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Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on February 11, 2010 at 6:22pm

cart path plus a chains requirement.

Comment by Steve on February 11, 2010 at 10:41am

Wow, looks like Friday will be cart path only. :)

Comment by David Carr on January 10, 2010 at 4:22pm

I used to play on days like today back in Charlotte. I was one
dimensional from '93 to '99 (golf 24/7). No more. Carolina Golf Club was my home away from home. CGC (1929) was a Ross Original but no more.

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on February 22, 2009 at 8:16am

Danny LEE baby!! WOW!!!!

This kid has shown up on the Amateur radar (www.scratchplayers.org) for quite some time... but wow. A win on the Euro tour! Impressive!!! I bet Fowler, Lovemark, and Chappell are just a bit impressed!! Lee is set to turn pro after the masters and is forgoing a $300,000.00 check for the win to ensure he can still play in the masters. I guess that kind of puts it in perspective what a golfer will do to play there.

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on February 17, 2009 at 6:58pm

http://www.haskinsaward.org

The Award based out of Columbus given to the "Outstanding Collegiate Golfer of the Year" - The Haskins Award

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on January 21, 2009 at 9:42am

Courtesy of some of my favorite golfing buddies:

In My Hand I Hold A Ball,
White And Dimpled, Rather Small.
Oh, How Bland It Does Appear,
This Harmless Looking Little Sphere.
By It's Size I Could Not Guess,
The Awesome Strength It Does Possess.
But Since I Fell Beneath Its Spell,
I've Wandered Through The Fires Of Hell.
My Life Has Not Been Quite The Same,
Since I Chose To Play This Stupid Game.
It Rules My Mind For Hours On End,
A Fortune It Has Made Me Spend.
It Has Made Me Yell, Curse And Cry,
I Hate Myself And Want To Die.
It Promises A Thing Called Par,
If I Can Hit It Straight And Far.
To Master Such A Tiny Ball,
Should Not Be Very Hard At All.
But My Desires The Ball Refuses,
And Does Exactly As It Chooses.
It Hooks And Slices, Dribbles And Dies,
And Even Disappears Before My Eyes.
Often It Will Have A Whim,
To Hit A Tree Or ! Take A Swim.
With Miles Of Grass On Which To Land,
It Finds A Tiny Patch Of Sand.
Then Has Me Offering Up My Soul,
If Only It Would Find The Hole.
It's Made Me Whimper Like A Pup,
And Swear That I Will Give It Up.
And Take To Drink To Ease My Sorrow,
But The Ball Knows .... I'll Be Back Tomorrow.

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on January 8, 2009 at 4:26am

Feherty and McCord are the funniest announcers in Golf. Feherty is Irish and still maintains a reasonable accent (although you can understand him quite well) which makes his quick wit comedy that much better! McCord is the guy with the handlebar mustache (and probably the most recognizable).

Feherty has been sober quite some time now... 3 maybe 6 years or so. He has also taken up exercise as a way to combat the demons - and unfortunately was hit twice by cars while riding his bike in the last 2 years. Both of them very serious accidents.

Any commentary from these two is just genius in my opinion - and when they are together (which is more rare these days) it's a complete laugh fest! It's like listening to 50's and 60's comedy centered around golf. Timing, wit, and charm. And professional too. they even get serious at the right times!!

I'm sure there are many who disagree with my fondness for them, but who cares.. I love 'em!

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on January 7, 2009 at 11:31am

David Feherty speech..


On the 14 years since CBS colleague Gary McCord was banned from the
Masters:


"They don't do comedy at the Masters. The Masters, for me, is like holding
onto a really big collection of gas for a week. It's like having my
buttocks surgically clenched at Augusta General Hospital on Wednesday, and
surgically unclenched on Monday on the way to Hilton Head."


On his decision to give up his playing career in favor of a microphone:


"When CBS came to me and asked me to do on-course commentary, I said, 'You know,
I'm only 37, I still have hopes of [playing] a little better.' So they told
me what they were going to pay me, and I said, 'You want to buy a set of
clubs?' "

On giving up alcohol:



"I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I
quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game,
where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge."

On McCord's recent revelation, at the annual JCC Sports Awards banquet in
Vancouver, that Tiger Woods' caddy Steve Williams and Feherty often try to
outdo one another on the course in the area of flatulence, Feherty said:
Tiger is no slouch himself: "He can lay 'em down like a crop duster."




On Gary Player's unsubstantiated suggestion last year about use of
performance-enhancing drugs in pro golf:



"Gary thinks he invented fitness because he used to do pushups on the airplane. He's just upset because you
can't win a major any more with a low, flat hook and a Napoleon complex."

On the poor life advice Michelle Wie's parents have given the teenage
phenom:

"She could be adopted by Britney Spears and be better off. I want my
16-year-old daughter to have an enormous phone bill, a case of the giggles
and to be pissed off at me for killing her first three boyfriends. I do not
want her out on Tour under that kind of pressure."

On Phil Mickelson:

"Phil is brilliant, but he's nuts. There's something not
quite right about that boy. Phil is watching a movie that only Phil can
see.
His mother told me, "Phil was so clumsy as a little boy, we had to put a
football helmet on him until he was four because he kept bumping into
things.' I told her, 'Mary, Mary, I'm a writer, you can't keep handing me
material like this.' So the next time I saw Phil I said, 'You didn't really
wear a football helmet in the house until you were four, did you?' He said,
'It was more like five.' "

On Tiger Woods:

The first time he ever watched Woods play, Feherty
examined the lie Tiger had in the trees, where he'd hit the ball into deep rough
alongside a large root, and said on-air that the only available play was to
wedge out sideways. Tiger promptly hit a towering 200-plus-yard, sweeping
slice with a 2-iron that rolled to within 12 feet of the flag. "I just
stood there watching him walk past," Feherty said, "and thinking, 'I don't know
what that is, but I know there weren't two of them on Noah's Ark."

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on January 6, 2009 at 5:51am

Mary I love it! Sometimes the super (man/woman) cape that comes along with a two martini lunch gets us in trouble doesn't it!!

The question I have is.... how did you ladies play after a couple of 'tinies and it being your first time? That had to have been a sight to see! It's hard enough to play this silly game sober!

Comment by Nick Nottleman, AWC on January 5, 2009 at 3:22pm

Thank you for the original post Bebe! I watched it twice, and I was still laughing pretty darn good the second time through!!!!

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