A few months late to the game, but who am I kidding?!? — I love the Harlem Shake!
On Tuesday at the PGA Tour Wives Golf Classic, Billy Horschel, Daniel Summerhays, and a few others joined their wives in the Tour version of the popular dance. Well done!
Gay has his eye on the prize…
I probably shouldn’t admit what I’m about to say, but it’ll give you an idea of just how glamorous my life on tour is. On Saturday evening at dinner a few friends and I were chatting about golf (what else? /eyeroll) and we were guessing what 54-hole leader Scott Stallings had to shoot or the other guys that we thought had a shot at catching him.
See, thing is, a five-shot lead at the Palmer Private isn’t much of a lead. There were tons of guys who were in range to catch him– with some help from Stallings — because you have to assume at least one or two guys will shoot a 62 and/or 63. One friend said, “Four-under. Scott needs to shoot four-under to guarantee a victory.” I agreed.
Scott
Scott Stallings isn’t your household name, but if you’re a golf geek, then you are familiar with the 27-year-old Tennessee resident (a native of Worcester, Ma and Patriots fan.). Well, everyone should pay more attention to Stallings, who is leading by five shots heading into the final round of the Humana Challenge.
He shot nine-under 63 at Nicklaus Private on Saturday to get to twenty-two-under for the tournament. He was the only player that was bogey-free after 36 holes and he kept that streak going with another flawless round. (continue reading…)
Bubba Watson & his caddie Ted Scott have some fun: Teddy assists Bubba by holding the ball in place.
The forecast at Kapalua’s Plantation Course continues to plague the 2013 Hyundai Tournament of Champions with strong winds and gusts up to 50mph. Not much has changed from Friday when the PGA Tour’s season-opener was supposed to kick off. For the third day in a row, play was delayed, suspended, and eventually called at 12:12pm on Sunday.
The new (tentative) plan? To return on Monday morning and play 36 holes and 18 on Tuesday. The goal is to complete 54 holes — otherwise it’ll count as an “unofficial” event, meaning it won’t count as an “official” win and the champion won’t get the chance to defend his title in 2014, but it will reward “official FedExCup points/money/75% OWGR points. In other words, it would cause more harm to the already endangered venue for the event. Which would really suck. (continue reading…)
Scott Stallings weathering the extreme conditions
The 2013 PGA Tour season didn’t exactly start with a bang. Well, depending on how you see it, and actually, it technically hasn’t officially began. Usually–at least in the past two years I’ve covered the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua’s Plantation Course–it’s 80 degrees and sunny with beautiful vistas of the Pacific Ocean with the wind blowing around 10-15mph and gusts of maybe 20mph.
Not this year, unfortunately. At least not since January 1st when golf in Maui felt more like Scotland. (It was gorgeous last week. I played last Friday and there was virtually NO wind, which was strange, and the sun was almost too hot.)
24 of the 30-player field had teed off on Friday morning before play was suspended. Due to gusts up to 42 mph, sideways rain and balls blowing off greens, PGA Tour officials decided to not only cancel play but completely wipe out the scores and start anew on Saturday morning. That’s right — bizarre, huh? (continue reading…)
Classic Spence.
Spencer Levin doesn’t need to hear any lectures on the health risks when it comes to smoking cigarettes — Marlboro Reds, to be precise — and he’s well aware it strays from the squeaky-clean image of the PGA Tour brand. He’s not just a one or two smoke a round kind of guy, either. A pack would be more a closer estimate.
Judge him if you’d like (and I hate to break it to you, but a fair share of players use chewing tobacco — probably roughly 1/4 to 1/3), but as he reminded the media after shooting a three-under 69, matching Rickie Fowler and Vijay Singh for low round on Saturday: It’s legal and there are worse things he could be doing.
Tiger happy hanging with Freddie
There was an especially excited feeling in the air at the Memorial Tournament early Friday evening — the kind that only one player can stir up. Tiger Woods, of course. He birdied three of his first six holes to jump atop the ‘board with the leaders in the clubhouse, Spencer Levin and Scott Stallings. He looked in fine form and found the consistency he was struggling with in his last few starts. (continue reading…)
Phil playing to the crowd
When I showed up at TPC Scottsdale on Tuesday, I was greeted by my pal from the Thunderbirds (the secret society charity group that hosts the Phoenix Open) in a golf cart with another T-bird (door-to-door service! — like I’ve said, they don’t mess around). I barely had time to drop off my computer and check in the media center before I was whisked away for a tour of the relocated Greenskeeper, one of the rowdiest and drunkest party areas — you pay $3,100 for four badges to the Greenskeeper tent, where it’s open bar and complimentary food — at the “Greatest Show on Grass,” aka, the wildest lawn party masquerading as a pro golf tournament. (continue reading…)
Scott Stallings has never strolled across the plush, verdant fairways of Augusta National. He’s never had his hat blown off by the swirling winds of links golf at the Open Championship. Heck, he hasn’t even played a full season on the PGA Tour.
But Sunday at the Greenbrier Classic, Stallings soared to his first professional victory. (continue reading…)
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