Medinah
Medinah #17
RYDER CUP 2014 - Gleneagles, Scotland
Final FedEx Standings after WEEK #4:
Final Standings after Week #24:
 Open Letter from the GolfGuruGuys to Diana Nyad, who failed to swim from Key West to Cuba for the 4th time. Please stop! You didn't make it in 1978, you didn't make it twice last year & you're not going to make it now - even with your 5-boat escort & electronic shark deterrent equipment. We just don't care & think your failed attempts to complete this swim are stupid. You always get swept off course by the gulf stream, get bitten by squids & jelly fish, suffer from exhaustion, get all swollen up & quit before getting even 1/2-way there. If you had put all this effort into golf, instead of nightmare swimming failures, you'd be appearing in the Belly Gallery - like Natalie Gulbis!    Kiawah #4  Kiawah #16  Year: 1916 Where: Siwanoy Country Club, Bronxville, N.Y. After qualifying through sectional tournaments, 32 players were in the field for the inaugural PGA Championship in 1916. Jim Barnes, a former caddie and a club-maker's apprentice from Lelant, Cornwall, England, defeated Jock Hutchinson in the 36-hole final, 1-up. Barnes also won the second PGA Championship in 1919 (the tournament was not played in 1917-18 due to World War I). |  Crooked Stick #6. 'I can say this with no degree of modesty, I've been working on this course for 40 years, 50 years," Dye said last week by phone from that house off the fairway in Carmel, Ind., north of Indianapolis. "But there's still 14 greens that are the same when I came in here." Dye was an upstart architect in Indianapolis in 1967 when Crooked Stick opened, carved out of a cornfield after three years of stop-and-start building as club finances fluctuated. It was just his third design, after Indianapolis' Maple Creek Golf Club (still open as a public course on the city's east side) and Radrick Farms at the University of Michigan.  Bethpage Black  Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, NC. Original architect - Donald Ross (1926) Course remodel - Kris Spence (2007) 7,130 yds. Par 70. Course Record = 61 by Petterson, Na & Atwal. Sam Snead has won this tournament eight times, a PGA record for winning the same event. “The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.” -Sam Snead-  Greensboro Five rules for men to follow for a happy life: 1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home, cooks from time to time, cleans up and is willing to fulfill her role without undue complaining. 2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh. 3. It's important to have a woman whom you can trust and who doesn't lie to you. 4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed and who likes to be with you. 5. Finally, it's very, very important that these four women do not know each other. Sincerely, Tiger Woods    PGA Wanamaker Trophy. Kiawah - "If there's nae wind, it's nae golf." (Ancient Scottish Golf Proverb)  **********************Jamie Farr LPGA Classic - Highland Meadows, Sylvania, Ohio. What golfer won this event with a record-setting low 4-round-total & in what year?  Jamie Farr gets a hug from Morgan Pressel.  *************************Morgan Pressel just misses. Where was she born & what sports figure from Michigan is she related to? |
Firestone #2
Firestone South
Original architect: Bert Wray (1928)
Course remodel: Robert Trent Jones (1960)
Noted for its length, the par-70, 7,360-yard South Course includes a series of intimidating, long par 4 holes and one of the longest par 5s anywhere, with the 16th hole playing to 667 yards. Course Record: 61 - Olazabal/1990, Woods/2000.
Original architect: Bert Wray (1928)
Course remodel: Robert Trent Jones (1960)
Noted for its length, the par-70, 7,360-yard South Course includes a series of intimidating, long par 4 holes and one of the longest par 5s anywhere, with the 16th hole playing to 667 yards. Course Record: 61 - Olazabal/1990, Woods/2000.
  Royal Lytham St Anne's hole #1 - a par 3!  Hole #4 - par 4. 206 bunkers on this course . . .
  Shoelaces . . .  ***************Serena Williams - Women's Wimbledon Champion. How old is she & how many times has she won at Wimbledon? |   Claret Jug  Hole #7 - par 5.    John Deere fans celebrate after Zach Johnson's victory. |
| Tecumseh Boy's Golf Team Tecumseh finished first at Friday's Division 2 regional tournament at Eldorado Golf Course. The Indians advanced to the state meet next Friday and Saturday at Katke Golf Course. The Indians will compete in the state finals for the third straight season and look to improve on last year's fourth-place finish. Bobby Thomas was the medalist with his 2-under-par 70. Joe Forest was fourth with a 74. Collin Smith was seventh with his 76, Hunter Cadmus was 40th with an 84, while Zach Horn was 43rd with an 86. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." |
CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL: #1 Kentucky
Wildcats VS #2 Kansas Jayhawks - Monday, April 2nd - New Orleans 8 pm
Ohio State Buckeyes
62
FINAL
Kansas Jayhawks
64
Louisville Cardinals
61
FINAL
Kentucky Wildcats
69
Kentucky 67 - Kansas 59
************Gangsta' Granholm?
http://www.michigan.gov/lottery
Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:52am EDT
(Reuters) - A Virginia woman found out on April 7 she won $1 million in a lottery drawing. And then she won again.
Virginia Fike of Berryville, Virginia, had the good luck to buy not one but two lottery tickets from a truck stop that both turned out to be $1 million winners, matching five of the six Powerball numbers. Lottery officials presented her with a $2 million check on Friday.
(Reuters) - A Virginia woman found out on April 7 she won $1 million in a lottery drawing. And then she won again.
Virginia Fike of Berryville, Virginia, had the good luck to buy not one but two lottery tickets from a truck stop that both turned out to be $1 million winners, matching five of the six Powerball numbers. Lottery officials presented her with a $2 million check on Friday.
*******
Jerry: "Do women know about shrinkage?"
Elaine: "What do you mean, like
laundry?"
Jerry: "No..."
"Like when a man goes
swimming... Afterwards..."
Elaine: "It shrinks?"
George: "Like a frightened turtle."
Elaine: "Why does it shrink?"
Jerry: "It just does."
Elaine: "I don't know how you guys walk
around with those things."
- George, Elaine and Jerry,
in "The Hamptons
Jerry: "Do women know about shrinkage?"
Elaine: "What do you mean, like
laundry?"
Jerry: "No..."
"Like when a man goes
swimming... Afterwards..."
Elaine: "It shrinks?"
George: "Like a frightened turtle."
Elaine: "Why does it shrink?"
Jerry: "It just does."
Elaine: "I don't know how you guys walk
around with those things."
- George, Elaine and Jerry,
in "The Hamptons
Greenbrier "Old White" Course, White Sulphur Springs, WVA - #15 par 3. Course opened in 1914 with redesign by the PGA 2011-12 for continuing tournament play. Course record (before redesign) Stuart Appleby: 59 in 2010.
11th hole at Congressional CC.
Course record: 62
Player: Anthony Kim, Hunter Mahan
Year: 2009
Player: Anthony Kim, Hunter Mahan
Year: 2009
Congressional Country Club was established in 1924. A group of legislators met in 1921 and decided the best way to break down the barrier between them and the country was through the formation of a country club, and to invite as comembers, professional businessmen from around the country. Some of the original founding members include Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, Harvey S. Firestone,
William C. Carnegie, William Randolph Hearst and Walter P. Chrysler.
William C. Carnegie, William Randolph Hearst and Walter P. Chrysler.
TPC River Highlands - Original architect: Robert J. Ross and Maurice Kearney (1928) Course redesign: Bobby Weed (1998) Par value 70 Course record = 60 Patrick Cantlay, 2011 Round - 2 Finish - T24
*************The Olympic Club, San Francisco. Founded in 1860. This will be the 5th US Open hosted here & will be played on the Lake Course - the 1st was in 1955 won by Jack Fleck. Can you name the last champion here & the year?
************Tiger Woods wins the 2012 Memorial to tie Jack Nicklaus for 2nd with 73 PGA tour wins. Who is #1 & how many victories did he claim?
Memorial Tournament - Dublin, Ohio
The TOUR remains in the Lone Star State and heads to the Dallas area for the second leg of the Texas Swing. TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas.
**********Can you name this legendary golfer? What was his nickname? How many straight PGA tournaments did he win to set a record that still stands?
No caption required . . .
Field, Past Champions & Tee Times Links:
http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r021/tee-times.html
http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r021/field.html
**Royal Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. The British Open last held here in 2001. Can you name the champion? **See blog sidebar for answer
Tiger - Sawgrass
TPC Louisiana
Quail Hollow Hole #18: This is the last of a three hole stretch dubbed “The Green Mile” and is consistently one of the toughest finishing holes in golf. On the tee shot, players must avoid a bunker on the right, as well as a creek that meanders along the entire left side of the narrow fairway. An uphill second shot must avoid hazards on both sides of the green, which is deep and sloped. If a player must birdie this hole to win the tournament, he will definitely have his hands full.
TPC San Antonio
***** Can you name this golfer?
GREAT GOLF DEAL!!! Get your team together for the next MSI Golf Scramble on June 8th at Wolf Creek: $45 includes great raffle prizes & Fricker's dinner. All proceeds go to the Hope Center.
********Royal flush: King Louis XIV of France (1643-1715, AKA: "The Sun King") is said to have withstood, or perhaps enjoyed, more than 2,000 enemas during his reign, sometimes while holding public court. I'll now always think of this guy as the "Enema King". What else distinguishes him historically? That kind of enema dedication earns this king a well-deserved seat on our Belly Gallery porcelain throne!
May Day, 1911 - Bryn Mawr, PA
MAY DAY
Celts called it Beltane and the Romans named it Floralia, but May 1 has been known as May Day since the Middle Ages. In 1543, England built a Maypole that reached 100 feet, the country's tallest. Isaac Newton eventually purchased the pole in 1713 and used it to prop up a massive telescope. Worried that the rowdy festival made people frisky, the Catholic Church banned May Day celebrations in the early 1600s. The clergy wasn't the only group to point out May Day's sexual undertones: Several historians have suggested that the maypole is a phallic symbol. Every May Day, the town of Stilton, England, celebrates with a cheese-rolling contest. Costumed teams compete to roll a wooden "cheese" wheel down the city's main street to the finish line.
Celts called it Beltane and the Romans named it Floralia, but May 1 has been known as May Day since the Middle Ages. In 1543, England built a Maypole that reached 100 feet, the country's tallest. Isaac Newton eventually purchased the pole in 1713 and used it to prop up a massive telescope. Worried that the rowdy festival made people frisky, the Catholic Church banned May Day celebrations in the early 1600s. The clergy wasn't the only group to point out May Day's sexual undertones: Several historians have suggested that the maypole is a phallic symbol. Every May Day, the town of Stilton, England, celebrates with a cheese-rolling contest. Costumed teams compete to roll a wooden "cheese" wheel down the city's main street to the finish line.
Texas Open Tournament Trivia:
*Na Na - Na Na, Na Na - Na Na, Hey He - ey, 16! Trivia question: What is the highest score, on one hole, in a PGA event? By whom? Where & what year? HINT: It wasn't Na's 16 in this event last year. * Answer is at bottom of blog sidebar..............
Kevin Na Video:
http://www.pgatour.com/video/r/highlights/top_
shots/2011/04/14/mine_11valero_rnd1_9_na.pgatour/index.html
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, EVEN MORE NA
"If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death." Sam Snead
 |   Texas Tan Line |
Champions Tour:
May 24-27 Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid
The Golf Club at Harbor Shores, Benton Harbor, Michigan Purse: $2,000,000 Tom Watson (D)
$360,000
European Tour:
June 06 - June 09: Lee Westwood won his third Nordea Masters title in resounding fashion with a five shot triumph at Bro Hof Slott.
June 06 - June 09: Lee Westwood won his third Nordea Masters title in resounding fashion with a five shot triumph at Bro Hof Slott.
Bro Hof Slott, Stockholm, Sweden
Brendan Grace, 2012 China Open Champion
US Women's LPGA Open, Blackwulf Run, Kohler, Wisconsin
LPGA
US Open 2nd round leader - Suzann Pettersen
******Can you name the LPGA golfer on the left?
***Stacy Lewis (above right after winning Dinah Shore tournament last year) won the Mobile Bay event in Alabama. Do you know where she was born? *** See bottom of blog sidebar
Wacky, Weird, Stupid Sports Injuries
 Former Manchester United keeper Alex Stepney screamed so loud at his team during a 1975 match that he broke his jaw.  OUCH!!! Ken Griffey, Jr., the Seattle Mariners legend once missed a game in 2006 — then with the Cincinnati Reds — when he pinched himself with his protective cup. |  Thomas Levet of France and his manager Patrice Bartez, jump into the lake on the 18th hole after winning the French Open. At some point during his celebratory jump, Levet broke his leg and had to miss the 2011 British Open.  Joe DiMaggio missed the first 16 games of his rookie season with the New York Yankees in 1936 with first degree burns on his left foot. He was stepped on during an exhibition game, and when the foot began to swell he was given treatment that included placing the foot in a diathermy machine. The heat control was improperly adjusted, burning the foot so badly that DiMaggio had to have two large blisters lanced and then spent two days in the hospital. He did come back to hit .323 with 29 home runs and 125 RBI. |
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY, OR WHAT???
PHONY DYING BRIDE ORDERED TO REPAY VICTIMS
(Reuters) - A New York bride who faked having terminal cancer to swindle well-wishers into funding her dream wedding and honeymoon to the Caribbean on Wednesday was ordered to repay more than $13,000 to her victims, prosecutors
said. Jessica Vega, 25, pleaded guilty last month to fraud and forgery charges for deceiving people in the Hudson Valley area of New York into thinking she had only a few months to live, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said. Moved by her tale, individuals and businesses donated thousands of dollars to pay for her wedding in May 2010 and her honeymoon in Aruba.
said. Jessica Vega, 25, pleaded guilty last month to fraud and forgery charges for deceiving people in the Hudson Valley area of New York into thinking she had only a few months to live, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said. Moved by her tale, individuals and businesses donated thousands of dollars to pay for her wedding in May 2010 and her honeymoon in Aruba.
| Nadia Suleman's "Snowman" Results in Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES | Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:49pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The California mother of octuplets, dubbed "Octomom," filed for bankruptcy on Monday, after previously admitting she was on public assistance to support herself and her 14 children.Nadya Suleman, 36, gave birth to eight babies as a single mother in 2009. But goodwill turned to anger in the media after it was revealed Suleman had undergone fertility treatments when she already had six children, and questions were raised about her ability to provide for her family. Her children became only the second set of octuplets known to have survived birth in the United States. Suleman, who lives in the Southern California suburban community of La Habra, has less than $50,000 in assets and owes between $500,000 and $1 million, according to legal papers submitted to U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California and posted at entertainment website E! Online. |  Suleman told ABC News last week that she had received $4,000 to $5,000 a month in public assistance. |
Brooklyn Man Impersonates Dead Mother to Collect Social Security Checks - FOR SIX YEARS!
(Reuters) - A man who impersonated his dead mother as part of a real estate scam - using lipstick, manicured nails and even an oxygen tank at a meeting - was convicted of fraud on Thursday and faces up to 83 years in prison, prosecutors said. Thomas Parkin, 51, was found guilty of 11 criminal counts, including charges of fraud, grand larceny, perjury and forgery for his scams. Along with the real estate fraud, Parkin and a partner cashed his mother's social security checks every month for six years, stealing about $44,000. The real estate scam centered on an apartment building in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn that Parkin's mother, Irene Pruskin, had deeded to her son in the 1990s. In January 2003, nine months before his mother died, Parkin was forced to sell the building at a foreclosure auction. Soon after, Parkin and another man, Mhilton Rimolo, 49, filed a fraud lawsuit against the building's new owner -under his dead mother's name.Parkin then doctored documents to make it appear that his mother was still alive, and even set up a meeting with the Brooklyn District Attorney's real estate fraud unit to discuss the matter.At the meeting, investigators from the fraud unit found "Parkin dressed as his 77-year-old mother, wearing a red cardigan, lipstick, manicured nails and breathing through an oxygen tank," prosecutors said on Thursday.Parkin is due to be sentenced on May 21. Rimolo, his partner in the fraud, previously pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison.
IS MEXICO A GREAT COUNTRY, OR WHAT?
ATLIXCO, Mexico | Mon
Jun 18, 2012 10:46pm EDT
ATLIXCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Sex sells - at least that's what the ruling party candidate is hoping as she seeks to rescue her fading chances in Mexico's upcoming presidential election. Sitting well behind the frontrunner, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the National Action Party (PAN) has appealed to women voters to use their wiles to ensure their husbands vote on July 1. First she urged them on her Twitter account to withhold "cuchi cuchi", or hanky panky, for a month if the husbands don't vote. Then, challenged by a disgruntled man, she upped the ante on Monday. "Today a man wrote to me and said: Josefina, why the negative? What's the prize? Why not a month without hanky panky for those who don't come out to vote, and double rations for those who do?"
Jun 18, 2012 10:46pm EDT
ATLIXCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Sex sells - at least that's what the ruling party candidate is hoping as she seeks to rescue her fading chances in Mexico's upcoming presidential election. Sitting well behind the frontrunner, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the National Action Party (PAN) has appealed to women voters to use their wiles to ensure their husbands vote on July 1. First she urged them on her Twitter account to withhold "cuchi cuchi", or hanky panky, for a month if the husbands don't vote. Then, challenged by a disgruntled man, she upped the ante on Monday. "Today a man wrote to me and said: Josefina, why the negative? What's the prize? Why not a month without hanky panky for those who don't come out to vote, and double rations for those who do?"
BUCKY'S BLOTTER
In our continuing effort to bring you all of the latest news, activities, crime, recruiting violations, developments & shenanigans constantly taking place in Buckeye Nation, the golfguruguys present to you, our loyal readers:
OSU - SEX, CRIME, TATTOOS, CORRUPTION, NCAA INVESTIGATIONS INTO WRONG-DOING, BRIBES, BETTING, GAME-FIXING & LIES*
* NOTE: Due to time & space considerations, our Buckeye Nation coverage will have to be limited to only the highest-profile corruption at OSU . . .
In our continuing effort to bring you all of the latest news, activities, crime, recruiting violations, developments & shenanigans constantly taking place in Buckeye Nation, the golfguruguys present to you, our loyal readers:
OSU - SEX, CRIME, TATTOOS, CORRUPTION, NCAA INVESTIGATIONS INTO WRONG-DOING, BRIBES, BETTING, GAME-FIXING & LIES*
* NOTE: Due to time & space considerations, our Buckeye Nation coverage will have to be limited to only the highest-profile corruption at OSU . . .
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 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio State Coach Urban Meyer dismissed senior linebacker Storm Klein from the football team on Saturday following his arrest on domestic violence and assault charges. |  Maurice Clarett's car interior after arrest . . . |
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Ohio State: 46 NCAA Sports Programs Violations Since Tressel Resignation Last May 30th! AD states, "It was a typical year of inadvertent mistakes."
Highly Sought-After Buckeye Linebacker Recruit Quits OSU After Known Sex Offender is Involved in On-Campus Recruit Photo Shoot
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/top-recruit-reneges-from-ohio-state-over-photo-with-sex-offender-050512
 5-years of inadvertent Buckeye Football Tattoos |  Inadvertent Tressel Trouble |  Inadvertent Sad Bucky |
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Buckeye Hall of Shame Nominee Art Schlichter
Ex-Ohio State (and Indianapolis Colts) QB Art Schlichter was sentenced
Friday to almost 11 years in prison for scamming people in a million-dollar
sports ticket scheme. The 52-year-old Schlichter is no stranger to the penal
system - the gambling addiction that ruined his NFL career landed him in
prison once before. In addition to the ticket scheme, U.S. District Court
Judge Michael Watson's sentence also included Schlichter's probation violation
on his prior forgery conviction in 1997). Good-time behavior might have him out after 9
years. Authorities say he promised college and NFL game tickets
to his customers, but stiffed them for thousands of dollars. He plead guilty in
the fall and was put on house arrest pending his sentencing. In January, he was
busted twice for testing positive for cocaine. Schlichter played at Ohio State from 1978-1981.
Ex-Ohio State (and Indianapolis Colts) QB Art Schlichter was sentenced
Friday to almost 11 years in prison for scamming people in a million-dollar
sports ticket scheme. The 52-year-old Schlichter is no stranger to the penal
system - the gambling addiction that ruined his NFL career landed him in
prison once before. In addition to the ticket scheme, U.S. District Court
Judge Michael Watson's sentence also included Schlichter's probation violation
on his prior forgery conviction in 1997). Good-time behavior might have him out after 9
years. Authorities say he promised college and NFL game tickets
to his customers, but stiffed them for thousands of dollars. He plead guilty in
the fall and was put on house arrest pending his sentencing. In January, he was
busted twice for testing positive for cocaine. Schlichter played at Ohio State from 1978-1981.
Best football job in the Big Ten? ESPN says Ohio State is No. 1, Michigan No. 2
- #11? Hoosiers . . .
- #11? Hoosiers . . .
Wayne Woodrow (Woody) Hayes Tribute:
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