A poor young man failed in his attempt to sue a school district for the right to compete as a male on a female interscholastic athletic team. This hearkens back to Brian Kontak’s bragadaccio about participating in the US Women’s Open with his wee-wee intact. May I speak for all of society when I write that I am fed up with this polemic? Competition is all about defeating the better opponent. When you conquer one level, you move on. For a male to compete against females in most sports, the point is moot. I have read ... full post »

This is almost laughable. Is Carolyn Bivens broke already? Can’t LPGA.Com afford real-time scoring for their Q-School? Around the corner at PGATour.com, the scoring system is the same as for any weekly event. The ladies are reduced to posting PDFs each round…PDFs, for goodness’ sake. Like this is some inter-office announcement for Schweddy Balls, instead of a Q-School for the top distaff professional tour in the world. If I were a woman, I’d be insulted. Just last…whatever, my glorious self posted a blog ranking the leaderboards on the major tours. If this ... full post »

Sometimes numbers lie. If they don’t lie, they certainly don’t tell the whole story. I’ve spent the better part of 2006 using Steven Bowditch’ misfortunes as fodder for at least one blog per month. You’d think I might have dug a little deeper, imagined a reason for Bowditch’ wildly inconsistent play in his first season on the PGA Tour. Fortunately for me, a little trip around the web to my favorite golf sites uncovered the above-linked article on Steven Bowditch. The New Zealander, a stranger in a strange land, had more working against him than ... full post »

Weep for Steven Bowditch on this Thanksgiving Saturday. In contention at the MasterCard Masters, the lad from NZ roared into contention with 68-69. For those who did not follow in 2006, it was the stuff of nightmares. This is the guy who blows up inconceivably, who graduated to the PGA Tour in 2006 on the strength of a $180000 payday at the Jacobs Creek Open (Nationwide Tour) in Australia. Didn’t need to do much the rest of the year to finish top 20. Since he hit the PGA Tour, thought, we’ve seen one disaster after another. The ... full post »

The most wary of words…If All Goes As Planned…have been applied to the latest golfing stunt, courtesy of Element 21. Element 21 is a rising spec in the golf industry. With offices in Toronto, Jersey City, and a sales distributor in Germany, Element 21 is basing its hopes on two elements: scandium and a shot seen across the sky. Scandium is, briefly, a Russian-designed element, while the shot seen across the skies is a blast from a Russian cosmonaut this evening. Anchored to a special tether, with the ball encased in a unique sleeve, Mikhail Tyurin will ... full post »

It might surprise you to find out that RonMon is half-mennonite, half technologian, and half baked. We know that adds up to three halves, but the third half explains it all. The half-mennonite refers to the fact that cable television is absent in the Mon household. Local stations and public t.v. are all you’ll view if you stop by for a brew (of coffee, that is.) As such, RonMon (third person…nice touch) is left to utilize the various wifi feeds in the ‘hood to keep up with the various tours. Each of the tours presents a live leaderboard of some form ... full post »

With all the news lately about the fourth course at Bandon Dunes, perhaps the most interesting is the role of Tom Doak as architect. Doak calls his design firm Renaissance Golf, and his team of architects, renaissance men. Mike Keiser, the buddha of bandon, has gone on record that, even though he broke with his strategy of unique architects in hiring Doak a second time, the true architect of Old MacDonald will be CB Maxwell, err, I mean, MacDonald himself. Given the locale, the team, and the ownership, how’d you like to have a shot at a paid internship ... full post »

Time for a good battle of words with a fellow blogger. Don’t you hate it when bloggers kow-tow to each other, avoiding a toe-stomp? Well, none of that here at TG. Why, I remember back in the day when I used to argue with Old McDonald and Bold-Whine about … well, actually I forget. No matter. Here you have today’s tift: I wrote a response to CB Maxwell’s maiden blog, where he told us every stinking, unimportant detail of his life, except what brand of toilet paper he favors (I’m told it’s Charmin.) ... full post »

While the young Love IIIs no doubt wore cute costumes related to horseriding or Orange County choppers (like the one they built for Dad), Father Davis III had a much tougher choice. At first, he considered wearing the outfit that won the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro. It used to be a nice fit (when he called it the Heritage Classic costume) and made him popular with Ryder Cup captains from the advent of his PGA Tour career through 2005. Another option was the outfit he selected for Thursday’s opening round of the Tour Championship Presented By Coca-Cola, ... full post »