Did you hear the one about the golfer who in October placed a $10 bet at 100-to-1 odds on Louis Oosthuizen winning the 2012 Masters? Well folks, that was me, the same guy who on Sunday was crying more than Bubba Watson after watching that dramatic, nail-biting sudden death playoff. Here’s the rest of the story. In October, I was in Las Vegas for a rare ... Read more

For the second day in a row Jim Nantz had the most accurate statement of the Masters television broadcast. Nantz was promoting the late-night Master wrap-up show on CBS that would include one of the day's leaders joining him in Butler Cabin. Jason Dufner, we're not talking about him. Oh no he wasn't, nor were any of the other announcers for most of the broadcast. It was almost ... Read more

Wouldn’t it been refreshing if after his round on Friday Tiger Woods had said to ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi, “Before I comment on my round—which was pretty awful—let me first apologize for some of my language today and also for my behavior on the 16th tee. I lost my temper and kicked my club and that shouldn’t have happened. There’s no excuse for it; I’m sorry ... Read more

Well, the blabbering and dumb comments by television announcers commenced shortly after coverage of the 2012 Masters came on the air. According to Mike Tirico, there was an atmospheric anomaly Augusta, Ga. Thursday. He was talking, I'm assuming, about the predicted rain when he said, The weather has been holding off. I checked with a friend who is an amateur meteorologist and it turns out ... Read more

I participate in a year-long golf pool where seven of us try to select the winner of each week's PGA Tour event. You are only allowed to pick a player once the entire season. I have no idea if anyone has any sort of strategy other than pick the golfer you think is the hottest player in the world that week. Whatever the player you ... Read more

The Masters needs to make a change and it’s not about its membership. In fact, membership is not a Masters matter per se anyway; that’s a club matter of Augusta National. And as the media was repeatedly reminded by Chairman Billy Payne on Wednesday, that’s a topic “subject to the private deliberations of the members.” I think a female member will and should be admitted ... Read more

Complete pairings/start times for first two rounds of the 2012 Masters that begins Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club. The defending champion is Charl Schwartzel of South Africa. 7:40 a.m.: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player - honorary starters 7:50/10:57 a.m.: Craig Stadler, Brendan Steele, Tim Clark (South Africa) 8:01/11:09: Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain), Robert Garrigus, a-Randal Lewis 8:12/11:19: Larry Mize, Paul Lawrie (Britain), Anders Hansen (Denmark) 8:23/11:30: Ross Fisher ... Read more

The PGA Tour offered Peter Hanson of Sweden a Special Temporary Membership for the remainder of the 2012 season and he accepted, according to a press release from the tour. This is the second exemption granted in fewer than two weeks. Ryo Ishikawa of Japan was offered and accepted one on March 19. In three starts this season, Hanson earned $644,765, thanks to top-five finishes at ... Read more

Tiger Woods’ win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this past weekend showed that his game is back and that he will certainly get the one victory he needs to catch Jack Nicklaus. That’s right, one victory. For all the talk that about whether Woods will be able to win the four majors he needs to match Nicklaus’s total of 18, the fact that Tiger now ... Read more

There can be no doubt that Tiger Woods's victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational was a significant occurrence in the golf world. What it means for the future, no one knows. Well, except NBC golf announcer Dan Hicks. After Tiger hit his approach shot to the 18th green on Sunday, Hicks made bold predictions, not just about Tiger's golf game, but also about his life in ... Read more