Life Imitates Art: Tiger, Judge Smails Throw Clubs

My favorite scene in Caddyshack is when Ted Knight as Judge Smails throws his putter 500 feet after losing a bet to Rodney Dangerfield’s consonant-challenged Al Czervik. The club ends up buried in some old lady’s cranium, who Smails assures, “it slipped.”

(”It slipped!”)
Last Saturday at the Australian Masters, a scenario played out that was […]

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One Girl, Two Cups: The Putting Bra Has Arrived

From the people who gave us dolphin slaughter and the hay fever hat, here’s the latest invention from Japan: A bra that can be unfolded and used as a putting green. Finally, a way for you ladies to work on your short game when you can’t get out to the course. (May also be used […]

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Ready To Hag Hang Out With Daly At The CMAs?

CMA-bound John Daly beaming upon learning he’s guest-listed @ Ronnie Milsap’s legendary after-party at the Murfreesboro Ramada Limited:

Can’t blame her. Who can resist a man in his early 40s who already cuts a rugged, pre-Jed, Buddy Ebsenian figure?

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CNN: Your Lousy Golf Game Is Killing The Planet

What’s the most insidious pollution wracking Mother Earth these days? If you guessed fossil fuel exhaust, nuclear waste, or nasty cow farts, no, no, and maybe yes but probably no. The real answer? That drive you hooked into the next zip code on 14 last Sunday.

(And they’re killing the whales.)
Yes, if what CNN is saying […]

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Tiger Woods’ New Jupiter Island Mansion Says ‘Hi’

Tiger Woods’ new mansion - the one on the property he bought for almost $45 million a couple years ago - is rounding into shape quite nicely. Well, actually, that’s a bit of a judgment call, depending on your tastes in architecture. How about this? One part of his mansion - possibly the guest house […]

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These Goats Would Like To Play Through. Thanks

Great … something else for Charles Barkley to hit. A golf course in Canfield, Ohio, is going green and helping to “save the environment” by maintaining their courses entirely with goats. And in case you’ve never seen a goat driving a John Deere riding mower, I can tell you they’re very good.

Of course the goats […]

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Thanks To Big Bertha, Steve Phillips Can Do Both

Calloway has a new spot touting the Joy of … Golf:

Which gives you more pleasure?

Golf

Sex

Depends on the course

View Results

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Bama’s Ingram Says He Golfed a ‘69′ In 8th Grade

Could you have ever imagined Kim Jong Il coming up in a discussion about the race for the Heisman Trophy? (Hold up on Clausen for a second, let me finish …)

(Ingram claims he shot a 69 in 8th grade, still 35 shots shy of Kim)
Don Kausler Jr. of the BIRMINGHAM NEWS has a report […]

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A Rick Reilly Golf Movie To Heal A Troubled Nation

Rick Reilly has been knitting warm, comfortable sports columns for a generation now; material that has morphed into several books, television appearances, and even a film (he co-wrote “Leatherheads.”). I’ve always found his writing to be nourishing, if bland; a kind of chicken soup for the reader, Melba cracker on the side.

The worst thing about […]

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Anthony Kim: Winning In A John Daly Sort Of Way

Anthony Kim says that sightings of him coming home at 4 a.m. the morning of an important tournament round are like those of Bigfoot and an important Notre Dame football victory: total mythology. But the fact remains that several people say that they witnessed Kim getting back to the team hotel “sideways” at 4 in […]

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