Booooooooooooooo! No, they’re not booing! They’re Boo’ing.

Golf is better when Tiger Woods is winning tournaments and the only thing that makes it more fun is when Boo Weekley wins, too. He’s a redneck and talks like one (“ain’t” is a regular in his vocabulary), loves beer (the cheap, American kind) and singing (if you’re walking down the fairway with him, he’ll likely be crooning and making up his own lyrics to a familiar tune), and I’m pretty sure he golfs to support his fishing habit.

What you see is what you get, though he is smarter than he may lead you to believe, and everybody loves Boo, who broke his five-year victory drought at the Colonial Invitational.  (continue reading…)

Singh admitted he used deer antler spray and it’s the Tour’s fault? 

As expected, TPC Sawgrass was buzzing with the news of Vijay Singh, who filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour on Wednesday, the day before its flagship event, The Players Championship. It was a surprising turn of events since the Tour had cleared Singh of any wrongdoing last week, and the timing couldn’t have been any better — by better, I mean, worse.

Singh’s complaint purports the Tour’s action resulted in the Hall of Fame golfer to be “humiliated, ashamed, ridiculed, scorned and emotionally distraught.” (You can read the full complaint here.) He also claims the Tour acted unlawfully in the handling of the testing of the deer antler spray that Singh used.  (continue reading…)

Billy Ho celebrating

Everyone on Tour knew it was only a matter of time before Billy Horschel secured his first PGA Tour victory. Horschel was playing too well. He was swinging too pure. He had made a Tour-leading 23 consecutive cuts. He had finished in the top-10 in his previous three starts — runner-up at the Shell Houston Open, T3 at the Texas Valero Open, and T9 at the RBC Heritage. He was simply due.

Despite two rain delays on Sunday at TPC Louisiana, including one that lasted almost an hour after the 26-year-old from Florida had hit his drive, Horschel kept his nerve and holed a birdie putt from 26 feet to clinch the victory at the Zurich Classic. (continue reading…)

Yes, that is indeed Bill Murray, sporting an interesting beard!

Of course that’s a reference to Bill Murray’s facial hair. The Pebble Beach National Pro-Am regular is making a scene, per usual. He’s partnered up with D.A. Points, who won the event in 2011 — the pair were also victorious in the pro-am portion of the tournament.

Murray and Points played at Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Shore Course on Thursday, and posted a team effort of five-under 65, putting them in a tie for 51st after the opening round.

Here’s a closer shot of Murray’s beard: (continue reading…)

"This isn't like a plug, but uh..."

Thanks to my buddy Loper for urging me to find Matt Every’s post-round interview on Thursday after he fired a course record nine-under 63 to take the early lead. Now, of course Every has gained notoriety most recently for his epic, pretty awkward sit-down with Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman at the Sony Open in January. (In case anyone needs a refresher, go here.) (continue reading…)

Is that a brick or VHS player? Every says "rectangle"...

So how about that Saints vs. 49ers game?? Now that kept us awake entertained in the media center! Oh, wait, you want to hear about the Sony Open? Fine. First of all, I’d like to thank everyone involved in the whole Matt Every interview debacle for making the rest of the sporting world aware there’s a golf tournament happening.

I wandered out on the back nine to check out the action — mostly because I wanted to see in person the brick-like putter Every is wielding. For those wondering, it’s called the “Black Hawk” (and yes, it’s legal — Every has the USGA papers). (continue reading…)

http://youtu.be/UWnqIDI9Y9s

The Golf Channel’s PGA Tour coverage is, typically, something of a televisual Stepford; a precariously balanced world of stilted banter, sporting non sequiturs and avuncular asides, all of it held in place by little more than a selection of fetching tie pins, Kelly Tilghman’s endless capacity to be fascinated by shrubbery, and hairspray, lots and lots of hairspray.

By its strange, otherworldly system of values, the commentary-booth presence of Nick Faldo can be considered edgy, even exciting. (continue reading…)

Cauley clicking on Tour

Bud Cauley had the advantage of teeing off in the morning on a breezy day at Waialae Country Club, but somewhere late on the first nine, the wind picked up. He was frustrated with some of his wedge shots, but he posted a two-under 68 in the second round to follow his opening four-under 66.

It wasn’t one of his best rounds, but it kept him in contention. The rookie is six-under at the halfway point of the Sony Open, putting him in solid position at T7 and four shots behind leader Matt Every, who lit up Waialae on Friday. (continue reading…)

Every lights it up

Matt Every finally makes news for his golf game, rolling in birdies on his last three holes to shoot six-under 64, 10-under total, to lead the Sony Open by two shots at the halfway mark (unless Doug Labelle, who has five holes to play, makes a few birdies coming in).

It’s impossible not to look back to the summer of 2010 during his rookie season at the John Deere Classic when he was arrested (along with two caddies) for possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), a misdemeanor charge — which was eventually dropped (he never even had to appear in court). He was later suspended by the PGA Tour for three months for “conduct unbecoming a professional.” (continue reading…)

And the winner for the 2010 PGA Tour Darwin Award goes to Matt Every. The dregs and drunks of the Quad Cities welcomed Every to the Scott County Jail on Tuesday, two days before he teed off for the John Deere Classic, after he was charged for possession of controlled substance (marijuana) at the Island Casino Hotel Bettendorf. Gasp — pro golfers smoke weed!

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