Golf News May 7th, 2008
Push resumes for Olympic golf
MIAMI - After a pair of false starts in the past 15 years, it appears golf is now aligned to make an Olympic push.
"I believe the time is right to include golf as an Olympic sport," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said in a recent memo to golf media, offering additional insight in a blog on the tour’s Web site.
Finchem’s stance can be seen as a jump start.
Course architect Pete Dye selected for World Golf Hall of Fame
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Pete Dye, the golf course architect who built his reputation on risk-reward shots at courses like TPC Sawgrass and the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, was selected Tuesday for the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Dye was selected in the Lifetime Achievement Category and will be inducted Nov. 10.
He will be the fourth person in the Hall of Fame whose primary occupation was a golf course architect, joining Donald Ross, Alister Mackenzie and Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Players championship offers major challenge
In May a golfer's thoughts turn to the summer ahead and, if they have trainspotter tendencies, the age-old question concerning the prestige and status of the Players championship.
The PGA tour, which runs the tournament and has its headquarters at TPC Sawgrass, where the event will tee off on Thursday, likes nothing better than journalists posing the question, "Is the Players golf's 'fifth' major?" It goes without saying, too, that it loves to read that the answer is yes. For one thing, the prestige that comes with major championship status rubs off on the organisation that runs the tournament (how else would the world have heard of an unpleasantly exclusive little gentleman's outfit in the back of beyond, Augusta?). Plus there is money to be made.
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There's a youthful resurgence presently underway on the PGA Tour
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods was waiting on the sixth hole at Southern Hills last year during a practice round at the PGA Championship when he walked over to the side of the tee box and asked a question no one saw coming.
"What do you think of Anthony Kim?"
Woods pays attention to more than trophies and his bank account, and there was something about the 22-year-old Californian that caught his eye. Kim has explosive skills rarely seen in his age bracket, along with emotions that fit the same description.
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Missing Woods does not distract players
Defending champion Phil Mickelson insists nobody is talking about Tiger Woods at The Players Championship.
The top 50 players in the world rankings automatically qualify for the event at Sawgrass, but Woods has pulled out because he's recovering from a knee operation.
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Ames shoots for Sawgrass sequel
It's great being back here at Sawgrass. So many wonderful memories.
I guess the only sad part is that my brother Robert isn't on the bag anymore. It meant so much to both of us two years ago, when we were here together and were able to share in the success of victory at The Players Championship.
It's funny, but one of the privileges of being champion at this event is a private family dining room for your use. And they personalize the room for the defending champion. So it'll be all Phil (Mickelson)'s stuff in there now.
