2012 Memorial Tournament: Round 2 Live Blog

Golf.com will live-blog the second round of the Memorial Tournament, starting at noon Eastern.

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Truth & Rumors: Cheyenne Woods to make pro debut at LPGA Championship

Will the next Woods to win a major be Cheyenne?

Tiger Woods's niece received an exemption to next week's Wegmans LPGA Championship in Pittsford, N.Y., and John Dell of the Winston-Salem Journal says Woods has the game to compete.

Woods had an outstanding career at Wake Forest, winning twice and setting the school record for lowest career scoring average of 73.71. Last season she averaged 73.69, the fourth best in school history.

She played in the Wegmans in 2009 but missed the cut as an amateur. But her former coach at Wake Forest, Dianne Dailey, said Woods impressed everybody with how she carried herself.

"She missed the cut by one shot, but it was what she did off the course that impressed the folks running the tournament," Dailey said. "She put on a clinic, visited a hospital and was gracious with her time while she was there. I had one of the organizers call me afterward, and she told me Cheyenne was great to work with and was so cooperative."

Cheyenne's famous uncle will also be tuning in.

"It's exciting to see her grow and mature, and I'm just proud of her, and to see her embark on a professional career in golf is very exciting to me," Tiger Woods said, "not only from being her uncle but as a fan."

Member rips club for nude golf, other shenanigans
Piedmont Driving Club member John C. Weitnauer is not happy with some of the recent ... "activities" at his club, and decided to write a letter to the club president about it. Somehow, the letter fell into Deadspin's hands, and the rest is history. Here's how the letter begins:

Dear John:

I have heard that, during and after the latest member/member golf tournament, a great deal of — to put it mildly — inappropriate behavior occurred.

I have heard the following:

• several members decided to play several holes with no shirts. I am sure that this is contrary to the rules of the golf course. Had this been the only infraction of good manners that apparently occurred at the tournament, I would not be writing this letter.

• one member decided to play the 14th hole completely naked. I have not researched it, but I suspect this is a crime in Georgia.

• several members urinated on one of the greens, in the presence of the caddie, a female, and one or more of the members deliberately exposed themselves to her while urinating. I suspect that this is also a crime in Georgia.

Believe it or not, the letter actually gets worse from there. You have to read it to believe it.

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In case you missed it, Jack Nicklaus got a little choked up introducing his friend and formal rival Tom Watson on Wednesday at the Memorial.

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Rory McIlroy refocused and ready for Memorial

DUBLIN, Ohio -- Rory McIlroy had a simple explanation for why he suddenly added next week's St. Jude Classic to his schedule.

"I just feel like I need some rounds."

Then he paused for a moment before the punchline.

"These two-day weeks aren't really that good for me."

McIlroy has always poked fun at himself, and after a few rough weeks, it was clear Wednesday McIlroy isn't hitting the panic button yet.

He missed the cut in his last two starts -- the Players and the BMW PGA -- and admitted last week he may have slacked a little bit in his preparation. McIlroy elaborated Wednesday at Muirfield Village that he also hadn't seen his coach, Michael Bannon, that much this year. The two met last week after McIlroy missed the cut, and Bannon is here this week to fine-tune McIlroy's swing before he defends his U.S. Open title in two weeks.

But first, McIlroy wants to get to the weekend here at the Memorial Tournament, where he's finished in the top 10 twice in three starts.

"When you've went on a run where you've hardly finished outside the top five and then all of a sudden two missed cuts, it's more of a shock than anything else, just a little bit surprising, and it's something I haven't really had to deal with in a while," McIlroy said. "I just have to knuckle down and figure it out and get back to the way I was at the start of the year."

Even though McIlroy has a U.S. Open in his trophy case and has reached No. 1 several times, he's still 23 years old and trying to figure out life on Tour. This year McIlroy jumped to the PGA Tour full time and moved from Northern Ireland to Florida. Oh, and he began dating tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. 

"This year has been a big learning curve for me because I'm still trying to find a balance between being a top‑class golfer and handling media commitments, sponsors' commitments, trying to have a life outside of all that, just trying to balance everything," McIlroy said. "It's something that it's hard to do all of them all at the same time. Yeah, it's something that I'm still figuring out how to do. But I've got a good team around me, and we're trying to figure that out at the minute."

McIlroy is also getting used to the 24/7 scrutiny of his game. He'll likely never be under the microscope as much as Tiger Woods, but McIlroy is certainly a player whose game is now dissected every week. Smashing U.S. Open records and being No. 1 tends to bring a little more attention, which he learned the hard way last week after he chucked a 6-iron after a bad shot at the BMW PGA.

"I didn't think it was that big a deal, and then I wake up the next morning and it's all over the papers in the UK, and I'm just like, Oh, my God," McIlroy said. "It's just one of those things, and it's something I'm going to have to deal with and learn how to do."

(Photo: Matt Sullivan/Reuters)

Highlights from Jack Nicklaus press conference at the Memorial

DUBLIN, Ohio -- When Jack Nicklaus started the Memorial Tournament, he wanted to model it after a little tournament down in Augusta, Ga. And just like the Masters, the Memorial Tournament has a few traditions every year that make the event special. Now that he’s done playing, Nicklaus doesn’t do too many press conferences, so every year at Muirfield Village, Jack’s presser has become a must-see event since it offers a rare opportunity to pick the brain of golf’s greatest champion. Here are a few highlights:

On Bubba's shot at the Masters: “I'm trying to visualize how much he hooked the ball at 10 at Augusta. I don't know how much he hooked it, but he obviously hooked it a lot. But what amazed me was when the ball came down on the green with a hook as hard as he hit it, it backed up. It backed up the hill, and I said, How do you make a golf ball do that? That was kind of interesting I thought.”

On taking control of his golf swing: “[Bobby Jones] said I need to be responsible for my own swing and understand when I have problems on the golf course how I can correct those problems on the golf course myself without having to run back to somebody.

“And during the years that I was playing most of my competitive golf, I saw Jack Grout maybe once or twice a year for maybe an hour. If I was in the Miami area or something, I'd run down and see Jack and we'd spend about an hour and we'd spend five minutes on the golf swing and an hour catching up. But he taught me young the fundamentals of the game. He taught me how to assess what I was doing. When I made a mistake, when I was doing things, how do you on the golf course fix that without putting yourself out of a golf tournament and then teaching yourself.”

On talking with Tiger about his swing changes: “I was asking him, Why do you need somebody to watch you all the time? He said, I really don't. He said, I go to Sean and I get some ideas, but then I really go work on it myself and try to learn what I want to do and how I want to do it, which I think is the right way. I said, If you're doing that, you're on the right track, but all I read in the papers is how Sean is making a swing change on you. He said, That's not what I'm doing. I said, Okay, that's fine then, because he's trying to be responsible for himself.”

On winning his first U.S. Open 50 years ago: “I almost won in '60 at Cherry Hills, and I really look back, it's one that I gave away. But I was 20 years old. I gave it away because I didn't know how to win. And then the next year I didn't really give it away, but I had a good chance to win, and I finished fourth. I felt going into Oakmont that, man, I'm not letting this one get away.”

On his recent visit with Arnold Palmer at Oakmont: “The purpose of the visit to Oakmont was to try to get a couple of shots for a special they're doing for USGA on the '62 Open, 50 years since then. And Arnold says, Why do I have to do that? They want me to do the one with Casper in '67. I lost them both. (Laughter.) I said, You won enough. We'll get to yours that they won. I said, Did they do one at Cherry Hills, Arnold? Yeah. Okay, I lost there. We were kidding each other about it.”

On the early days of the Tour: “We talked about traveling in the car, back in the day when we didn't have disposable diapers, and we had a diaper pail in the backseat with a port-a-crib and off we went. Let me tell you, you'd better keep the windows open. I'll tell you what, it didn't smell very good.

“And all the players, we'd all try to figure out and go to the same motel so we could have cookouts, and then the wives would take turns watching other people's kids. If one of the guys was in contention, the other wives would take care of their kids and they'd go watch their husband play golf. We did a lot of that kind of stuff in the days when we were playing.”

On being a slow player: “I got a two stroke penalty at Portland, and I got a two stroke penalty at Houston playing with Cary Middlecoff, and he didn't get a penalty, so then I knew I was really slow. You don't know Cary Middlecoff, but he was the slowest.”

 

French golfer to dress like Lady Gaga if he gets 1 million Twitter followers

You might remember French golfer Thomas Levet for his T2 finish at the 2002 British Open at Muirfield or for breaking his shin jumping into a pond after winning the 2011 French Open. However, we bet you'll never forget Levet if he becomes the first golfer to play an event in a meat dress.

Yes, Levet has promised to play his next tournament in the UK dressed as Lady Gaga if he gets to 1 million followers on Twitter.

If I go past 1M followers,I will play as lady Gaga my next tournament in the uk!!

— thomas Levet (@thomaslevetgolf) May 28, 2012

He's got a ways to go, with fewer than 6,000 followers on Twitter as of Wednesday afternoon.

In related news, Twitter has officially jumped the shark.

Thomas Levet and Lady Gaga. Associated Press Photo

Truth & Rumors: Watch the Golf Boys at Bubba Bash

They're back!

The Golf Boys -- the "musical" group of Ben Crane, Hunter Mahan, Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson -- performed their hit "Oh, Oh, Oh" Tuesday night at Bubba Bash in Columbus, Ohio.

Watson's Bubba Bash is a Christian rap concert that raises money for a medical clinic in Kenya.

5-year-old makes hole-in-one in Wisconsin
Gary D'Amato of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel posts an item that will make you laugh or cry, depending on how long you've waited for your first ace:

YOUNG ACE: Max Frieseke of Glendale smacked a drive and watched his ball soar toward the green, bounce onto it and roll into the cup for a hole-in-one. Good for him, but what's the big deal? Well, Max is 5 years old and is finishing K-4 at Holy Family Parish School in Whitefish Bay. He used the driver from his starter set to ace the 53-yard third hole at Lake Park Golf Course while playing recently with his parents, Bob and Beth Frieseke. "Beth and I were going crazy," Bob said. "We were more excited about it than Max was. In his mind, he thought it was like a hole-in-one in mini-golf."

Montgomerie might set his sights on the 'senior grand slam'
After failing to qualify for this year's U.S. Open, 49-year-old Colin Montgomerie said he might turn his attention to the 'senior grand slam' when he turns 50 next June, according to Martin Dempster of The Scotsman.

“I may as well come clean and say I am tempted by the idea of a ‘senior grand slam’,” admitted the eight-time European No 1. “A tall order, I know, but golfing dreams are not solely the preserve of the young.

“I turn 50 a month ahead of the 2013 Senior Open and I will see how I enjoy the camaraderie that week. I’m beginning to suspect I will like it a lot. I will be in the class of ’63 that includes Vijay Singh and Davis Love."

Montgomerie is our choice for best player to never win a major -- sorry, Luke -- and we look forward to seeing him on the senior tour.

UPDATE: Tiger's niece to play in Wegmans LPGA Championship

Golfweek.com reports that Tiger Woods's niece Cheyenne Woods will make her debut as a professional at the Wegmans LPGA Championship on June 7.

Cheyenne Woods, a recent Wake Forest graduate, will play her first tournament as a professional June 7-10 at the Wegmans LPGA Championship. It’s the second major of the LPGA season.

Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods, will play Wegmans on a sponsor exemption. She also played this event in 2009 as an amateur but missed the cut. That was her first start in a professional tournament.

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Golf Boys just went live at @bubbasbash #goodthingwecanplaygolf

— Rickie Fowler (@RickieFowlerPGA) May 30, 2012

Erik Compton fine after health scare

DUBLIN, Ohio -- Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton, who was relaxing at Muirfield Village on Wednesday morning before a handful of interviews to promote donatelife.net, said he nearly withdrew from the HP Byron Nelson Championship after a health scare two weeks ago.

"I didn't want to freak anybody out, so I didn't say anything," Compton said.

Compton wasn't feeling well in the third round and considered withdrawing after only a few holes. He stuck it out, carded a 71, and saw a doctor on site at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Las Colinas, Texas. After Compton divulged his medical history, and a few tests proved inconclusive but troubling, the doctor insisted that Compton go to the ER for more tests Saturday night. He began feeling better, was discharged around midnight, and despite everything shot a final-round 68 to tie for 36th place.

"I made 18 birdies, which led the field," Compton said, "but my head wasn't in it for big portions of the tournament. I three-putted 10 times."

Dustin Johnson returns from second injury in less than a year

DUBLIN, Ohio –- Dustin Johnson knew it’d been a while since he’d been on tour when he arrived at the Memorial Tournament and realized he forgot to pack a key part of his wardrobe -– belts.

“Wasn’t quite in the routine,” Johnson joked Tuesday at Muirfield Village.

Johnson has been sidelined with a back injury he suffered while trying to help a friend move a jet ski. The injury forced Johnson to miss the Masters, and he hasn’t played in a tournament since a T35 at Doral in March.

“I really didn't touch a club for five, six weeks,” Johnson said.

This is the second time in less than a year that one of the tour’s brightest stars has been out with an injury. Johnson had knee surgery in November to repair cartilage, and he was returning to full strength when he injured his back.

“I had knee surgery and then I rehabbed that, and really, that went really well,” Johnson said. “And then to have a back injury was pretty frustrating. But I'm all healthy now and all good, and I'm ready to play golf.”

Johnson’s back will be tested in the next few weeks as he tackles Muirfield Village this week, and then Memphis next week before heading to the U.S. Open at Olympic Club, a place Johnson knows well. In 2007, Johnson lost in the first round of the U.S. Amateur at Olympic.

“It played tough during the U.S. Am,” Johnson said. “I know they've made some changes, but I think it's a good course.”

Johnson could use a good finish this week, not only for his confidence, but also because he’s slipped all the way to 24th in the Ryder Cup standings. Johnson was a key part of the last U.S. Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams, but he calmly dismissed the notion there was any added pressure to make the team.

“I want to be on the team, and I'm going to do whatever I can to make it,” Johnson said. “Obviously having a couple months off hurts a little bit, but I've still got plenty of time to make the team.”

(Photo: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Fred Couples, Nick Price selected as captains for 2013 Presidents Cup

PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem announced Tuesday that Fred Couples and Nick Price will serve as captains at the 2013 Presidents Cup.

Couples played in four Presidents Cups and captained the U.S. team in 2009 and 2011.

"Without being on the team, there's nothing better than to be a captain," Couples said.

Price will serve as captain of the international team for the first time. He played in the event five times and takes over the captain's job from Greg Norman.

The 2013 Presidents Cup will be held at Muirfield Village in Columbus, Ohio.

Truth & Rumors: Tiger skips press conference to chat with fans online

Much has been made about Tiger Woods's "hostage video," which he posted before the Wells Fargo Championship. That was a social media play that allowed him to interact with fans while skipping the usual pre-tournament press conference. By all accounts, the roughly 15-minute session was hardly scintillating, but at 4 p.m. Tuesday on Google+ something similar happened. Woods did a 30-minute "hangout" in which he answered queries from fans.

SBNation took a look at some of the questions posted on El Tigre's Google+ site before his last session and found a few doozies that he chose to skip. Here they are for your reading pleasure: 

“How many wins do you think you can pull out of your arse for the remainder of the 2012 season?” asked “Cody Miller.”

“Brian Musha” quizzed Woods about his entourage: “Do you think Elin will bring Sam and Charlie to be there when you when your 19th major championship??”

If you want to see what Tiger had to say on Tuesday, check out the 34-minute video here.

Rory McIlroy admits he took 'eye off ball'
After missing the cut badly at Wentworth this weekend and losing his world No. 1 ranking, Rory McIlroy came to grips with a harsh truth about his game and life, according to the Daily Mail, and promised to hit the range to get his game in shape:

'Maybe I have taken my eye off the ball and haven't been practicing as hard as I might,' he said. 'I'm staying here and I'll be on that practice ground bright and early,' he said. 'I need to put in some hard hours on the range so I can get my game back to the level it was at earlier in the season.' 

This admission comes not long after McIlroy missed the cut at The Players and then jumped on the first plane to Rome to meet his girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki. And where was Rory on Saturday, just a day after missing the cut? Paris, of course, as Woznicaki noted on twitter.

Luke Donald credits mental-game coach with return to No. 1 ranking
After a resounding victory at Wentworth's BMW PGA Championship this weekend, Englishman Luke Donald has once again reclaimed the world No. 1 ranking from young superstar Rory McIlroy. According to Donald, his calm demeanor throughout the closing holes of the tournament, as well as the impressive growth of his stature in the golf world, is largely due to the work he's done with mental coach Dave Alred, according to the Associated Press:

"It's helped me to really be aware of my posture and how I outwardly project that feeling of positiveness," Donald said. "It helps me send that message to whoever I'm playing with."

"He's certainly always on at me again about keeping the shoulders back and not getting down on myself, staying positive not just mentally but physically and through my body position," Donald said of Alred.

"So I think I've done a lot better job of it since I've been working with Dave. He's always reminding me. "It helps to feel very confident on the greens, too. It's always been a strength of mine, especially in the last four or five years."

According the Donald, Alred's biggest challenge now is helping him get the major championship victory that he dearly covets.

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Rory RT @shuv1000: In your opinion who has the most natural swing on tour?

— Hank Haney (@HankDHaney) May 29, 2012

SI Golf Ranking: Dufner, Donald take top two spots

Each week, 15 staffers from SI Golf+, Golf Magazine and GOLF.com vote for their top 10, awarding 10 points to their first choice and proceeding in descending order to the 10th player, who gets one point. The points are then added and the ranking calculated. This ranking aims to be an of-the-moment measure of who’s playing the best right now. Tell us your top 10 in the comments field below.

RANK (TOTAL VOTES, FIRST PLACE VOTES, LAST WEEK'S RANK)

1. Jason Dufner (143, 9, 1) - Last three finishes: 2, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial; 1, HP Byron Nelson Championship; T68 The Players Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 8

2. Luke Donald (135, 6, 5) - Last three finishes: 1, BMW PGA Championship; 6, The Players Championship; 3, Zurich Classic of New Orleans
- Official World Golf Ranking: 1

3.  Rory McIlroy (98, 0, 2)  - Last three finishes: MC, BMW PGA Championship; MC, The Players Championship; T2, Wells Fargo Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 2

4. Matt Kuchar (78, 0, 3) - Last three finishes: T26, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial; T15, HP Byron Nelson Championship; 1, The Players Championship
-Official World Golf Ranking: 5

5. Rickie Fowler (67, 0, 7) - Last three finishes: T5, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial; T2, The Players Championship; 1, Wells Fargo Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 19

6. Phil Mickelson (66, 0, 6) - Last three finishes: T7, HP Byron Nelson Championship; T25, The Players Championship; T26, Wells Fargo Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 12

7. Bubba Watson (59, 0, 4) - Last three finishes: T18, Zurich Classic of New Orleans; 1, Masters; T4 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Official World Golf Ranking: 4

8. Lee Westwood (52, 0, 8) - Last three finishes: T33 BMW PGA Championship; T61, The Players Championship; T5, Wells Fargo Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 3

9. Zach Johnson (42, 0, NR) - Last three finishes: 1, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial; T2, The Players Championship; T69, Wells Fargo Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 17

10. Hunter Mahan (36, 0, 9) - Last three finishes: T37, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial; MC, The Players Championship; T53, Wells Fargo Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 7


Others receiving votes:
Justin Rose (16)
Ben Curtis (14)
Branden Grace (9)
Graeme McDowell (6)
Louis Oosthuizen (2)
Bill Haas (1)
Tiger Woods (1)

Final-round highlights from 2012 Colonial

Here are the highlights from Zach Johnson's victory at the Colonial, where Johnson hung on to win by one after a bizarre two-shot penalty on the final hole.

Truth & Rumors: Plane door lands on Florida golf course

Nervous flyers may want to skip this item. Nervous golfers, too. On Wednesday afternoon a cabin door ripped off an airborne jet and plummeted thousands of feet onto a golf course north of Miami. Nobody was hurt, according to CNN:

The Canadair CL600 jet was traveling from Opa-Locka to Pompano Beach, Florida, on Wednesday when it was diverted and landed safely at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Berge.

The door, with retractable boarding stairs attached, crashed through trees, bouncing onto a golf course near Hallandale Beach, according to CNN affiliate WSVN, which shot video of it being removed by a tow truck.

The golf course, at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, was closed at the time.

Is Kevin Na playing too ... quickly?

Kevin Na, who was pilloried at the Players for his excruciatingly slow play, showcased a new waggle-less pre-shot routine Thursday at Colonial, and he held up just fine en route to en even-par 70, according to Richard Durrett of ESPNDallas.com:

Na's new routine has no waggles and takes little time. He takes one practice swing when he's at the ball, then puts the club behind the ball, looks at the target, sets his feet, and when he feels comfortable -- and it didn't take him long to feel comfortable Thursday -- he takes the club back and hits the ball.

…"Every shot is hard," Na said. "I'm constantly thinking about it. I'm not even thinking about my golf swing. That's kind of hurting me a little bit because I always have a swing thought, but right now, I have no swing thought. I don't have time to have a swing thought. I've just got to think about my pre-shot routine, get ready and go."

Here’s the kicker:

…John Huh, who has played with Na several times this season, told him he thought he was actually quicker than he needed to be.

"I said, 'John, I'm just one of those guys that if I'm going to fix it, I'm going to do it right now,' " Na said. "I'm not going to go little by little. I'm going to change the whole thing."

Sixteen-year-old girl beats up on boys at Bethpage event

Remember this name. Annie Park, a high-school junior on Long Island, won the Nassau boys high school championship Wednesday with a two-round 8-under 134 on the Red and Blue courses at Bethpage State Park. That tally shattered the tournament record by six. Newsday’s Luara Albanese has the story (it’s a pay site, however, so thanks to the extravagantly funded geoffshackelford.com for ponying up and posting the details)…

Park defeated a field of 134 golfers — 133 of whom were boys. She finished six strokes ahead of Farmingdale sophomore Matt Lowe, who was the two-time defending champion and previous record holder. Lowe's younger sister, Alix, was the only other girl in the tournament.

"It feels good, I guess," Park said when asked about her victory over the boys. "I was just thinking about my own game." Lowe, an accomplished golfer who is gunning for a spot in the men's U.S. Open, was thinking about her game, too.

"She's gotta be one of the best female golfers in the world," said Lowe, 16, of Farmingdale. "It's like being hit by a freight train."

Give props to Lowe, too. He may have just delivered the quote of the year.

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Worst traffic I have ever seen around Wentworth, means only 1 thing huge crowds, best golfing gallery in the world. No get in the hole crap

— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) May 25, 2012

Truth and Rumors: Will Tiger play golf into his 50s?

Tiger Woods took to the airwaves on 106.7 The Fan in Washington D.C. to discuss his swing and a few other topics while promoting the AT&T National, which he hosts. The most interesting point came when Woods hinted that sees himself playing -- and contending -- into his 50s. Deadspin has more from the transcript.

Looking down the road, do you think you can keep winning tournaments into your 50s?:

"Absolutely, 100 percent agree with that. It just has to be on the right golf course. It can't be, at that age - well, by the time I'm at that age, it'll be some golf courses over 8,000 yards. It's probably not going to be at one of those; it's probably going to be at a shorter golf course like you'd find at a British Open. Tom [Watson], at Turnberry, it was like the perfect Open. It was howling, it was a golf course he had won on and knew how to play and it was playing very quick. … You can certainly see a certain player playing into their 50s and being successful on a certain venue. You can't do it on all venues, there's no doubt. Some ballparks are just too big."

Tiger to release another hostage video fan chat video
Golf fans who couldn't get enough of Tiger Woods's video chat during the week of the Wells Fargo Championship will no doubt be thrilled to learn that a sequel is on the way, this time in the form of a Google+ chat. Woods has not announced whether he will face the media at a press conference before next week's Memorial, but when Woods conducted a video chat before Quail Hollow he elected not to appear at a pre-tournament presser. Woods announced the news on his website.

Tiger Woods, winner of 72 PGA Tour tournaments and 14 major golf championships, has invited fans to join him next Tuesday afternoon, May 29, on Google+ for his first Hangout. You are asked to send questions about the upcoming Memorial Tournament, the U.S. Open and other topics, and Tiger will pick some of you to join him LIVE next week. Please use the hashtag #TigerHangout.

The Hangout will also feature special guests and is expected to last for about 30 minutes. It will give fans a chance to interact with Tiger as he prepares for the Memorial Tournament next week and the U.S. Open in June.

Jack excited about Senior PGA course
This week the Senior PGA Championship will be held at Harbor Shores, which sits between the neighboring towns of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph in Southwest Michigan. It will be the first major to be played at the new Jack Nicklaus-designed track, and the Golden Bear is excited about both the course and its impact on the surrounding community.

"People would ask me, 'Why Harbor Shores?' and my answer was always, 'Why not?'" Nicklaus said. "A man who had worked for me, Mark Hesemann, came to me and said they had a project they wanted me to do in Michigan to revitalize the community here in Benton Harbor. He asked if I would be interested. I said, 'Sure, that's what we do.' We had just done a couple of reclamation projects.

"So I came up here and they took me out to the site. And I said, 'Where is the golf course going to be?' And they said, 'Right there.' And I said, 'Where?' because I was looking at buildings and looking at dumps. Usually for a golf course you're looking at this nice pristine looking property. But we had to knock down buildings and remove waste. We removed enough waste to fill an area a football field long and 65 feet high...

"...It was more fun for a variety of reasons. I always have fun doing a golf course. It's always fun to see it finished. But in this case, it was fun to see a community revitalized. The jobs that were created here by this project, the support that Jeff (Fettig, Chairman and CEO of Whirlpool) and the Whirlpool Corporation gave to it and the support of the communities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph were tremendous. Everybody pulled together. That's what we need in this country, everybody pulling together to get something done. We were really privileged to be a part of that. We were just a small part with a golf course and green grass."

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