"Muscle memory for golf isn't lost in Alzheimer's patients"

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Lisa M. Krieger files a story both uplifting (Alheimer patients enjoying golf) and depressing (dementia won't help you get rid of you deadly in-up-and-over move). Besides reporting on what researchers have found, she tells the story of Deep Cliff pro Gerry Benton who works with elders suffering from the various cruel diseases.
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Brace For Slew Of Glowing Northern Irish Golf Stories

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I'm not sure if the Belfast Telegraph should be, gulp, telegraphing the pending wave of rave reviews we'll be reading about all things Irish golf. But that's what they in revealing that "sixteen golf writers" (are there even that many left?) "have been in Northern Ireland this week to enjoy the fairways on which our trio of Major champions perfected their game."
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Pro-Bono Classic Returns To LPGA, No Word On Purse

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Thanks to Steven T. for this unbylined Arizona Republic story on the 2012 return of the LPGA's controversial RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup.

The ladies will have to play an extra round...perhaps this means they'll get paid this year?

The tournament will be held March 13-18 and will expand from 54 holes to 72.

This year's tournament, won by Karrie Webb, was noteworthy in that LPGA players agreed to donate the $1 million purse to charity. There was no immediate word whether that will occur again next year.

"We are delighted to be hosting the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort," said Steve Hart, general manager and area vice president for Marriott. "The event last year was terrific and we look forward to a long relationship with RR Donnelley and the LPGA."

TPC Summerlin's Short Par-4 15th, A Wobbly iPhone Video Analysis

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I've always been fascinated by this Bobby Weed-designed short par-4 at the TPC Summerlin and I had a chance to look closely at it while making a visit to the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open (starts Thursday on Golf Channel.)

I Tweeted some videos today with my analysis. The short but sweet conclusion: I need to play this one, but I love the attempt at something different, I just don't know how well the options work in today's game, where so many guys can reach the green with driver. (341 uphill yes, but higher altitude, hot weather means it plays shorter).

Anyway, here are the videos in order...

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5 (don't ask why it's smaller...technology is moody)

Catfight At Killeen Castle?

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Lots of fun stuff in the Pond Scrum this week from Huggan and Elling, but no better visual than this:

Huggan: I have no idea what went on in the locker room, but I do have it on good authority that Paula Creamer and Cristie Kerr had a bit of a ding-dong verbal joust late on Sunday night.

Creamer apparently felt that the lovely Cristie could have made more of an effort to play her match on Sunday, sore wrist or not.

Huggan: Of course, the way Paula played on Sunday, Cristie could have beaten her playing one-handed considering how Scotland's Catriona Matthew finished Creamer off.

Elling: Gee, you mean Paula wasn't won over by the sling that Kerr had on her arm later Sunday? Was no full-body cast available? Kerr is a princess and has always been. Not especially surprised by her inability or unwillingness to play.