Will Steve Elling please pick up the blue courtesy phone
The CBSSports.com writer whines about the LPGA Tour again. The scheduling of these LPGA-sanctioned events continues to baffle one and all. Why have this event the same week as the PGA Tour's bazillion-dollar finale? With the choice between watching the...
Will Steve Elling please pick up the blue courtesy phone
The CBSSports.com writer whines about the LPGA Tour again. The scheduling of these LPGA-sanctioned events continues to baffle one and all. Why have this event the same week as the PGA Tour's bazillion-dollar finale? With the choice between watching the...
Will Shane Bacon please pick up the red courtesy phone
Here's some very superficial golf analysis from one of the contributors at Devil Ball Golf- The PGA Championship is this week, and I think most would agree that this is the least exciting major of the season. It doesn't have the sanctity of the Masters...
NBC’s idiotic golf coverage or where in the world is YE Yang?
Rory McIlroy has a 10-shot lead at the moment in the 2011 U.S. Open. South Korean YE Yang is tied for second. NBC, who is televising this year's U.S. Open, acts like Yang isn't even playing in the tournament.On the 3rd hole we see Yang's tee shot but n...
NBC’s idiotic golf coverage or where in the world is YE Yang?
Rory McIlroy has a 10-shot lead at the moment in the 2011 U.S. Open. South Korean YE Yang is tied for second. NBC, who is televising this year's U.S. Open, acts like Yang isn't even playing in the tournament.On the 3rd hole we see Yang's tee shot but n...
Masters Sunday–Or how many mistakes can CBS make?
The broadcast isn't 25 minutes old and CBS has already misreported-K.J. Choi has twice finished 4th in The Masters. No, he finished 3rd in 2004 and 4th in 2010.That Gary Player came from 8 shots back in 1978. No he came from 7.On the 13th hole, Charli...
Monday Morning Fog or Let’s Roll the Tape–Why the Honda Classic Was on Tape Delay
Yesterday's PGA Tour stop in Palm Beach Gardens was over a little over 90 minutes before the NBC telecast ended. A blogger or two had made note of it.Here's why it's like that. It is called Eastern Standard Time. Sunset came last night at 6:25 p.m. If ...
LPGA to conduct cheating inquiry
Steve Elling at CBS Sports has more on the incident at the CN Canadian Open which I wrote about yesterday.Initially, the LPGA seemed satisfied with the player actions and sanctions."No one with the LPGA was privy to any discussions between the player...
Did LPGA Golfers Shi Hyun Ahn and Il Mi Chung cheat at the CN Canadian Open?
LPGA Blogger and Caddie Larry Smich wrote the following- Finally, caught in the act! All this time, I’ve been detailing cheating by the Koreans and been called a racist and more for my observations. Even been taken to the woodshed by the head honcho....
CN Canadian Women’s Open on Tape Delay?
The broadcast is supposed to be live. Then why are scores at LPGA.com ahead of the broadcast. When Jiyai Shin birdied the 13th hole, LPGA had the result several minutes before the Golf Channel broadcast did.On the 12th hole they had Shin making bogey b...
LPGA Tour to add Taiwan tour stop in 2011
This news isn’t very surprisingly in light of these facts1- Yani Tseng is at present holder of two of the tour’s major championships and ranked as one of the top five rated players in the world. Tseng is from Taiwan.and2- The increasing popularity ...
Women’s British Open Sunday: Can Yani Tseng Win Her Third Major?
Call this the semi-live blogging post. I'm not going to comment on every shot, but give the highlights, do some commentary, and of course an occasional sarcastic comment or two. Would you expect anything less from a person who's given out over 1,000 kn...
