2010 Q-School Primer

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I always feel a little dirty peering in on Q-school scores. But now that it's no longer a largely private affair with Golf Channel starting coverage Saturday during round four, there's some stellar online coverage to correspond with a slew of fascinating storylines this week. You can spot several of them on the leaderboard, either in the form of big name former tour players or intriguing names such as Erik Compton, Ty Tryon and Brett Waldman.
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Tiger Now Answering Live Questions In Tweet Form

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I miss the old days when Tiger's year end press conference from the Sherwood cart barn featured longer, carefully worded but sometimes interesting answers to scribbler and local television reporter questions. Now fresh off a spontaneous Twitter Q&A session Tiger faced seemingly the same question nearly every time and he responded (appropriately?) in Tweet form several times.
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“That's still a work in progress with the PGA of America and the PGA Tour to try and secure an earlier date for the match."

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Nice spot by Mike Walker at golf.com who points out George O'Grady and Richard Hills' remarks about the next European Ryder Cup moving up to sometime in September, pending confirmation from the PGA Tour. Considering the PGA Tour hasn't announced at 2011 schedule yet, it would seem a bit premature to lock in 2014 when no TV deal has even been discussed yet.

European Ryder Cup director Richard Hills said that the date was still being negotiated with the PGA of America, but that the rain-soaked 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales, which took place in early October, was a factor in getting an earlier date.

“That's still a work in progress with the PGA of America and the PGA Tour to try and secure an earlier date for the match,” Hills said. “I think they all saw what happened, and the request is being listened to, but it is still a work-in-progress as TV schedules are agreed on that side of the pond.”

"The year 2010 will not be remembered for any particular playing accomplishment but rather for Dustin Johnson failing to realize he was sharing a bunker with dozens of spectators who had nowhere else to go on a depraved course that led mobs into hazards."

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I suspect that Frank Hannigan would just point us to his timelier-than-ever Golf Digest story after some of the rules-related groveling following Ian Poulter's unfortunate "lucky" coin incident Sunday.
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