Allenby Almost Finds Real Greens; Chalmers Wins Playoff

Greg Chalmers won for the second time in Australia this year, adding to his Australian Open win with a playoff victory over Robert Allenby and Marcus Fraser.

Allenby, who hated the greens at The Lakes three weeks ago and couldn't putt the "real" greens at Royal Melbourne defended the state of his game after his opening round of the Australian PGA, as quoted in an unbylined FoxSports.com story.

If anyone knows what the final quote means, please feel free to translate.

While Allenby admitted that not winning an early match-up robbed him of some confidence, he said the end result could have been vastly different with a bit of luck.

He also admitted that the criticism of him had got under his skin.

"I guess everyone said I played poorly, but if you think about it, I played pretty good with Retief (Goosen) on the first day," he said.

"I hit a lot of great shots, but I didn't get the win.

"Everyone's making me feel like I'm playing s***."

Now where would they get that idea?! People!

Allenby said his failure to strike a blow at the Presidents Cup was not based solely on his form.
It was a team event, he said, and as such he was relying on his teammates to perform.

"Sometimes it's not you. Sometimes other people are hitting you in the shin," he said.

"I'm just sick of people saying I'm in a slump.

"Go get your own slump. This is mine."

Even better, Allenby blamed his teammates for his Presidents Cup points shutout. Mark Hayes reports:

He said Retief Goosen had missed several makeable birdie putts after "I hit it inside 10 feet a few times" in Thursday's foursomes.

He said Y.E. Yang had left him playing alone too many times in the closing nine of Friday's fourball matches.

And that Geoff Ogilvy had "hit me in the tree three times off the tee and I had to chip out three times" in Saturday's foursomes.

That's probably what prompted this Ogilvy tweet Sunday: