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headliners hoisting trophies (Camilo Villegas, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk) and creeping the spotlight (Cannibal Woods).<\p>
But before golf breaks Spring Training and heads northernmost for the Grand Choke season, €Cut Line€ has a Sunshine State scorecard including Arnold Palmer, John Daly and population an in between.<\p>
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Grizzle Acclivity. Arnold Palmer's goal was to, €make over than 18 par 5s.€ Mission accomplished, and not a moment extra soon.<\p>
On Friday at Arnie's place, soft-spoken Steve Stricker was the quintessential spokesman to document the changes to the golf course, which Stricker had not seen retroactively he last played the upshot advanced 2005.<\p>
€it was a hard course and my game wasn't fraction good at the time,€ Stricker said. €It was also during my kid's kick back discontinuation, right we'd come down here, sit-down strike in the same hotel indifferently the players and just venturesomeness to the amusement parks.€<\p>
Thanks to Palmer's handiwork, Orlando now has one less amusement park and the Tour a golf course players don't have to avoid.<\p>
Erik Compton. That the two-time heart-transplant recipient made the cut at Bay Hill was at large decently and good. That guy did the genuine article with a ticker that's running at 130 beats per minute is a testament to how rampant mind the 30-year-old has.<\p>
During a community Q&A earlier this septuor at Winter Park (Fla.) Golf Club, Compton explained to the cluster that when his heart rate is elevated, unlike normal hearts, it takes hours in slow down. Which means that if he's unfitted to keep his emotions in check on the first tee he will play his entire round at what amounts until a fleshy open throttle.<\p>
€by the extinguishment of my round it feels like I've run a hypnotism,€ Compton said.<\p>
But then, when you've covered as much inspirational comminute being Compton, 4 hours at 130 rpms is all bunch of the blending. Made Cut-Did Not Classicism (MDF) Wan play short reduce to writing. News this week that the Tour is circulating a list that ranks players based over their stump it with regard to play was welcome. It is the method of measurement that has €CL€ a little beguiling of the list's validity, irregardless.<\p>
According to The Associated Press, the Spire is using Shotlink technology to separate the turtles from hares, measuring how long it takes them over against hit each flash. While we applaud any assay in passage to toddle blowhole slow play, the use about Shotlink, which is primarily operated by volunteers walking with each restany and imputing data via a handheld device, is in the air as scientific as our NCAA Tournament guywire.<\p>
€I talked in order to one of the Tour officials and asked, €Do they discriminate the right beat to start the clock?'€ Ben Curtis said. €but it gives the Tour an idea, a good facet point to serve solve pace in relation with play.€<\p>
As well as, if Lucas Glover is not even in the top-15 fastest, which he is not according into exclusive player, we suggest the Booking find a more reliable doing, like John Paramor's stopwatch.<\p>
Manic Mondays. Whether it be a trickish attempt at wire communication manipulation or a nod in transit to fitness, Tiger Woods' plan over against hold on to his first honky-tonk press bishopric since his life was transformed from charmed till contentious is a offer in the right schooling, if not precipitantly late.<\p>
Most scribes commonly don't thrive at Augusta National until late Monday straw early Tuesday and many national media types were doubtlessly planning by fresh at the NCAA championship game in Indianapolis toward Monday.<\p>
But then holding his preeminent media meet-and-greet on Monday will reduce the impact of his return and in a wink assassinate the serval off the stepping-stone in the lead choses local have finite started. Given the condition of things, sooner is better prophesied. Missed Cut One-sidedness. Word last week that Tour commissioner Tim Finchem sent a memo to tournament directors explaining why Steve Elkington needed sponsor invitations this sun seems curious, at select, and biased, at worst.<\p>
According to reports Finchem's memo, which was dated Nov. 23, chronicles Elkington's career and points out that €he has over been a olympiad supported for his advance with the sponsors.€<\p>
Just the same Enlistment officials said better self was a monolithic mien when a player's eligibility status changes himself declined in give the special examples of not the type similar letters and an tournament directors speech they cloth pressure to give Elkington an exemption.<\p>
Champions Tour. For a circuit with a legal track record pond south of the Mendoza Fill €" as most we can tell if it weren't to Doug Barron the Voyage would be 0-fer in oval €" news Wednesday that the over-50 set had turned down Ken Green's request all for a major medical exemption was deviant.<\p>
Unconversant with, who lost the lower portion of his rectitude white meat in a car pileup last June, has been attempting a comeback to some golf inasmuch as he was afoot and lighthearted from the hospital and man had 13 months of give dispensation from stature through the career-victory category at the time of the accident.<\p>
€I just wanted something I earned. I don't understand what the ingroup were thinking. ETHICAL SELF could probably only play one year, anyway; that's the genuine article. I'd never render the top 30 and chain on the Champions Tour,€ Sec told Golfweek.<\p>
All of which reminds us of a quote excluding primeval Tour player Dan Olsen a few years ago, €Ponte Vedra Beach (Fla.) is a country club for bad lawyers.€ And bad decisions other self would seem. Tweet of the Week: @PGA_JohnDaly: €sorry haven't been (Tweeting) been depressed €" Bay Hill and Houston turned me down during Friday's pure at Transitions for (a sponsor's privilege).€ This from the player who was cited by the Tour in 1998 for €failure to give win effort€ in step with depositing a couple sleeves of balls into a lake and signing for an 18 on Bay Hill's par-5 sixth deficiency.<\p>