Belly Button Brigade: Cheyenne Woods

Cheyenne Woods' belly button plays peek-a-boo-I-see-you during the first round of the Wegmans LPGA on June 25, 2009. Woods made her LPGA Tour debut in the tournament, playing as an amateur on a sponsor exemption. She is the niece of Tiger Woods. See more about Cheyenne Woods.

Deep Thought

Jeez, what a boring U.S. Open.

I'll Tell You Why

Watching the U.S. Open just now and a Titleist commercial comes on. Various and sundry Titleist tour staff members looking seriously into the camera and expressing their profound love of Titleist golf balls.

Adam Scott intones, "Why would I play anything else?"

Camilo Villegas intones, "Why would I play anything else?"

And so on.

Well, I'll tell you why you'd play something else: Because some other golf ball manufacturer comes along and offers you more money to play something else. That's why.

Man do I hate the combination of pro golfers and equipment contracts. Or not the combination, really, since the combination is completely natural and understandable. Celebrity endorsements sell; and celebrities want money. So more like hating commercials with the player paid to use Brand A telling us that he's playing Brand A because Brand A is so good, not because Brand A's contract offer was so good.

This week Player X swears by Equipment Y, but next week he swears by Equipment Z. And those "What's in the Bag" features haven't meant diddly squat in decades.

Please, don't ever base an equipment purchase on what the pros are playing. It's just meaningless.

John Daly's Pants

Ah, good ol' John Daly. His career hits the skids, he hits the changing room - and emerges 60 pounds lighter and wearing some very loud pants. Loudmouth pants, to be exact.

Above is what Daly wore in the second round of the Italian Open. Nicely accessorized, don't you think, by the beer gut and cigarette.

I never thought headlining a post "John Daly's Pants" could be a good thing, but in this case, I think it is.

See more pics of Daly's new wardrobe here.

I.K. Kim

Who's the hottest player on the LPGA Tour? Hmmmmm ... lots of good candidates. But today I'm feeling a little In-Kyung Kim-ish. Anybody with me?

Booty Call: Vicky Hurst

Paula Creamer may have some competition in the booty department. This is LPGA rookie Vicky Hurst in the first round of the Michelob Ultra.

Bring Da Fankhauser, Bring Da Noise

There's something you don't see every day on touring pros: tattoos. These tats belong to the LPGA's Mollie Fankhauser.

Keep Your Head Down

A hack golfer spends a day at a plush country club, playing golf and enjoying the luxury of a complimentary caddie. Being a hack golfer, he plays poorly all day. On about the 18th hole, he spots a lake off to the left of the fairway. He looks at the caddie and says, "I've played so poorly all day, I think I'm going to go drown myself in that lake."

The caddie looks back at him and says, "I don't think you could keep your head down that long."

Gratuitious Sophie Sandolo

Gratuitous Sophie Sandolo, displaying a little gratuitous semi-nudity. Never a bad thing. Unless the semi-nude person is, say, John Daly.

Dude, Keep Your Pants On

Here's something you don't see every day on the PGA Tour ... and thank God for that! Henrik Stenson stripped down to his tighty whitees to play a shot out of the mud, making sure he didn't get his golf clothes filthy from the splash. Folks who don't follow golf closely might think it's a joke that Henrik's caddie's name is Fanny, but it isn't. Henry and Fanny were at the WGC CA Championship.

If you enlarge the photo you'll notice that Henrik is wearing Bjorn Borg brand briefs.