“What am I going to tell him? Get some cleats for your flip flops?”

From Doug Ferguson's weekly notes, a nice early season quote of the year candidate:

The PGA Tour embarked on its “Sponsor Value Program” last week at the Sony Open, when 15 players not eligible for the pro-am met with sponsors and clients at breakfast, for clinics, just about anywhere.

Even a local driving range. That’s where Mark Calcavecchia wound up.

“The Ala Wai driving range at the most played course in the world,” Calcavecchia said.

Calcavecchia thinks the program is a good idea, although it apparently wasn’t the smoothest of starts. For one thing, he didn’t see any sponsors on the public course. He did meet a man with tattoos on every inch of his body, and three other “clients” in tank tops and sandals.

“What am I going to tell him? Get some cleats for your flip flops?” he said.