Romo, Schomo: Tiger-Tebow Pairing In The Works?
/Global Golf Post's Brian Hewitt says that's the word from a "highly placed source" at AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Luke On Kapalua Debacle: "Slow play is killing our sport"
/Jonathan Wall notes a nice mini-spurt of frustrated tweets from World No. 1 Luke Donald after watching the rude behavior of various leaders at Kapalua. Here are the tweets in reverse order:
Phil Signs Off On Butch's New Pupil
/Brian Wacker reports on the first day of Gary Woodland's life after Randy Smith fired the lad and it seems Butch Harmon got the "OK" of his prized pupils before adding Woodland to his stable.
Read More"If Miller and Faldo were a sit-com pairing, they would have been canceled after the second week – if they had made it out of pre-production."
/Not exactly a rave review from Martin Kaufman of the Nick Faldo-Johnny Miller experiment.
Read MoreSlow Pokes Creating Kapalua, BCS Clash!
/Doug Ferguson asked on Twitter this morning: "What time is the game? Because I'm not convinced the final round at Kapalua will finish by then."
TigerWoods.com Flash: PGA Tour Return At Pebble
/Mark Soltau with the exclusive and revealing quotes ("I have good memories at Pebble. It will be fun going back.")
Read MoreSabbo Unfashionably Late For Dreaded O'Hair Reunion
/Jim McCabe reports on Rory Sabbatini's two-shot penalty for arriving late to the first tee Saturday. He was paired with Sean O'Hair, the same player Rory bickered with at last year's Zurich Classic.
Read MoreThe Four-Day, Single Pro-Am Partner Event Not-Played-At-The-Classic-Club-Effect: Phil Returns To Desert
/Bones, get ready to remember a new pro-am partner's name every day! For Immediate Release:
Two-time event champion Phil Mickelson commits to play Humana Challenge
Immensely popular Southern California native and four-time major winner
has an enviable record in the Coachella Valley
LA QUINTA, Calif. – Phil Mickelson, a two-time winner of the Humana Challenge and the leading all-time money winner in the event, has committed to play in an event where he has enjoyed immense success -- the 2012 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation.
Set to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in May, Mickelson is the second Hall of Fame selection to enter the Humana Challenge field. Greg Norman, winner of two British Opens and captain of the International Team at the last two Presidents Cups, also committed to his first Humana Challenge since 1986.
“I’m honored to join President Clinton and the Clinton Foundation for the Humana Challenge,” Mickelson said. “I admire President Clinton and the charitable work of his Foundation, which helps millions of people around the world, and I applaud him for joining Humana in using the tournament to help promote health and wellness. Some of my best seasons have come after starting at this event and I’m really excited about coming back again.”
Stars From The Previous Century Aligning For Clinton Desert Initiative
/Still waiting for the big names to sign up for the Humana Challenge, as predicted expected when former President Bill Clinton signed up to help resuscitate the former Bob Hope Classic. (There's a fun Thomas Friedman interview with Clinton in the new Golf Digest, with some of the least interesting excerpts available here.)
Read MoreLucas Glover Claims The Annual Injured-At-Kapalua-Prize
/Geoff Ogilvy, unable to defend his crown after last year's cut finger that hindered his game for half a season, hands the commemorative prize to Glover, who was paddle boarding on the eve of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, reports Doug Ferguson.
Read MoreGary Woodland's Coach Leaves To Be Loyal To His Agent Son
/Brian Wacker explains that just a day after revealing his agent switch to Steiny, Gary Woodland is looking for a new instructor. That's because his six-year instructor Randy Smith is the proud father of Blake Smith, Woodland's former ten-percenter at Hambric Sports Management.
Read MoreJohnny On Faldo: "There is sort of like an older brother-younger brother feel to it."
/God bless 'em, Johnny Miller and Nick Faldo are doing their darndest to give us a reason to tune into the otherwise uninspired Hyundai Tournament of Mostly Non-WGC and Non-Major Champions.
FedExCup To Be Mired In Algorithm Hell For The Foreseeable Future
/Doug Ferguson reports that the Ponte Vedra's permutations pundits have been running the numbers and by golly, the beleaguered points system doesn't get any better no matter how many times they try to rejig things.
PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said even though FedEx Cup points will start being awarded this week at the Tournament of Champions, changes could be made at the next policy board meeting in March, though "I would say that's unlikely."
The formula has been working well for the most part. The reward for a strong regular season is a high seeding going into the playoffs, which translates to better odds of reaching the Tour Championship. And there's still plenty of volatility for a high finish in the playoff events, as Reavie showed last year and Laird did in 2010.
Points are worth five times as much in the playoffs. Votaw said tour officials looked at how the standings would be if points were only tripled, or quadrupled, and didn't see anything worth changing.
"Going down to four [times the points] doesn't change a whole lot. We don't think going down to three changes much," Votaw said. "There has to be some premium on funneling down to the playoffs. The whole question of volatility has been a vexing one from the start. But we think the last three years have been good."
Volatility was evident all the way to the end last year. Bill Haas narrowly got into the Tour Championship as the No. 25 seed, then won the $10 million bonus by winning the Tour Championship with most of the top players in the standings faltering.
