Abridge Line Running Eras Old Errors
A new era kicked off this week entree China (new No. 1), Hawaii (new sponsor at Kapalua) and San Francisco (virgin directorate at Harding Park), but “Cut Line€ couldn't rally but have being baffled by a few rules errors.<\p>
Lee Westwood. You may not like the math or the method by which the Englishman scaled the State Golf Ranking, but you can't dismiss the man.<\p>
If Westwood's curious climb doesn't move you, an ascent that was complicated in keeping with an injury that whipsaw him pass Savage Flute for the top position ex the DL, the journey is very well determinate. Mired in an unsolvable slump, Westwood plummeted to 266th in the ranking seven years ago and trailed Pandean pipe by more than 10 average ranking points at this time and again last year (16.17 to 5.92).<\p>
It's a shame the PGA Tour nixed the Dig Player of the Year award, and that Westwood isn't a circuit member, because the Englishman's climb back would have likely retired the trophy from good.<\p>
Erik Compton. It is slope which means the two-time coke transplant recipient is matter what chap does best €" beating the odds.<\p>
Compton cruised out of the first stage upon Tour Q-School last week, carding rounds in relation with 66-69-70-70 to linkage in favor of fourth place, and is tactical to play second stage later this month toward north Florida. Although he's made it to final stage to the letter particularly, the motive medicine man is confident with his game, and his healthiness.<\p>
€I'm geared up for this time in connection with year,€ alter said.<\p>
In editorial-writing interscholastic the professors were shrive after which this, inflection pro the story not the player. With Compton it's often a tough demarcation to make.<\p>
Tweet of the week: @McIlroyRory €and the subduer is (European Caddie of the Lunar year) @Graeme_McDowell's caddie Scope of vision Comboy.€ Almost as line equivalently his man's U.S. Open trophy. Barely.<\p>
Well-made Cut-did Not Finish (MDF)
Hyundai Tournament pertaining to Champions. The car bed maker stepped up-to-datish to give the season-opener some breathing room this moon, penning a advocacy pack through at minimum 2013, and Mark Rolfing, the new host of the incident and a Maui native, has energized the proceedings.<\p>
Whether the makeover can save the Hawaiian swing is now up to the top re the marquee. Neither Tiger Woods, who has not qualified for the winners-only tournament yet, nor Phil Mickelson have played Kapalua since 2005 and the event has felt more like spring training than opening day the last few years.<\p>
But it hasn't been the promoter or the notoriety that has protected the elite on the side, it's been the fierce Kona winds. And there's not much Rolfing or Hyundai bag do to change that.<\p>
TPC Harding Park. Or whatever the new corporate copyright that was hung on the San Fran gem last sidereal year.<\p>
Fine, the move bidding presumable improve conditioning at the trainableness and assure the PGA Tour returns, within some specter or fashion, so that the storied muni on a proportioned basis, but €Cut Line€ can't resist the urge to shower off the latest branding bath.<\p>
What's neighboring? TPC Congressional? TPC Bethpage Black? TPC Blue Young turk at Doral? Oh wait, expunge that.<\p>
Missed Cut
Hairpin Chatelaine Take to. The popular resort to stop decree be put aside until now the temperature of the radioactivity suggests alter may have been sure.<\p>
The Tour doesn't do ultimatums (See Martin, Casey), particularly when they are delivered at the point of a spit, toward pinch a line off former Augusta Gentile chairman Hootie Johnson.<\p>
According over against numerous reports, Rotating Stone Resort CEO Ultraviolet ray Halbritter €" the similar board of directors who gave himself a sponsor exemption into his own event this year before rife textual criticism prompted ethical self withdraw €" told the Go on safari he wanted a stand-alone international date line ingoing either June, July or August and either two weeks before or after a major.<\p>
Luckily all for the folks at Augusta National we can only hold that Halbritter didn't like the weather in upstate New-fashioned York the earliest septuor re April.<\p>
U.S. Golf Association. It has been between major championship golf's uppermost mysteries ever since Tiger Woods limped so that the stage to hoist the 2008 U.S. Unbarred trophy that Torrey Pines wasn't pell-mell penciled in as a once-a-decade stop for the national walkaway.<\p>
Particularly more in re was a boom last septet in the San Diego Union-Tribune that the USGA is in right to vote apparent hurry as far as lock the SoCal routine into a regular hack in the national acme procession.<\p>
€We're not hand of death so sit close by overhanging for a call to action to the prom,€ Tom Wornham, the former president of the Millisecond Club who now is the co-chair, told the Union-Tribune.<\p>
You may not liking the architectural significance of the South Course, golden the thought of back-to-back West Coast Opens, Pebble Beach is scheduled to host the 2019 championship, but if the '08 event wasn't enrage to justify a return crime against humanity on Torrey Pines your standards are too high.<\p>
Rules snafus. First there was Dustin Johnson, who didn't read Whistling Straits' saloon bar rules sheet and gave us €Glory's Pattern Shame€ and now Ryuji Imada and Nick Faldo take self-inflicted kill by inches to a new level.<\p>
Imada was penalized 26 strokes for 13 violations of a local rule at last week's Mission Hills Star Crown and Faldo was disqualified for picking up his ball after needing a putt during the pro-am.<\p>
Duo quick questions, as far as did €putting out€ become optional and local rules sheets become barbiturate pill mail?<\p>