Best Sign The Coates Championship Is Big: Travolta's Headwear

Lost in this week's massive Waste Management Open shadow is the LPGA's season-opener featuring an uber-deep field and an intriguing Golden Ocala course filled with replica holes from Augusta, Troon and Muirfield to name a few.

(Randall Mell talks to Karrie Webb about the fun of having played most of the originals and now testing the take-offs.)

But if there was any doubt about the power of the Coates Championship's significance, GolfChannel.com's Jason Crook has uncovered it.

A gala was held Sunday night in advance of the LPGA season-opener and actor John Travolta along with wife Kelly Preston served as an honorary co-chairs for the invitation-only event. A $50,000 donation was presented to Travolta and Morgan Pressel's foundations, but as Crook notes, the real significance came in Travolta's decision to roll out one of his first-team rugs for the gala.

Granted, some may say it looks like a Pulp Fiction back-up toup that he found in the couch seams, but I'd say that's one of Travolta's finest toupees and a real compliment to the LPGA.