Michael Phelps Wants To Have A Life...And Play Lots Of Golf

Rick Reilly files a super story on swimmer Michael Phelps' eagerness to have a life out of the pool, including a desire to attend the Masters and for a quest to play the Top 100. Now all he needs is a Golf Digest America's Best Peg Board and some invites.

 "I want to play all the great (golf) courses," says the 26-year-old Phelps, who is even taking lessons from Hank Haney. "(Bowman) gave me a poster with the 100 greatest courses in the world on it, and every time I play one, I put a little pin in it."

How many pins so far?

"Zero."

He wants to travel. He wants to stay out late and not worry about 5:30 a.m. endurance drills. He wants to see more of the world than the bottom of its pools.

"People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it."

By the looks of the photo with the story, he has a pretty solid impact position. Wipey, but solid. You know how it is for those Haney students.