. And then I say something like that. It's like wham! Here's a slap to your head.” -- Boo Weekley, on the story of how he asked 1999 Open Champion Paul Lawrie the question, 'How'd you get in? You qualify?'

"Who gives a (expletive). Jeez!” -- Ernie Els, the normally laid back South African, after being asked one to many questions in a press conference.

"I woke my wife and said: 'I'm the Open champion. I can't believe I've done it.' She said: 'I can believe it, there's the trophy, now can you go back to sleep?'” -- Padraig Harrington, on what was said in his hotel room on the Monday morning following his victory at Carnoustie.

"There was odds with all the caddies and players this week who would fall first, me or my caddie?” -- John Daly, jokingly referring to whether or not his body could handle the tough conditions in Tulsa.

"I don't normally four-putt from that close.” -- Vijay Singh, sarcastically describing his opening hole at the Deutsche Bank, a four-putt from just 15 feet.

“Marco. Polo.” -- The Canadian gallery, alternating the chants of those two words to Woody as he strode down the fairways.

"The only thing that I would do differently, I wouldn't have played this year. It's as simple as that.” -- MIchelle Wie, on her only regret in 2007.

"You look at that and say, 'Wow!” -- Hayes again, who was paired with a Zak Russell, a 19-year-old from Toronto who was born two months premature with a bad connection between the trachea and esophagus. Russell has gone through 14 surgeries.

"The complexity in those three holes ... has set a different benchmark in the golfing industry." -- Abdulla Al Gurg, the project director for The Tiger Woods Dubai course.

“Hell of a host.” -- Jim Furyk, tongue-in-cheek, referring to Tiger Woods' success at his own tournament, the Target World Challenge.

I found these on The Golf Channel's website. Find all of the quotes for each week here.

Golf in Afghanistan

Here is a picture of "Kabul Golf Club". I think I'd try to keep it in the fairway.

John Daly's "Golf My Own Damn Way"

For anyone that has followed golf for any period of times, has heard of Jack Nickaus' "Golf My Way" book.


Golf My Way: The Instructional Classic, Revised and Updated


The book inspired many up and coming players to write their own books. First, Greg Norman came out with his book with a similar concept.

Shark Attack! - Greg Norman's Guide To Aggressive Golf


Next, Tiger Woods came out with a book also.

How I Play Golf


Now, crowd favorite John Daly has release his "my way" book. It seems fitting that it's called "Golf My Own Damn Way".




Check out these other books:

Wow... What a House!

If you follow golf at all (and maybe even if you don't), you've probably seen these pics before. Even if you haven't seem them, these pics really show you a beautiful house. Take a guess at who's house it is... (The answer is at the bottom). Click on each picture for a larger view.

You have been looking at pictures of Tiger Woods' house. I assume this is just one of probably many houses that he must own.

Warning: He's Unstoppable

I'm talking, of course, about Tiger Woods. With his win on Sunday at the BMW Championship at Cog Hill, Tiger Woods won his 60th PGA Tour event. More importantely, he now leads the Fedex Cup points race with only 1 event remaining. Tiger has a 4120 points lead over Phil Michelson and a 3133 points lead over Steve Stricker. Keep in mind that the final event has more points to give out than the other playoff tournaments. Instead of the usual 9,000 points to the winner, the winner of the The Tour Championship gets 10,300 points. Given that fact and the fact that Tiger will get a minimum of 395 points if he finishes last in the final event (yeah, Right!), there are only a few players who statistically have a chance to winner the Fedex Cup: Tiger, Steve Stricker, Phil, Rory Sabbatini, & K.J. Choi. for Rory and K.J., some pretty crazy stuff would have to happen for them to win so really, it comes down to a 3 dog race. It's going to be interesting...

Let's turn our attention back to Tiger's domination of the sport of Golf. You can say all you want about the Phil/Tiger rivalry but Tiger is truly amazing. Even though Phil beat Tiger 2 weeks ago, it was the exception and not the norm. Even when Tiger does get beat, he never gets beat badly and he never falls out of the race. Now think back to the last time Tiger choken badly in a tournament. What?? You can think of of a time? Yeah.. Me either. Here's why. Tiger wins at the rate of 28%. Said another way, he has won 60 of the 215 career starts. Even more impressive, he has been in the top 3 of 100 of of his 215 starts (that is a rate of 47%). He reached 60 career wins faster than anyone. The closest to him (of course) was Jack Nicklaus who won 60 when he was 36 years old.






Now, if you are really don't follow golf that much and you feel like you've missed something truly great, don't worry, he'll only get better. Keep in mind that he had just reached 50 wins only 13 short months ago!

Golf Without Tiger

As most people know, Tiger Woods captured the 2007 PGA Championship on Sunday (8/12/07). With the win, that gave him 13 major titles and 58 overall! Wow, what an amazing stat. But, what if Tiger never entered the picture, how would golf be different? Well, in terms of wins (looking at the majors), we have a lot more people as major champions.

Here are Tiger's major wins by year (with the 2nd place finisher listed in parentheses):

1997 - Masters (Tom Kite)
1999 - PGA (Sergio Garcia)
2000 - US Open (Miguel Angel Jimenez), British Open (Thomas Bjorn), PGA (Bob May)
2001 - Masters (David Duval)
2002 - Masters (Retief Goosen), US Open (Phil Mickelson)
2005 - Masters (Chris DiMarco), British Open (Colin Montgomerie)
2006 - British Open (Chris DiMarco) , PGA (Shaun Micheel)
2007 - PGA (Woody Austin)

So, a quick glance shows:

- Phil would have a 4th major
- DiMarco would have TWO majors
- Sergio would be a major winner
- Colin Montgomerie would be a major winner
- And quite a few others would be first time major winners.

Boo Weekly?

Boo Weekly showed promise at the Honda Classic. I wasn't surprised to see him win. He obviously has got game!