SB Nation User Blog: rcrusoe

Tiger's Niece, Cheyenne Woods, Shoots 75 in LPGA Debut

rcrusoe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:21:19 -0000

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.

PGA Tour sues Ginn

rcrusoe — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:56:16 -0000

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.

Ginn drops out

rcrusoe — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:11:53 -0000

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.

General Motors (Buick) and Tiger Woods

rcrusoe — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:46:57 -0000

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???.

Meanwhile, back in Britian...

rcrusoe — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:22:54 -0000

"http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080922/sports/golf_ryder_faldo_critics"

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..

Big-time columnists ignore this Masters news

rcrusoe — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:36:33 -0000

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.

Speaking about collegiate women's golf...

rcrusoe — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:41:45 -0000

Way back when, I was a college classmate with Marlene Stewart - a very polite and talented Canadian golfer tucked away in Winter Park, Florida where the weather was dramatically better than Cereal, Alberta, Canada.

Marlene was a quiet , efficient destroyer on the golf course. Women's collegiate golf was active but hardly as prominent as it is today but there were some strong players. Marlene won everything in sight - - - and continued after college.

1953 - winner of British Ladies Amateur (Marlene was 19)

She won 11 Canadian Ladies Amateurs.

1956 - winner of U. S. Women's Amateur

1963 - winner of Australian Women's Amateur

When she was 69 she won her third U. S. Women's Senior Amateur

2004 - Inducted into the World Golf Hall ol Fame, the first Canadian so honored.

Marlene was/is five-feet tall and back then probably weighed 115 pounds carrying two bags of practice balls.

Recently, the book, "A Disorderly Compendium of Golf"

(ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-4084-9) had a one-page article on Marlene carrying the above data.

Tiffany Joh

rcrusoe — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:43:28 -0000

Ryan Herrington has a first-class two-page spread in GolfWorld, May 9, 2008, on Tif, including a half-page photo (first page) and about one-quarter page photo on page two.

Her run-up to becoming successful is quite interesting as well as bits about her humility, sense of humor and self-deprecation.

Congratulations to a hard-working, very deservingly successful young lady.

Pre-college girl's prep for golf scholarships

rcrusoe — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:36:16 -0000

The Wall Street Journal of Saturday, April 5, 2008 in the Weekend Journal section has an interesting article about up-and-coming college-bound girls who might be the challengers in a few years.

If you are interested in reading this article please respond and we'll work out an e-mail arrangement wherein I can send it to you.

The numbers for just last week's play

rcrusoe — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:52:27 -0000

One sometimes wonders how much organized tournament golf goes on. This, from Golf Investor.com, presents some numbers for last week:

Interesting Note: This past week 1,289 players played 3,331 rounds in 1,847 OVER par (240,159 strokes; 72.10 average per round) in 11 tournaments which distributed $11,426,148 in winnings (averages: $8,864 per player; $3,430 per round; $48 per stroke).

Source: Golf Investor.com