Stevie Still Wants To Have A Sitdown With Tiger

Paul Lewis of the New Zealand Herald talks to Stevie Williams about cutting back on his caddying schedule to spend more time with his cars.

And it seems that contrary to the post-Open Championship coverage of a Tiger-Stevie reconciliation because they shook hands on the last green, well…that's not enough for Stevie.

"I think Tiger and I need to sit down and have a conversation," Williams said. "That opportunity hasn't arisen yet, but that's something I'd like to do."

Price Slashed! Ailsa Craig Can Be Yours For Just $2.4 Million

Thanks to reader Tim for John Burns' NY Times story on the Marquess of Ailsa still trying to sell the famous Ailsa Craig just 10 miles off the coast of Turnberry, now for $2.4 million.

The 220 acres are the source "of the distinctive, water-resistant microgranite used to make most of the world’s curling stones" but also has no fresh water, electricity or any other great purpose other than to provide a backdrop for Open Championship television leaderboards.

Was A Kennedy Motorcade Lincoln Once Ben Hogan's?

There has been extensive coverage of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination and while the ties to golf are slim, there are still a couple of items worth checking out.

Art Spander, who has covered a little of everything including a whole bunch of golf, recalls his duties that day for Santa Monica's Evening Outlook.

And Bob Ray Sanders of the Star-Telegram attempts to figure out the mystery of the 1963 white Lincoln that proved to be President Kennedy's final safe ride in Fort Worth earlier that horrible day: it was a borrowed vehicle that may have once belonged to Ben Hogan.

Dallas resident Don Bressman, in charge of the pre-delivery inspection for Trinity Lincoln-Mercury dealership, explains how the car became part of history.

Bressman, 23 at the time, said he pulled a new Lincoln from the dealership’s stock, placed that car and the loaner vehicle on adjacent lifts and swapped the tires. When the agents returned they swarmed the car, using wands and probes to search underneath and inside to make sure it was safe before taking it away.

That was the last time Bressman saw it, he said. But he remembers hearing that when the vehicle was returned to Golightly, the sheet metal above the two front wheel wells had marks from the thumbscrews that had been used to fasten an American flag and one bearing the presidential seal.

Because of the president’s death, he said, Golightly never had the marks removed. He sold the car, which stayed in private hands for years.

The question I had was, why was a new 1963 Lincoln Continental on a used car lot? Barker, with the help of a friend, reminded me that the new Lincolns came out in September of the preceding year. And Bressman says his dealership every year gave a brand-new loaner car to Ben Hogan for his use.

Could this be the Hogan connection? And did the new car dealership divest of the car so quickly because it already had been driven for a year?

That mystery remains.

Video: Aces Are Wild! Stuart Manley Follows One With An 11

From an unbylined BBC report on Stuart Manley's third hole ace Saturday in the World Cup, which he followed by making 11 on the 4th.

And then there was the Mercedes behind the tee which the Welshman thought was his:

"I thought the car was mine, and with the crowd, all the hype, I was just buzzing. The adrenaline was pumping so much, I could have flown to the green.

"Then I found out about the car and go and have an 11. I kept asking my caddie: 'How many shots is that now?' I actually thought it was a 10 but I was not going to argue because my head was pretty fried.

"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that point, but you've just got to pick yourself up and get on with it."

Even with the 11 on his card, Manley posted a 72 and sits at 2-under, seven back of Jason Day.

The video courtesy of PGA Tour Entertainment:

Wraparound Mania: Live PGA Tour Final Round Draws 116,000

Son of the Bronx continues to post ratings for cable channels and while Golf Channel was up nicely again this week over last year, you have to wonder if they wouldn't be doing better just showing international golf, reality shows, Tin Cup re-airings and special programming instead of the ratings wet suit that is the PGA Tour.

The final round of the OHL Classic from Mayacoba, Mexico, with ResetCup points on the line, a Masters berth and PGA Tour immortality for winner Harris English, had 116,000 viewers for its Sunday final round. That put it 6th for the week, behind the European Tour's final round (.1, 127k viewers), a Monday movie airing, the Saturday telecast from Mayakoba and of course, the week's top show, Big Break XX: NFL. (A rerun of Big Break on Tuesday of the previous week's episode proved to be the 14th most watched show, drawing 86,000.)

The Australian Masters final round, airing on the bottom basement of Saturday night in America from 9:30-1:30 am ET drew 92,000 viewers despite minimal promotion, no pre-game show but admittedly, a far more attractive product with Royal Melbourne, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh and Matt Kuchar as the protagonists. The Thursday night telecast (Round 2, drew 99,000 viewers.

Video: Discussing Royal Melbourne On Morning Drive

I know most of you have taped this segment, relived it over and over again and bookmarked it, but just in case here is Morning Drive from November 21 with Gary Williams and Paige Mackenzie talking about the first, third and eleventh of the Royal Melbourne composite course in use for the World Cup this week.