Golf Spelled Backwards

How big is the Woods name in golf? So big that it can lead news accounts about golfers committing to play a tournament - even when the Woods in question isn't Tiger. Like this, from GoldCoast.com.au : We may never get to see Tiger Woods strutting his stuff on the Gold Coast, but the city has secured the next best thing in terms of golfing royalty -- his niece Cheyenne. Cheyenne Woods will play the Australian Ladies Masters Feb. 1-3, and this article refers to her as a "headline act" even though she failed to secure exempt status on any tour for 2013. (Woods has conditional status on the Ladies European Tour.) Having the Woods name will always mean that Cheyenne will have opportunities other golfers at her level don't have; that she'll receive more attention than she (probably) deserves. But that cuts both way - she'll receive more criticism and scrutiny than she deserves, too. It's not her "fault" that she is Tiger Woods' niece, and she...

Hey, Kristie Smith, did you have a good Christmas? "Yes ... Yes! ... YES!!!" Spoilt girl!! Merry Christmas everyone🎄🎅 instagr.am/p/TpDbpOPcoU/ — Kristie Smith (@nikegolfchick) December 25, 2012 So just what are the Christmas gifts that have young Kristie Smith - an Australian pro with wins on the ALPG, Futures Tour, and Ladies European Tour - feeling so spoiled by her family? She gathered them into a group and shared the photo with her Twitter and Instagram followers: Hey, is that a ... vibrator? It sure is! And yet, Kristie shared this photo with the public - showed it off even - while noting that her Christmas haul made her feeled "spoilt." Good for her! May she and her new little friend achieve thousands of orgasms together!Not like it's something we don't all do ourselves. As that great poet Cyndi Lauper once put it: She bop, he bop, a-we bop, I bop, you bop, a-they bop What strikes me about this is the difference in attitudes about se...

Somewhere, Charles Barkley is saying, "thank you, Tyreke!" As in Tyreke Evans of the NBA, who might now have the worst celebrity golf swing: I'm suspicious. How can someone so athletic look so pathetic? Is this just a put-on? Surely he - or anyone - could do better than that. Right? Yes? No? For another contender for "worst celebrity golf swing," see our previous post, Yao Ming Can't Play Golf .

Here are some more photos of Rory McIlroy's new house, which he recently purchased for $9.5 million in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The house is in a small, gated community named Old Gate, and it backs up to the Intracoastal Waterway. Presumably, Rory - and his love, Caroline Wozniacki - will have a nice, big boat of some sort, probably a yacht, sitting soon in the water out back. Rory's house, by the way, is the one with the dark gray roof; the sort of rusty tan-colored roof next door is the neighbor's house. On the other side of Rory's new Florida house is, currently, an empty lot. If I was Rory, I'd buy that empty lot myself to prevent anyone moving in next door. Because, looking at these photos makes it clear: This home doesn't really come with much in the way of seclusion or privacy. Privacy from riff-raff like you and me, sure; privacy from rich riff-raff? Not so much. I'm sure the home is absolutely lovely indoors; it has six bedrooms and...

Get that mother******* visor off your mother******* head! That's the message contained in Kangol's new Samuel L. Jackson collection of golf hats and caps. And Samuel L. Jackson is the coolest golfer on the planet, so are you going to argue? Jackson "worked closely with Kangol's design team to personally select each of the heritage shapes and fabrics within the collection," the company states . And continues: "While the Kangol Golf by Samuel L. Jackson collection offers nods to Kangol's history, it also incorporates ultra-modern performance treatments. The refined Heritage styles feature P2i's revolutionary, liquid-repellent ion-mask technology, which provides an undetectable coating, causing liquids to bead up and roll off the hats. "The range of hats incorporates Samuel L. Jackson's personal touches through use of his favorite colors, purple and yellow. The SLJ Jacquard print on the P2i Golf Spitfire was inspired by a vintage ha...

Hey, that's what its makers claim about the MagneCaddy! They wouldn't just make up a statement like that, right? So let's check out this invention so stupendously awesome that it "may be" better than the guttie, the Haskell ball, dimples, steel shafts, graphite shafts, metal woods, perimeter weighting, cast irons, the sand wedge and all the rest: MagneCaddy may be the greatest invention in golf history! Huh. I think they're overselling it. What do you think? I can see something like this coming in handy for some golfers - older golfers, golfers with back pain. You screw a powerful magnet into the butt end of the grip of one of your clubs - putter, I'll guess - and then you can pick up other clubs on the ground. How many clubs do you leave laying on the ground during a round of golf? Enough to pay $24.99 for the MagneCaddy? As I said, I can see it being useful for some golfers - but is it more useful than other grip-end attachments you can buy tha...

What I don't like about this Everybody Loves Raymond scene is that ridiculous phony golf set. But there are several things I do love about this scene: Patricia Heaton is hot anyway (if you're into MILFs). But this scene accurately shows just how hot a cute girl is when she puts on a golf outfit. And how smokin' hot she becomes once she plays golf in that outfit. Watch Ray after Debra tees off: He is suddenly consumed by lust for his wife. We've all been there, right? Ah, but couples and golf don't always mix, do they? And this scene shows us that side of the equation, too. Golf can create stress, and stress can cause curtness on the course - especially when one golfer is good and the other isn't. We've all been there, right?

There's nothing secretive, of course, about the need for many golf courses in places with warm summers by cool winters to overseed during winter months, in order to switch to a winter grass as their bermudagrass goes dormant. (If you don't understand why overseeding takes place, here's a good primer from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America). What I don't understand is why some golf courses are so secretive about their overseeding schedules. You know the ones: you call for a tee time, they don't say, "hey, we just overseeded"; you show up and pay, they don't say, "hey, we just overseeded"; you reach the first green before you realize, "hey, they just overseeded!" I got an email recently from a local course that I play often, announcing that they have completed their overseeding and, boy, are the greens in great shape! Funny, I don't recall getting an email from them before they started overseeding, saying...

Loudmouth Golf Apparel burst on the scene back around 2004, 2005, with its wild, wacky, eye-hurting, vision-blurring golf apparel. Golfers had spent decades trying to overcome the lingering stigma caused by those horrible 1970s golf fashions, and here was a company making clothes even uglier than those 1970s duds. That was the joke, of course. And a funny thing happened: Loudmouth caught on and grew, eventually signed John Daly and other tour pros, started showing up on the pro tours, and became kinda cool. And you know what happens when something because cool: Others start copying it. Royal & Awesome is the name of another apparel company that is turning out wild, wacky, crazy golf clothes. Here are a few pieces: See royalandawesome.com for more. Royal & Awesome makes men's and women's bottoms, plus flat caps and belts.

Hey, Bode Miller, you could put an eye out with that thing! Bode Miller is the onetime American Olympic skiing champ, still a skiing icon in the U.S. His wife is Morgan Miller (formerly Morgan Beck), a professional volleyball player and model. Our story begins innocently enough, with this jocular tweet by Bode: I played my first round of golf lefthanded yesterday.It was pretty amazing.Los of terrible shots for my wife to laugh at. — Bode Miller (@MillerBode) December 11, 2012 But soon, Bode's golfing "exploits" with his lovely missus took a dark turn: First major golfing catastrophy. :-( details soon,hospital now. — Bode Miller (@MillerBode) December 12, 2012 Hospital? Oh, no! What happened? Hit wife w golfball. #worstfeelingever — Bode Miller (@MillerBode) December 12, 2012 Yikes! "Worst feeling ever." Yeah, well, imagine how your wife feels! I'm not feeling so hot. Line drive to the face today with a golf ball from my darling husband.I st...