I knuckleheaded this golf writer four years ago(2005), when he wrote the following-

SHOT OF THE YEAR

When Meg Mallon rolled in a six-foot par save at the 16th on Sunday, she halved the hole with Karen Stupples and went 2-up with two to play. That assured the American side a half point, which was enough to give them the 14 1/2 points needed to win the Solheim Cup.

How can someone forget Birdie Kim's bunker shot to win the 2005 U.S. Women's Open? About a month after I gave Gallagher my award, he commented at my blog-

Well, I don't know exactly how I stumbled upon this, but I did...and I gotta tell you, your beef is completely legitimate.

I got a little carried away with the Solheim Cup's importance, and probably overlooked one of the most impressive moments I've ever seen in women's golf.

Your post has me regretting that I filed my story without even a mention of Birdie's Bunker Blast (which is how I think our writer headlined his final recap).

Thanks for pointing it out. Now where do I accept my award?

Four years later, Gallagher has struck again.

Na Yeon Choi was the only player other than Shin and Ochoa to win more than once this season. Choi caught fire down the stretch, claiming her victories in September and November.

Anna Nordqvist also won twice last year. Only taking home the LPGA Championship and the LPGA Tour Championship. This is almost as bad an omission as his forgetting Birdie Kim in 2005. Nordqvist won a major and the very last event of the year.

There are a couple of other problems with what Gallagher wrote-

The finish echoed a similar scene from 2006, when Karrie Webb chipped in for an eagle at the 18th to force a playoff with Ochoa (who also eagled 18). Kerr won with a birdie on the first extra hole.

Last time I looked, Webb won the 2006 Kraft Nabisco. Webb didn't chip in either, she holed a wedge from the fairway or a little over 110 yards.

Last but not least-

TOURNAMENT OF THE YEAR - 'I can't even believe they've done this.'

On one exciting Sunday in late August, the United States won eight out of 12 available points in the singles matches to cruise past Europe and win the Solheim Cup by a 16-12 score.

Neither the Solheim or Ryder Cup is considered a tournament. They are biennial matches. No I wouldn't have had a problem with Gallagher calling the last Solheim Cup, the LPGA event of the year for 2009.

If Gerard Gallagher he picks up my page, he will be offered some remedial lessons in professional golf. He can sure use them.

I knuckleheaded this golf writer four years ago(2005), when he wrote the following-

SHOT OF THE YEAR

When Meg Mallon rolled in a six-foot par save at the 16th on Sunday, she halved the hole with Karen Stupples and went 2-up with two to play. That assured the American side a half point, which was enough to give them the 14 1/2 points needed to win the Solheim Cup.

How can someone forget Birdie Kim's bunker shot to win the 2005 U.S. Women's Open? About a month after I gave Gallagher my award, he commented at my blog-

Well, I don't know exactly how I stumbled upon this, but I did...and I gotta tell you, your beef is completely legitimate.

I got a little carried away with the Solheim Cup's importance, and probably overlooked one of the most impressive moments I've ever seen in women's golf.

Your post has me regretting that I filed my story without even a mention of Birdie's Bunker Blast (which is how I think our writer headlined his final recap).

Thanks for pointing it out. Now where do I accept my award?

Four years later, Gallagher has struck again.

Na Yeon Choi was the only player other than Shin and Ochoa to win more than once this season. Choi caught fire down the stretch, claiming her victories in September and November.

Anna Nordqvist also won twice last year. Only taking home the LPGA Championship and the LPGA Tour Championship. This is almost as bad an omission as his forgetting Birdie Kim in 2005. Nordqvist won a major and the very last event of the year.

There are a couple of other problems with what Gallagher wrote-

The finish echoed a similar scene from 2006, when Karrie Webb chipped in for an eagle at the 18th to force a playoff with Ochoa (who also eagled 18). Kerr won with a birdie on the first extra hole.

Last time I looked, Webb won the 2006 Kraft Nabisco. Webb didn't chip in either, she holed a wedge from the fairway or a little over 110 yards.

Last but not least-

TOURNAMENT OF THE YEAR - 'I can't even believe they've done this.'

On one exciting Sunday in late August, the United States won eight out of 12 available points in the singles matches to cruise past Europe and win the Solheim Cup by a 16-12 score.

Neither the Solheim or Ryder Cup is considered a tournament. They are biennial matches. No I wouldn't have had a problem with Gallagher calling the last Solheim Cup, the LPGA event of the year for 2009.

If Gerard Gallagher he picks up my page, he will be offered some remedial lessons in professional golf. He can sure use them.

Dan Le Batard of the Miami Herald sums up the last 36 hours of Tiger Woods news.

The news-gathering landscape has mutated so quickly and so absolutely, at once enhanced and contaminated by the immediacy of everything from texts to Twitter to TMZ, that America's most famous athlete this weekend went from suffering a serious injury in a car accident . . . to suffering a minor injury in a car accident . . . to being ``fine,'' according to his agent . . . to reportedly being unfaithful to his wife . . . to maybe having his face scratched by his angry wife . . . to being rescued by his helpful wife from his crashed car with a golf club . . . to having his car smashed up by his betrayed wife and her golf club . . . to not being any kind of ``fine'' at all.

Not all of that can be true, obviously, but who cares?

Truth is one of the many things that gets trampled today when boring facts can't keep up with the media's need to feed instantly and the public's appetite to be fed faster than that.

Actually sports celebrity news bores me. I blogged about the news of Woods accident but refrained on speculating about its cause.  That kind of restraint is not normal in either the news business or blogging now. I rather not make a fool out of myself by talking about 2nd or 3rd hand error prone news. 

If someone wants to make the case I'm a fool, there's over 4 years of blog posts out on the internet ready and waiting for them.

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He hit a fire hydrant near his Orlando Florida home early Friday morning. From the Orlando Sentinel-

Professional golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident early this morning, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

Woods, 33, pulled out of his driveway in the Isleworth community about 2:25 a.m. when he struck a fire hydrant, and then drove into a tree at his neighbor's property, FHP reported.

Alcohol is not related to the accident, FHP said.

Woods was transported to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee in serious condition, FHP said. No other information about his condition has been released.

A Health Central hospital employee said at 2:30 p.m. that Woods was not a patient. A hospital operator would not say if Woods had been treated and released.

Hippa prevents hospitals from giving out patient information. I'll update the post when more information is made available.

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