For all those who refused to believe the truth about Tiger.

Hundreds of you wrote in and expressed your concern that my blogs about Tiger were premature and even some said they were just plain untrue. It's understandable and I for one wish my blogs would have been based on speculation and hear say and just wrong, because, I like most of you loved to watch Tiger and respected him both as an athlete, man, husband and father.

My blogs, as you can see according to what we now know were not speculation or lies or even premature but instead they were spot on. We now know Tigers wife cause his injuries! We know that she chased him from the house and broke both the windows in the back of his 2009 Cadillac SUV scaring him and causing him to drive into the hydrant and the tree. We know he was having an affair and that he and his wife were fighting about it and this is what caused the the incident in the first place. We know he has refused to talk with police three times and that he has hired Mark NeJame the famous criminal defense attorney to handle the incident and we also know that the Florida Highway Patrol has turned the case over to investigators who are looking into the domestic violence issue as well as obtaining a search warrant.

Most, if not all the major media outlets had or have had this information prior to my blogs and were just not able for various reasons to print or air it and the fact that you read it here first does not make it speculation. If I didn't know the information was accurate I wouldn't write it here so there is any of you who have facts that can prove otherwise I would love to see them and would certainly make any corrections needed but I think you will find that all the information here is correct and factual based on what's been reported!

Message to Tiger Woods!!!!!!!!!!!

Tiger in your most recent statement you said "anything written about this incident is irresponsible". Let me tell you something Mr. Woods! Cheating on your wife and children is irresponsible! Lying about it to your family is irresponsible. Not Talking to the Police is irresponsible. Not being the person you portray yourself to be is irresponsible.

Do you really think you can lie to everyone on the planet and not get caught? Do you really think you can cheat on your wife and family and nobody is going to care? Do you think you are so powerful that people are just going to let you treat them like fools?

You need to swallow your pride and admit what you have done and maybe just maybe your wife (although I can't see how) will forgive you and your kids being so young will not have to relive your foolishness day in and day out! If your lucky and the world decides to forgive you, then maybe you will be in a position to tell people what they should think or feel about you but at the moment your the biggest scumbag on earth and you will be especially if you keep lying to the masses and the world. You made fools out of the people who supported you. You hurt the kids who admired you. You ruined your marriage and you hurt Golf! You no longer deserve respect from anyone! Your the lowest form of life and until you have proven yourself to be honest and choose to deal with people in a straight forward manner you will be on the bottom of the food chain. Do you think you would get 3 million dollars to appear at a tournament in Australia now? Do you even think you should be allowed to play golf on the PGA Tour. You will never be better than Jack or Arnie because your a scumbag!!!!!!!!

From Worlds best Golfer To Worlds Biggest Scumbag!!!!!!!!!!!

It's always hard when someone you respected and admired turns out to be human or less than! Over the past 72 hours I have been so happy and so blessed to be with my family and enjoy every minute of their company and then I would get on online only to find out that best player in the greatest game is a great big scumbag.

First, when the Enquirer broke the affair story it seemed like a joke! Then I thought about it and realized that Tiger and Nike are way to big for the Enquirer to be playing with so there must be quite a bit of truth to this. I decided to wait till more reports came in and then the accident happened. The police, trying to cover it up and protect Tiger when anyone with any reasonable type of mental capacity was able to determine at least what happened for the most part.

You just don't get facial laceration while driving a Cadillac Escalade by running over a hydrant and a tiny tree at the end of you driveway when your going slow. It's quite obvious his wife smashed the back window with a golf club and caused him to go off the road. If you want to believe something else then be my guest but it's openly obvious.

The only thing I can say in Tigers defense is that he didn't hit her or it appears that he is not a wife beater at least. He is however a cheater and therefore a scumbag.

The mainstream media and the golf media won't even touch this or they will try to cover it up but they have no choice. Tiger being a scumbag hurts them in the wallet as it does his sponsors and the game off golf. I guess we just thought Tiger was the man who had it all and when you find out he is a troubled individual it surprises us.

So Tiger may win more majors than Jack and Arnie but they both beat Tiger in the biggest major of all, LIFE!

Time will tell but here is my theory on the Tiger incident

According to reports Rachel Uchitel, according to a very good friend of hers, claims to be having an affair with Tiger. She evidently has seen the text messages etc. says the two are in love etc.

It sound like the FHP are not going to be honest in it's reporting and from the pieces of all the reports this is what I gather happened.

Ellen read the found out about the affair and confronted Tiger and he evidently tried to leave the house at 2:25 am. She chased him smashed the back window of his Escalade with a golf club causing him to hit a hydrant and a tree. Now everyone knows how big and Escalade is and how fast you would have to be going to hurt your face in an accident. One can only assume that Tigers wounds were related to a domestic squabble. Hence the police saying charges may be filed but no mention on who, or what kind of charges.

Don't you hate it when public agencies just lie out right to the very people who pay their salaries!

I guess you can have everything and still have nothing!

Consider the source before you believe Tiger is a scumbag!!!!!!!!

The National Enquirer recently reported that Tiger Woods is cheating on his wife and family http://thedailyfix.com/2009/11/25/tiger-woods-cheating-on-wife-with-new-york-party-gir Tiger has earned my respect and I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt in this matter until more info comes in.

I am afraid however that if Tiger does not sue the Enquirer then he appears guilty and if He does(which I assume he will) then we have a much better chance of finding out weather the best Golfer in the world is a scumbag or just being treated like on unfairly.

2009 the year that Asia took ownership of the LPGA

The 2009 LPGA season is complete and if you breakdown the results you will see that the LPGA Tour belongs to Asia and American is just kind enough to be the middle man and handle all the legwork for Asia's best golfers.

Of the 28 LPGA Tournaments

13 were won by Asian born Players

6 by European born Players

5 by American Players

3 by Mexican Players

1 by Australian Players

So if you consider this statistic it's clear that Asia is producing the very best golfers in the womens game. So my advice again is for the LPGA to embrace it. It's not going away. If history have proven one thing to you by now it should be that Golf is recession proof. If you continue to market your Tour as fashion and beauty and a bit of golf you will always be second rate. Market golf, the game, the excellence required to play the game, the integrity of the game and the greatness of the game. Blond and beautiful is fine if your fan base is into motorcycles or NASCAR! Fashion is fine if your selling clothes but not golf. Golf is where your bread and butter is and it makes no difference who hits the great shots. Golf fans love good golf. Please! Improve the quality of the golf! Then market it to the correct demographic and selectively. Make the LPGA a place where you have to be good to play! Where the competition is fierce! Where you have to be good week in and week out to be able to continue to compete and I guarantee that you will see results.

Great Finish at LPGA Tour Championship

Anna Norqvist played phenomenal golf today and won the Tour Championship and it got overshadowed by the player of the year race. She just took that tournament away from everyone and was impressive down the stretch. It was certainly fun to watch.
If I'm not mistaken none or maybe one of the top ten players came from the bad part of the draw meaning those who had to tee off late on Thursday and just got completely batter by the myriad of misfortunes that the Tournament forced them to deal with. I am glad however that the player of the year race was played under the same conditions throughout the event! It would have been sad if one of the players got the unfair advantage of playing in the bad half of the draw. It was a great finish and I feel so sorry for the players and the fans that were given such a raw deal by the very organization they support.

Interesting observations from the Tour Championship

I find it interesting that the LPGA say's 1.4" of rain fell on the course from Friday night till Sunday morning. The weather stations and National weather service indicate less than half of that amount.

Is it just me or has any one else noticed that when one popular LPGA golfer is playing well, everything is fine but the minute she is not playing well she is either sick or injured or both. I looked back at this and found that the history on this is uncanny and chronic. (hint is pink)


I have to say if Reilley Rankin is having trouble finding a sponsor then I have to believe with so many undeserving players out there that this could turn pandemic for the less accomplished players and journeyman with the exception being rookies.

Don't you find it hard not to pull for Jiyai Shin? She has something special about her and at the same time I certainly respect Lorena's game but have never been a fan.

Imagine if Heather Bowie Young were a good or even average putter!

Which is worse, golfing on a bad ankle or storming the field after a Stanford victory with one. As much as I hate to believe it, I contend premeditation.
(all the evidence is in her tweets)

Jeehae Lee WILL GET A PAY CHECK!!!!!Her second of the year and she will complete the 2009 LPGA season having shot ONE ROUND UNDER PAR!!!!! Can anyone else see how ridiculous it is that this is allowed to happen.



So it appears that the LPGA let's anyone who wants to withdraw, do so with impunity. Your allowed to take tournament spots away from people who would give anything for a chance and then quit. We will chalk that up to the LPGA's lack of integrity. Speaking of, Vicky Hurst threw in the towel also but didn't withdraw just gave up on her final round. Funny how you find out about people and Organizations when adversity hit's home!!!!!!

LPGA Mismanagement puts dark cloud over "Player Of The Year" Showdown

NOTICE TO LPGA: When you ask the world to watch and you fail to deliver, you lose credibility. When you have zero credibility to begin with, and you ask the world to watch and you blow it, you lose fans and sponsors! When you have no financial foundation to stand on and you lose Sponsors and fans then you go Bankrupt.

Just something to think about.!!! Your back is against the proverbial wall and your not performing! You can not expect the sponsors to honor their contracts if you can not live up to yours.

As of right this moment, some of the players have not been on the golf course for 2 1/2 days nor have some even started the second round. You didn't have the people or the resources to have this tournament! If you had, the course could have been managed and you would have been fine. Poor planning and even worse execution and decision making has turned the much hyped "Tour Championship" in to a laughable situation and there is nobody to blame except your staff. That should tell everyone what kind of people you have and show them exactly how inefficient you
are and clearly demonstrates your lack of ability to overcome adversity.
You may say I am being mean, but ask yourself to think of one, just one tournament that has been run so poorly in the entire history of golf. The answer is, that there has never been a more moronic display of ineptness in golf than what we are seeing from you right now!!!!!!!!!!!

LPGA Tour Championship is a disaster!!!!!!!!!!

If your having an elite LPGA event and you don't have the capability to deal with a 1/2 inch of rain. You don't deserve to have a tournament in the first place. The LPGA should be ashamed of themselves for not being staffed well enough nor having the people present to make a course playable after a mere 1/2 inch of rain. Every single person who payed for hotel rooms, Every single fan every single vendor should be fully reimbursed for the cost of trying to support the LPGA only to be kicked in the gut because the LPGA obviously has no idea what it's doing or simply can't do it at all.
If I were ROLEX I would demand my sponsorship money be returned in full! I have no doubt that in the sponsorship contract there is a negligence clause that would certainly be applicable under the circumstances. I feel sorry for the players! I feel sorry for the many sponsors of the players, the fans, the merchants in and around the Tournament. THE LPGA HAS STOLEN FROM ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!! by showing complete ineptitude and just terrible judgment and the inability to deal with adversity. I have lost all confidence in the leadership of the LPGA and it's lack of honesty, integrity, and ability! There was no reason for this! The obviously were not prepared to deal with this or they simply don't have the finances to do it. Either way the LPGA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP IS A DISASTER! They even put pictures of it raining at the Houstonian (which itis not raining) to try and smooth over their plight and decision to forgo play today even while playing lift, clean and place.
Do you realize in the old days that the golfers themselves would have been out there helping the LPGA with squeegees etc. o make the course playable. Not today the players hate their leadership and it's never been more evident!!!!!

LPGA turning Tour Championship into circus!!!!!!!!!!!!

The LPGA has again dropped the ball with respect to the Tour Championship. The three reports I got this morning were that the course is wet but playable and yet no one is playing! Your playing Lift, Clean and Place for god sakes how can you not be playing???? This is typical of the LPGA they just can't deal with adversity with any kind of professionalism. This is not a hard situation! You either play or you don't play and if you don't play the event becomes a 54 hole, one cut event.

I know there are all kinds of things to consider when you have weather, fans etc etc etc. The LPGA has been holding tournaments for decades. If you look back I'm sure there is another tournament that saw these very same circumstances. The idea is to learn from the past. Employ intelligent and decisive people and move on. This is a cluster @#$% and the LPGA again drops the ball. I have no Idea how the Players have any faith in their leadership because time and time again they prove how absolutley inept they really are.

Reilley Rankin, LongShot but my sentimental favorite!!!!!!!!

It's been a long time since Reilley has been in real contention. She plays a good round here and there but seldom does she put three of four good ones together and currently sits at #100 on the money list. Does anyone remember the terrible accident she had I believe in the late 90's. She broke her back in three places while at the time was playing for Georgia. She then came back in 2001 and lead them to the National Championship.

Not only is she absolutely adorable she has heart and I also heard Dottie Pepper say something about a recent illness to her mother although I don't and can't seem to find the details. Regardless, I would love Ms. Rankin to play some good golf and be able to walk away from this with her first win. If they are going to have a full field event for the Tour Championship there is no golfer outside the top 20 I would rather see get a win than this girl, who has the heart of a champion. She has been a marginal to good player since she's been on the tour and played some great golf in 2004. A win is A win however, and I for one would love to see it.

Jeehae (9 handicap) Lee Plays good golf in 1st Round!!!!!!!!

Jeehae Lee the LPGA's traveling 9 handicapper played a great opening round in an afternoon which saw some very good golfers give away strokes to a tough wind! She played a very commendable round and obviously has put in some time and I hope she can follow it up with another great round and make the first cut. The problem is it's looking like a rain out tomorrow and her chances might get rained away if the tournament is shortend to a 54 hole event.

Tony Ponturo Great move for LPGA, Leslie Greis, Michelle Ellis not so much.

Tony Ponturo, by all indications is a wonderful addition to the LPGA Board of Directors that needs an infusion of aggressiveness and action. Nobody can market like a Beer Company!!!!!!! I'm sure he will infuse an otherwise lazy and puppet like board into actually doing something positive for the good of the game and it's players and failure for Tony as has been proven is not an option.

Leslie Greis on the other hand has nothing to offer to anyone especially a poor performing board that should be completely overhauled with people who will take action and move the LPGA in a positive direction instead of using their seat as a random source of disposable income. She has a pretentiousness about her! She has been an independent director since 2007 and really added nothing of significance to the LPGA. She was on the finance committee and look where that go you!!!!!! She was present and quiet during the Bivens catastrophe and look where that got you. She is a fellow Harvard grad and I hate to speak in a negative tone about her but, Come on people, what in gods name could you be thinking! Common sense would tell you she has done nothing to help the LPGA and will not in the future!

Michelle Ellis is a wonderful person and has the type of personality that makes the people around her feel comfortable. She has been dealing with private issues most of this season and I think that the players did not want to pull the rug out from under her by electing a new president, but girls I have to tell you, This is the most crucial time in the life of the LPGA. It's sink or swim and to carry the same president into this new adjustment period that could not be present during the change over is really not a good idea. Michele can do the job, of that there is no question but new blood now is better and all the old and negative issues need to be replaced with sound strategy and positive ideas. You can't keep they same people and expect things to change is my point. People don't change! New ideas and a new approach is what you needed and you failed to see that. A new commissioner is great but you needed to have people who are on board with the program and not content to leave things progress slowly without change!

Jeehae Lee in Tour Championship after Birdie Kim withdraws!!!!!!!!

Jeehae Lee, Ms. +9 handicap and currently #156 on the LPGA money list is in the Tour Championship! Just never mind that she only made one cut all year and finished 22 shots off the pace. Never mind that she has earned a whopping $3,989 dollars total this year with her one made cut. Never mind that she finished her one made cut in a tie for 57. Never mind that she has never finished a tournament under par. She is playing!!!!!!! Just another example of the LPGA not caring about it's quality of product when by the rules there are 36 women ahead of LEE who I can not believe did not put themselves on the alternates list.

She is a truly beautiful girl and very intelligent but she has not earned anything this year and like many others has no business in this event. It will be interesting to see what kind of work she has put in since she has only played a couple times in the last 3-4 months. One would think she would have had plenty of time to work on her game especially when she is staring down the final stage of Q-School. Jeehae Lee, missing the cut has been the safest wager in sports all season! I hope it changes and the LPGA should be ashamed of themselves for even letting her play! There are some great players sitting at home this week who could add to the quality of the field and your answer is Jeehae (9 handicap) Lee!!!!!!!

Picks for LPGA Tour Championship

It's the final week of the LPGA season. Like all the players and everyone else concerned with the LPGA, I too am just happy the year is almost over and hope that the tenure of Mr. Whan will see prosperity and growth in the sport I get so much enjoyment from. The new Commissioner has all the makings of a good fit for the job I just hope he is given the support that has been lacking for so very long.Namely from a terrible Board of Directors and their lackluster do nothing approach.

Ok, the seasons final event has really only one subplot and that is the player of the year race between Shin and Ochoa. It really is interesting when you consider that for Shin it's been a great year by anyone's standards except for Ochoa's. Ochoa has been criticized for having a poor year compared with her past achievements and it's kind of sad to see that the only person other than Shin who has a legit shot at being player of the year, is looked at negatively while Shin has been praised for a tremendous year.
I am looking forward to the duel myself! I believe that Shin is 8 points ahead of Ochoa. These to wonderful players could make it very special if they were in the same pairing on Sunday and among the leaders.

My picks for this week are

Winner = Yani tseng

Second = Jiyai Shin

Third = Michele Wie

Fourth = Lorena Ochoa


119th = Nicole Castrale

120th = Erica Blasberg

Comments on LPGATour 2010 schedule.

The LPGA announced it's 2010 schedule which includes 24 events in 10 countries and seems to be quite nicely put together. The only real problems I see are the Wegman's LPGA Championship and failure to spend enough time in Asia, where if your looking ahead most of your best sponsorship opportunities will be.

The Problem with Wegmans hosting the LPGA at Locust Hill is it will always be a journeyman event. I have attended several times and most recently as a guest of V-Tech this past year. I'm sure Wegmans will do everything first class as only Danny Wegman does and am glad he is able to keep a tournament in the Southern Tier area since the Corning Classic has faltered. It's the Course, Locust Hill has absolutely no business hosting a Major event. They don't even hold elite amateur events there because it's really not a competitive course and there is little you can do to it to make it so. I for one hate to see 20 under par in a major championship with the cut being -3. I think the Majors should be a test to determine the best golfer under the toughest conditions and Locust Hill can not provide that. So the LPGA championship hosted by Wegmans will be a putting contest!Oak Hill is 20 minutes away from Locust hill and a world class site. Just something to think about.

The rest of the schedule looks pretty solid. It look's geographically demanding for the players as far as travel on consecutive weeks but I'm happy with the number of events and have to give Marty Evans credit for keeping the ship afloat in her interim as Commish.

Lets dissect the problems of the LPGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's take a look at the problems the LPGA has and what the New Commissioner has to overcome to get the Tour back on track and started in the right direction.

Problem one. Loss of sponsorships This is by far the most obvious, and there are many reasons for it! The first being the almost criminal activity of Carolyn Bivens in dealing with the sponsors. Secondly, for a sponsor to plunk down that amount, in this economic climate, there has to be some benefit for them. At this time the LPGA has no prestige, no integrity, and no fan generating power. Third, the players themselves aside from a very select few are not even ingratiating to fans off the course, except on camera. So the great companies want nothing to do with the LPGA players nor the tour.

Problem two. The LPGA is hurting financially. This week is an obvious example. The tour Championship should be a reward to the very best players for playing great golf! After all this is what the LPGA is supposed to be about. Instead the LPGA is making it an ugly money grubbing full field event(to maximize revenue from the pro-am). I find this disgusting and so should the top players but I imagine at this point and time they are just glad to have an event.

Problem Three. The LPGA Board of directors is collectively incompetent and does nothing except what they are told to do. Look what Bivens did to the tour right under their collective noses. Until you get solid oversight from people who care and are not just on the Board to say they are on the Board then the LPGA will never prosper.

Problem Four. Failure to embrace the Asian Golfers and make them as important to the tour off the course as on has hurt tremendously. Jiyai Shin should be a household name to golf fans now!!!!! She has everything including a respect for the game that anyone could want in a role model for their child.

Problem Five. Your players have no idea about the history of the game the integrity of the game and why it needs to be maintained nor do they understand why golf is different than sports that are driven by ticket sales rather than sponsors. They don't get the fact that on or off the course they represent the LPGA. They think once they take their spikes off that they are off duty. Well to be a professional and have the respect of a professional you need to always be professional.

Problem six. The quality of golf is poor. There is a huge gap between the top middle and poorer players on the tour. This has caused the LPGA to be dishonest in it's course preparation and in posting yardages etc., in an attempt to make it appear to fans that the players are better and hitting the ball farther than they really are. If the LPGA does not care about it's integrity nor the integrity of the game then why would anyone want to be involved with them.

Problem Seven. No TV exposure. few except the for the US. Open and the Kraft and maybe the British Open get any live coverage at all and most of the events you get 90 minutes on the Golf Channel, often tape delayed and after you already no what happened. What sponsor in their right mind would want to be involved in this. In turn what TV network would want to be involved with an organization like the LPGA that has lost it's ethics and it's integrity and is moving towards golf in bikini's


I appreciate your in put and arguments but if you want to argue be prepared with facts.

Listen !!!!!!!! LPGA, if you want respect you need to earn respect

It seems that several of the LPGA players and office people have a problem with my take on the Tour Championship coming up this week in Houston. Well let me give you some facts about your so called Tour Championship.

1. There are only 10-12 players on your entire tour who have a remote chance of winning.

2. Your bringing in a full field wrought with bad players to make money off the pro-ams. When it should be a reward for only the top players.

3. It's really not a Tour Championship at all but rather just another over hyped tour event. The Samsung or The Lorena Ochoa events were far superior than this Tour Championship and not hinged on money making pro-am schemes

4. Eric Blasberg is in the field for crying out loud! What kind of reward is being in the Tour Championship if Erica Blasberg is in the field! This girl couldn't place in the top 20 if 100 players withdrew but she can swear and drink like a truck driver whose twitter account needs a MA rating!

5. The LPGA is in trouble!!! Be honest with people fans and sponsors and you will get the help you need but hiding behind your inept leadership and Board are not going to improve your standing. Keep treating your fans like idiots and see how well it works for you.

I should not have singled out Erica Blasberg, who was a great college player but can't seem to be able to play the game anymore. There are many of these girls who are lacking in any kind of social grace which is evident if you follow them on twitter. Jane Park, Christina Kim, Nicole Hage, Paige Mackenzie just don't get it. They can't seem to act like ladies or professionals except in front a TV camera. They are young but there is a reason they don't get the big name sponsors and that reason is they are time bombs who will blow up at anytime and make complete fools of themselves the tour and the sponsors.

I'm pleading with the LPGA Leadership!!! Get you act together. Embrace your fans. Get ideas from them (they know better than you what they like). Control your players! Don't let a few out of control immature types ruin your progress. Do the right thing and most of all turn over a new leaf and be honest with people. Your fans are not stupid so don't treat them like they are.

Congratulations to Michele Wie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She did it!!!!!! Nobody can take this away from her. I was the toughest field the LPGA can put up and she won it! It has to be a huge relief and I for one am happy for her and hope she can fulfill the expectations she has for herself and not worry about the ones everyone else has for her. I was proven wrong all kinds of ways this week! Paula Creamer and Christie Kerr Played tough even while in contention. The Americans came to play this week and I'm not sure why we haven't seen it week in and week out like we do on the men's tour especially since the LPGA tour is only about 20-30 players deep.

I for once am very glad to have been wrong about my predictions for this event and hope we can see great strides taken in womens golf and the the LPGA in general in 2010. I love this game! I know I'm very critical and often rough on the girls but to get the LPGA where it has the potential to go and to get back the respect and fanbase it has lost it will take all the players and administration to work together.

Ok now Wie made a few bad decisions coming down the stretch and nobody could take advantage which I was expecting Shin and Tseng both to just jump on their chances but it never happened. It was a great tournament to watch and my only hope is that soon we will be able to see much more of the LPGA on TV.

Creamer and Kerr woll falter Wie unpredicable

Hey yesterday I incorrectly stated that Uribe was Mexican when in fact she is Colombian (thank you to the reader who corrected me). I apologize for that mistake but stick to my disbelief that she was given an obviously advantageous ruling that can not be found in the rules of golf.

Ok, Creamer, Kerr and Wie in the top 5 going into the final round!!!!! How long have we waited for this? I predict that cCeamer and Kerr will falter! I hope I'm wrong but neither has proven they can play while in contention in a final round of late. Wie is the one I can't pinpoint. I hope it's her time but I just can't see any of them getting past Shin and Tseng who you know, are both going low tomorrow. It would be great to see a an American win this event but I think the smart money is on Shin and Tseng with Wie being a wildcard.

I'm not sure if any of you know who Tim Vickers is but he works for the David Ledbetter Golf Academy and also did some caddy work for Michele Wie. He was or is currently the very beautiful and intelligent Jeehae Lee. Now I often mention Jeehae Lee in this blog because she is not a very good golfer and is a fine example of the way the LPGA allows poorer player to play in tournaments ahead of much better players.

Well Vickers, in his defense, tries to defend his girlfriend and leaves me little notes and tweets about refuting things I have mentioned etc. The problem is Tim is just not a very bright guy and really has no idea what he is talking about so if I miss a punctuation mark here or misspell a word there it's all he has to complain about and he jumps on it. I give him credit for trying and laugh at him regularly when I know he spent more time writing me one little message and making sure he has done it correctly, than anyone with a real job and real life would actually have time to do. So here is to you Tim!! When we meet I hope we can argue over a tall pint of Guinness. By the way who is Cooper Fenton? Oh and Christina you misused your attempt at Latin!

Poor Michele Wie!!!!!!!!!!

Michele Wie is sitting 3 back at -8 and tied for second place. This is a positive for her. Getting interviewed however, is a negative. You would think that as much press and as many interviews as this girl has done that she would acquire some kind of presence but it's not happening. I know she is intelligent but she certainly comes off like and uneducated gas station employee when in front of the camera. Nike or the LPGA or someone needs to spend sometime with her making her interview skills at least presentable. She must have said "you Know" 4 times per sentence and at least 80 times during a short interview. I know they just cringe in the Stanford administrative building when Wie is getting inteviewed. If that is any indication of how good the Stanford education is than I tell anyone I know to keep their kids away from there.

Did anyone see when creamer and Uribe played the 18th hole and Uribe hit a terrible shot that ended up on the down slope into the bunker was stopped from rolling in the bunker by the rough. They let her move it an place on the fringe and be putting. There was no sprinkler head there and nothing the rules would allow for a move like that but she is Mexican and playing at home and it was so ridiculous. Is it no wonder we can't take the LPGA seriously anymore it's going away from golf and heading towards entertainment.

Creamer will fade down the stretch!

Everyone loves Paula Creamer including me! She say's all the right things although they oft repeated rehearsed answers to all the usual tournament questions and her injuries so by now we have heard them all a 1000 times. She is good for the game and a very good player. It would be nice to see here stick around down the stretch when the pressure is on this week but her MO this season is she will fade when things start to get tough. If she is in contention when Sunday starts she will play poorly and if she is not in contention then she will play a stellar pressure less round to get back within a few shots of the lead.
I would like to again address the LPGA or who ever set up this tournament. The course is incredibly easy and the LPGA is reporting 6600 yards when in fact it is just a hair over 6200! I just don't understand why they do that! If anyone does please fill me in. I understand it makes no difference but to mislead people so they think that these women are playing like men is wrong, there are integrity issues and it helps no one!

Lorena Ochoa will find some magic and go low in one of these rounds, after all it's her home course and she has played hundreds of rounds on it! She is just not quite the old Lorena her precision with her irons is off just a hair and she is not getting the great birdie chances we are accustom to seeing from her.

Did everyone see the spot where Jiyai Shin was doing a promo and said "Lorena I'm here at your home and I brought my best game" It was adorable. She is adorable and has a wonderful smile and a great attitude for this game.

I forgot all about Suzann Pettersen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I made my picks for the Ochoa event I forgot all about Tutta, She will be a factor in this even. I have no idea how I could have forgot her since I have been looking forward to her getting back since she left. This girl has all the tools to own the LPGA tour for the next two or three or even more years. She is also a fierce competitor and is driven to succeed in golf. She's long had the short game of Anika and putts pretty fair. It would not surprise me to see her run away from the field at this event. Rumor has it that that Kerr chic is playing some good golf also but I can't see her being a factor given recent travel.

Ochoa tournament has only 10 americans

Only 10 American players are in the tentative field this week and I expect less than that to actually play. There are only 36 golfers so it's my contention there will be one American in the top 10 and that one will come from the players who were not in the Mizuno tournament in japan last week. Our American Girls don't travel well and play well in consecutive weeks. Sure they can travel and play well from Albany to Rochestser but going from the US to Korea to Japan to Mexico, umm no they don't do it well. So expect Angela Stanford, Pressel and Wie to be Americans best hopes this week but expect them to get routed by Ochoa, Shin and Tseng who are playing for something.

Fond Farewell to my Titleist 681 irons

The time has come!!!!!! I have been putting it off far to long and now it has come. My beloved Titleist 681 blades are in need of being replaced. They have been my best golf partner for a very long time and have seen through many of my very best and most enjoyable years of golf. I will miss my old friends and am not looking forward to embarking on the unpleasant path of replacing them.

For those of you who are not familiar with the 681 forged blades, they are by any standard the premier players irons. The are workable and somewhat forgiving and soft as butter. I have hit many different clubs and never have I found any as comfortable as these. If it were possible I would have another set made rather than switch but alas time and progress has changed the game and I must move with it or left behind.

Titleist is to golf what Louis Vuitton is to ladies purses. It's the standard by which all others are compared and their excellence in all areas of golf is evident. They make the very best golf balls and have for so many years. They make the best equipment and have for so many years. Sure they get out marketed by the likes of Taylor Made/Addidas and Callaway but only because their products are the best and the need for the Golf Companies to pay incredible sums to players to play their products that are altered to play very much like the ones Titleist produces can they survive. I'm a huge fan of Titleist and it will always be where my golfing allegiance will lie!

So in my effort to replace my 681 irons I will go to the titleist performance center if I can manage to get in and have new clubs made in an effort to duplicate and maybe even improve on the what is in my mind the very best irons ever made the forged Titleist 681's

More on the fraud of golf instuctors!!!!!

A few more things about golf instruction! If you have a problem in your game and go to a golf instructor for a lesson I will bet you and give you 4 to 1 odds that if you visit five golf instructors they will give you five different fixes to your problem and five different reasons for it. I really think it is a huge con game if your a golfer with a handicap lower than 18. The only way that they will help is if you use the same teacher and then all you end up doing is playing his game which is probably not the game or swing that fits you or your body type. I know there are great golf teachers out there and they all they want to do is help you have more fun playing golf and improve but it's all right in front of you!!!!! Every shot technique, every swing path, every idea behind it and every type of shot is here on the web. There is so much information on every single aspect of golf and so many different views on each that all that needs done is to research and find the person who swings like you! I don't mean their swing looks like yours, but rather there club is at the same steepness and on the same plane at impact.

Golf instruction real or rubbish????????????????

Golf lessons for veteran golfers are something I can't seem to wrap my head around. I understand that some need instruction at the beginning stages of golf but after you have developed a solid fundamental knowledge of golf and the golf swing why would you need someone to teach you how to improve.

Take Mike Breed for example, the golf channels fast talking guy! You would waste your time working on half the stuff he teaches. Some of it is correct but lots of it is just so wrong in it's theory and execution that if you did see any improvement it would be because your hand eye coordination was improving and not your shot making ability. These days, if there is a shot you want to hit or something you need to work on, you can look it up on the web and see 10 guys hitting the same shots and their theories behind why and go out and try them all and see which one works best for you. NOTE TO ALL GOLF INSTRUCTORS AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!!!! All golfers are not the same, there is not one or even two universal golf swings to be taught. Lessons should be about the impact of the club and the golf ball and getting to that point. This nonsense about gigantic follow through and double follow through and all of that is just nonsense. Teach the important part of golf and not whatever it is your trying to teach other than the "at impact portion" and getting to "impact". The beauty of the golf swing is superfluous and it's sad that so many people have beautiful golf swings but can't play a lick.


The secret to putting is practicing and practicing properly. The same with all other aspects of the game. every thing you need is right on the web and done by the golfers who do it better than anyone else not some guy who makes his living telling you how to do it because he can't do it well enough!

I understand Dave Pelz is the guru of the short game but is anything he says really anything that a veteran golfer hasn't heard before. NO it's not!!!!! It wont ever be but people have this need to think they will improve their game by paying people to tell them how to improve their game rather than taking it on themselves. Is it really YOUR golf game, or are you a typical golf instructor robot! Please don't be one!!!!!!!!!!

LPGA's best smile finding nothing to smile about!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nicole Castrale has one of if not the most engaging smile on the planet and she is always smiling. Of late however, her smiles are not golf related. She can't seem to get out of her own way on the golf course since the a t17 at the US Open in July. I feel bad for her and her husband/caddy as nothing can be worse than living the golf life and not being able to do anything right. You just want to give a her a huge hug and say it's going to be OK and it will all work out! As much as I hope it does work out for Nicole, who is one of the truly genuinely nice(all the time) girls on the tour, I'm skeptical. My recommendation is to put the clubs down! Don't even play out the string! Just get away and forget golf for two solid months until you miss it so bad it hurts. She has been playing every event and really not even competing but just showing up. It can't be fun for her.

LPGA Tour Championship really nothing special!!!!!!!!!!

The LPGA will play it's season ending Tour Championship November 19th - 22. Which is great, the problem is they are allowing the top 120 golfers on the money list to play in it. This means currently Marisa Baena who is number 120 could be rewarded for making 7 out of 15 cuts and whose best finish was a tie for 32nd. Now if you ask me there really is nothing special here other than the fact that they will cut down to 70 after 36 holes and then down to 30 after 54 holes. Why waste peoples time and just let the top 30 shoot it out rather than including 40 other players who do not deserve to be there?

In other LPGA news, why would the players allow Christina Kim another term on the Board! She was a big Bivens supporter and fought to hide the terrible things she did that caused the tour so much grief. What are you players thinking? This girl just does not get the the concept of the what the LPGA is trying to do. She has no idea why the integrity of the game needs to come first and why golf supersedes other sports in the need for conservative intelligent promotion.

PGA ruins career of Doug Barron

The PGA made a huge error in the Doug Barron suspension and if I was Doug Barron I would make them pay. They have taken away his livelihood they have stripped him of his honor and why? Here is why, the PGA had to show people they were in fact testing for drugs! The only way for people to know they were and make it public was for someone to get caught. Does any one believe for one second that Doug Barron was taking PED's? So at Barrons expense, the PGA looks like it's making a legitimate effort to expose PED's on it's tour. They had to catch someone and why not someone insignificant to the tour. It' really rather sickening when you think about it.

Splittail picks for LPGA Mizuno

The LPGA is in Japan this week and it's fitting since the top three finishers will all be Asian.

Yani Tseng will win this event

Jiyai Shin will be runner up

Ai Miyazato will make a respectable surge on Sunday to wow her hometown fans and finish third!

Just a note to everyone, compare the smiles on the faces of these three ladies and see how genuine they are and then look at the smiles on our American girls and this will tell you everything you will need to know about why Asian players seem to taking over women's golf!!

Would the LPGA please choose Golf or Glamor

In a day when the LPGA is no longer the "Elite" women's golf tour on the planet,well except for the purses. It's becoming more and more obvious that they are moving from a quality golf tour to a glitz and glamor type tour. No longer do the beat players get the accolades (see Anika) but they go to the best looking players. I will use Natalie Gulbis as an example here. A mediocre type player who always turns in her best rounds on sunday when not in contention! Not in an effort to win mind you but to get into the top ten or 15. Like clock work you can count on Gulbis to shoot one poor and two ok rounds and then blister a 67 on sunday with no pressure on her. You can also count on the media making her out to be the greatest player since Patty Berg to ever set foot on a golf course. Who care about the fact that she could not even qualify to play in her own countries championship or that she was crushed by amateurs half her age trying to qualify. The reason, nobody wears shorter skirts or tighter shirts! Now you have players like Anna Rawson and Taylor Leon doing calendars, who are not elite player by any standard, commanding attention that should go to Shin and Miyazato and Ochoa.

Players Like Nicole Hage and Jeehae Lee who have no business playing in tournaments with Suzann Petterson and Brittany Lang are given status to do so regardless of how consistently poorly they play! No sir, I contend it's no longer about golf it's about sex and marketing. I find it sad and I guarantee you if you ask Beth Daniel (off the record of course)Nancy Lopez and especially Patty Sheehan, they will give you the very same answer. Nope the LPGA has lost it's integrity and when that happens in the golf world and your not John Daly you won't get a second chance.

Why do LPGA players think their fans are idiots and LPGA Challange!!!!!!!

Fact 1. Most LPGA golf fans have been playing golf far longer than any of the players on the tour!

Fact 2. These very same fans know the rules of golf and have per capita a higher education level than the players on the tour!

So why is it when a fan says something about the the tour. The LPGA player always replies "you don't know anything about the LPGA or it's players" Like it's some kind of rocket science. It's golf Ladies and lots of us out here can play it better than you!!!!!!

You never ever would get a reply like that from a PGA Tour Professional, They realize how hard they work to get to and stay on the tour and how much the presence of fans help their game. Not so with the LPGA! They can't handle the truth and really don't want to hear it! They think their fans are idiots and away from the tournaments they treat them like they are. Oh sure there are some genuinely nice girls on the LPGA Tour the problem is not them being nice it's that they think because they are "Professional Golfers" that they know more about the game than any fan could!
So I would like to pose a challenge to the LPGA. Pick four LPGA players ( any four) and I will pick four LPGA golf fans and we will play a small event and see just how good your ladies really are? I understand if your hesitant! When you can't control the set up or bluff the yardages it could prove disastrous. I'm here and ready if you think your women are as good as they think they are!

If that idea scares you to much here is another. You put Nicole Hage, Dorothy Delasin and Jeehae Lee and any other LPGA player you choose and I will find four female LPGA fans and you can try your luck that way. You want to call these women"professionals" lets see just how good they can play?

Pops and Sunshine, Great golf read by Dave Andrews (harvard)

I just finished a great little book about a Duramed Futures Tour rookie and her trials and tribulations of being on tour away from home but also about the joy she brings to the small towns she visits and the people she comes in contact with. Dave Andrews (Harvard 73) was kind enough to send me a signed copy and it was as enjoyable a book as I have read in sometime. It's a must read for a golf fan and really anyone who enjoys a great story. www.popsandsunshine.com is the website and I highly recommend everyone get a copy for a few hours of pure enjoyment.

Kim &Pressel Quit Tseng & Hjorth play well

Wow, I was watching the Hanna Bank via internet and I saw something I never though I would see and hope I never see again. Two members of the US top twenty "Professional Golfers" just quit, they just gave up on their rounds. Morgan Pressel and Christina Kim should have phoned it in because they embarrassed themselves the tour and the Country. I had always respected Pressel as a fierce competitor! I know better now she is a fair weather girl. The same with kim.

The conditions were poor it was wet and cold but Maria Hjorth stood toe to toe with Tseng and Choi and matched them shot for shot. You really find out about golfers during adverse conditions and now we no Maria Hjorth, Yani Tseng and Choi have heart and Pressel and Kim are fair weather no adversity type players who lack the personal pride to work and improve when the sun is not shining.