"The guys (on the PGA Tour) wouldn't last a week doing what we do.”

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Tod Leonard, writing about the state of the LPGA Tour as the Samsung kicks off at Torrey Pines, notes this from Juli Inkster:

Through the troubles, the players forge on, doing their best to overcome the issues that are out of their control. Sirak of Golf World said they remain the most fan-, sponsor- and media-friendly athletes on the planet.

“When you look at the PGA Tour versus the LPGA, there's more youth interaction with the LPGA,” said Torrey Gane, the Samsung World Championship tournament director. “On the PGA Tour, they sign an autograph and keep walking. Out here, they look at the individual, make eye contact. They really interact with people and show their appreciation.”

Inkster has been a proud example of that for nearly three decades.

“It blows my mind how good we are,” Inkster said, “and how much we still have to work to get to where we're at. The guys (on the PGA Tour) wouldn't last a week doing what we do.”

Condi Joins Shoal Creek; Next Stop, ANGC Green Committee

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First, she'll be gnawing on cigars in the Shoal Creek lounge, going all 18 with the boys and telling fart jokes, Next think you know, Condoleeza Rice'll be up on the podium Wednesday of Masters week, clad in green, telling the assembled scribes that if we don't narrow the fairways and grow more rough the distance explosion smoking gun will come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
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You Realize...

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...this may be the best indictment yet of the FedEx Cup, courtesy of Gary Van Sickle on Twitter:

"Is our world-class city so inept we can't figure out how to protect endangered species at a golf course without having to either give away the land or eliminate golf there?"

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Nancy Wuerfel, "a fiscal analyst by profession," is on San Francisco's Park, Recreation and Open Space Advisory Committee. And yes, its acronym is PROSAC. Anyway, nice to see another common sense op-ed piece on the Sharp Park situation as major decisions are about to be made.

This was the most refreshing point, something I touched in my Golf World story and something that the extremists have been fudging the truth about for some time:

Claims that city golf courses lose money are just not true. I analyzed the financial information for the first six years of the city's Golf Fund. The Recreation and Park Department's accounting practices have created the appearance that Sharp Park golf course is losing money when it is not. These findings were submitted to the Recreation and Park Commission and the Recreation and Park Department.