Casey Martin, the disabled golfer who sued the PGA a few years ago for the right to ride a golf cart, failed to qualify for the PGA Tour at Q-School. He tied for 46th and missed out by 7 shots. Sounds like he’s calling it a career:
“I’ve pretty much made it clear that this would be my last Q-School. I’m not saying I’ll never compete again, but I don’t anticipate it being my main thing.”
Head over to GolfBlogger and read his commentary about this. It’s worth a read.
This is the final week of the PGA Tour season. The Champions Tour and the Nationwide Tour are already done for the year. The LPGA and European Tours still have some events and there are some unofficial PGA events between now and the 2006 season.
This week you can catch the PGA Tour TWICE due to the fact that the Southern Farm Bureau Classic is being played along with the Tour Championship. This is due to the tournament being rescheduled because of Hurricane Katrina. Live it up!
In the left sidebar here I’ve kept a “This Week On Tour” schedule going all year long. In that section I have had all the major tours listed with TV coverage as best as I could get it. I hope this feature has been useful to you over the past year. Please comment if you have found it useful. Since the season ends this week, I’m going to get a break from updating this feature until 2006 and won’t be updating any data there.
Robert Flournoy, a “self-anointed golf fanatic,” just launched Golf Home Connect this last weekend.
He was trying to find a home in a golf course community by using the web but ran into nothing useful to aid his search. So, being in this great country of opportunity, he started a web site to fill the niche he found.
Golf Home Connect was developed as a site to help avid golfers find golf communities around the US, Canada and Mexico.
Highlights:
• Golf community profiles
• News and articles about golf living
• Neighborhood information
Robert paid me a very nice compliment. He said I have “a finger on the golf world’s pulse.” Very nice.
So drop in and check out the site. Tell them mediaguru sent you.
It’s an exciting and yet sad part of the golf season this week:
The Tour Championship
The sad part is because this basically marks the end of the PGA season. There will be some “events” on TV between now and the end of the year, but nothing meaningful. What are us bloggers going to have to rant about? I’m sure we’ll find something…
The exciting part is this is our last chance to see the big guns of golf all compete against each other. The top 30 big guns/money winners to be exact.
Tiger has sewn up the money title for 2005 with $9,913,024. Vijay Singh is next at $7,733,503. Even with a win at The Tour Championship he won’t be able to catch Tiger.
Missing guns
Phil Mickelson has decided NOT to play in The Tour Championship this year. He didn’t give a specific reason other than it was a “personal, private decision” which he isn’t going to discuss.
Ernie Els is still recovering from his knee injury and will not be playing in TTC as well. So only three of the top five players in will be competing.
The Course
East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta Georgia is the venue.
Some interesting nuggets about East Lake:
1. The course opened on July 4, 1908.
2. The course was the home course of my all time favorite golfer: Bobby Jones.
3. Tim Bendelow was the original architect, but the amazing Donald Ross reworked the whole course in 1913. Reese Jones tweaked it a bit more in 1993.
4. The par 72 course measures 7,112 yards.
5. Vijay Singh has the course record: 63 in 1998 (par 70)
6. Preserving the traditions of golf, East Lake has NO golf carts. Walkers with caddies only. Excellent.
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