Prior to the "great transgressions" admission, Woods hardly would qualify for this. The congressman is anxious to find himself befriended by Woods. Pandering to celebrities is disgusting - even more disgusting is a congressman pandering to a celebrity who is known to be very wealthy hoping for a large contribution or an endorsement. These Washington types really do know no shame.

From more on this story, check out this link on the Wall St. Journal website.

Tif Joh, past frequent poster here at Waggle Room and a two-time U. S. Women's Public Links Champion, won the five-round Duramed Futures Qualifying Tournament on Friday, November sixth. Joh earned a full exemption for the 2010 Duramed Tour season. Joh, who graduated in May, had a spectacular four years on the UCLA Golf team where she was UCLA's first four-time All-American in women's golf. Also, she was voted the 2007 PAC-10 Golfer of the year and in 2008 she took the PAC-10 title..

Should golf get the green light for the Rio olympics in 2016, where are they going to play?

There are only two courses in the city: Gavea Golf & Country Club and Itanhanga Golf Club.  Reportedly, neither is long enough to handle a professional-level major event.  Further, Rio's original bid did not contain plans for the construction of new golf courses.

Brazil's highest ranked golfer, Alexandre Rocha, holds down the 550th spot in the Official World Golf Rankings (Wall Street Journal).

Tiger Woods niece, Cheyenne Woods, playing as an amateur, made her LPGA debut at the Wegmans LPGA Tour event on Thursday by shooting a three-over 75.  Miss Woods is a 19-year old rising sophomore at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.  To date she has maintained a low profile, tending to her books and her golf. 

Among Wake Forest golfer alums are Arnold Palmer, Lanny Wadkins, Bill Haas and a number more. 

Hopefully the media will give measured coverage rather than going into their self-serving mode.

It shouldn't be surprising that the PGA Tour would file suit for breach of contract on the part of Ginn Resorts, which was announced today

This could easily be characterized as hitting a guy when he's down - I expect that has already be discussed and resolved in Ponte Vedra and they are already girded for the upcoming skewering. Listen for, "we really hated to do this, but business-is-business".

In the stress that permeates the high-risk resort real estate business that is almost entirely dependent on discretionary disposable income, Ginn certainly already has both a balance sheet and an income statement that would demonstrate their inablity to honor the contract.

The road to the final resolution will be an interesting journey. The PGA Tour will rightfully stress the importance of contract law and fairness to others who are honoring their contracts with the PGA Tour. Ginn will demonstrate an honest inability to pay due to outside influences beyond their control.

The PGA Tour could possibly accept a Ginn property as compensation.

The Associated Press (see Yahoo golf news) is carrying the story of Ginn dropping the LPGA and Champions Tour effective immediately.

The loss of the LPGA event with its  third most attractive purse, is highly damaging.

Ginn is suffering badly in their real estate business - they expressed their wish to be accepted back in golf sponsorship in the future when their particular economic situation can support partcipation.

More dominos can be expected to drop as the season goes forward.

On Monday, General Motors discontinued their marketing accord with Tiger Woods effective December 31, 2008.

GM was a primary sponsor of Woods for nine years.

It is reasonable to expect another primary sponsor will fill the void very shortly. GM's action wasn't unexpected given the economic situation in the automobile industry.

Pete Terns, a GM spokesman, said Buick will continue to sponsor the tournaments in both California and Michigan indefinitely.

Anyone need a slightly used Buick logo-ed golf bags formerly used by a significantly talented celebrity???.

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These critics forget their attacks on past Captains - but, as one said, "in the long run this is good for the game - but it sure hurts today".

Faldo, as expected, is now target practice. The harsh British press will have a field day drilling Faldo over-and-over. It's a game they enjoy and, without fail, they always over-do the attacks and revert to personal attacks.

The Brit press used to call him FOLDO when he led for three rounds then collapsed to blow the tournament..

Nick's ego will survive somehow..

In many golf writers' columns they bloviate about the "Pooh-Bahs of Washington Road", referring to the members, whom they regularly criticize and belittle, of the Augusta National Golf Club which is located on Washington Road -at least they got the location right.

Here's what they don't write about: Post-Masters tournament disbursements from the tournament's income which include generous checks to the PGA,, the Royal and Ancient, as well as to other golf oriented groups, First Tee, etc.

Locally, they have given $1,000,000 or more to the Community Foundation serving the Augusta area - this year it's a bit over the usual $1 million. A new touch is that each employee of the National will get $1,000 that the employee is encouaged to donate to a  well-deserving charity organization of their choice.

The Community Foundation supports the mission and needs of non-profits in the Central Savannah River area, which includes Augusta.

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