The LPGA signed a new sponsor recently and created the Sybase Match Play Championship to be held in New York at Hamilton Farm Golf Club. The event will be held May 20-23 and invite the the top 64 LPGA Tour professionals. It's good to see Sybase step up and become a sponsor again. Sybase was a sponsor for another event since 2001. The HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship was held at Hamilton Farm in 2005 and 2006. Should be a good event. I will be on the lookout for that … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2010
Three Questions With Phil
This week Phil Mickelson will be making his PGA Tour debut playing at the Farmers Insurance Open at the great Torrey Pines. Phil met with the media today and granted me a quick one-on-one interview after he fulfilled all his other press duties. I am hoping to be landing a lot of these interviews during the 2010 PGA Tour so I hope you come back to check them all out. front9back9: Hey Phil. You are looking trim and fit. How to you feel physically? Phil: I feel great. I stopped eating … [Read more...]
Horrible Week in Fantasy Golf
I just had a horrible week in fantasy golf. I lost 16 positions and dropped to #38 for the week in the Fans of Devil Ball Yahoo fantasy league. My two "A Players" both missed the cut. Thanks Justin Leonard and Scott Verplank. Charles Howell III and Pat Perez got me solid points for the week and Mike Weir, my "C Player" added 60 points. I added a whopping 158 points for the Winter part of the season. This week at the Farmers, I opted to not go with Phil just in case he is just a bit … [Read more...]
PGA Tour Facing a Possible Decision to Save Itself in the Future
I read an interesting article today over at Devil Ball Golf that made me start thinking about the future of the PGA Tour and seriously brought to mind what could happen down the road. The article at Devil Ball Golf referenced an article by Tim Rosanforte, the great golf writer for Golf Digest and the on air "insider" for PGA Tour broadcasts, saying we could be getting close to the PGA Tour invoking the 1-in-4 rule meaning members of the PGA Tour would have to play every tournament on tour every … [Read more...]
Bill Haas Wins the Bob Hope
Bill Haas pulled out his first PGA Tour victory today in the final Round of the Bob Hope Classic. A birdie on the 18th hole gave him a one shot victory over Bubba Watson, Tim Clark, and Matt Kuchar. Good for Bill Hass but DAMMIT!! I wanted to see Bubba Watson take the victory. Oh well. Bubba will get his first victory sometime and I hope it's sooner than later. This year seemed to not be as big of a circus as years past. When you have to play five rounds of golf for the week and top … [Read more...]
Ryan Palmer Wins Sony Open
Sitting here watching the end of the Sony Open and Ryan Palmer has just won for his third time on the PGA Tour. Good win for a fellow Dallas Cowboys fan and native Texan. Robert Allenby had a good round going but petered out at the end while it seemed Palmer just hit it close on every hole. I wsa rooting for Stricker but just because it would have gotten me good points in my fantasy league. Retief Goosen was hot today shooting a 62 to get a fourth place finish. Now the two opening … [Read more...]
Yahoo Fantasy Golf Week 1
For the last 6 or 7 years I guess, I have always played fantasy football and baseball. But this year will be my first year for fantasy golf. I joined another golf blog's fantasy group, Devil Ball Golf, and hope to maybe make my mark in this group and prove I know my golf. The first week, I scored a total of 208. In this group that puts you tied for 40th place. The winner scored 237 for week 1. Week 2 will be different. My starting lineup for day one consists of Zach Johnson, Rory … [Read more...]
Hello?? Mom, Dad…. Can I Borrow $183 Million??
The famed Four Seasons Resort and Club outside Dallas is facing foreclosue. Yes the same site that hosts the ever popular HP Byron Nelson Championship each year is headed to auction February 2nd if the bank and the owners, BentleyForbes, cannot work out a deal to restructure the debt. What I cannot confirm or seem to find is if BentleyForbes actually owns the golf course since it is a TPC course. The article I read on Yahoo Sports states the entire 400 acre luxury resort is in … [Read more...]
Interesting Tiger Woods Development
Sports by Brooks reported yesterday via TigerWoodsIsGod.com, the PGA Tour has announced Tiger Woods will NOT be the host of his annual tournament in the DC area. The AT&T National is a tournament benefiting The Tiger Woods Foundation. The tournament will still give the proceeds to the foundation, but only because of contract agreement running through 2014. This is huge. It is so so interesting to me that Golf.com, ESPN.com, CBSSports.com, or any other huge sports site is not reporting … [Read more...]