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Re: Tiger Woods Rumored to Be Tossing This Woman Around Like One of His Drivers

CharlesBoyer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:09:46 -0000

So, the Enquirer throws out some inneuendo based on hearsay and gossip, and we're supposed to believe it?

Yeah, yeah, they caught John Edwards. Big deal. Edwards lived and practiced here in Raleigh. Let's just put it this way: Rielle Hunter was only one of his herd. In other words, Edwards' affair was shooting fish in a barrel and it would have come out years beforehand had the local newspaper not had a heavy Democratic lean.

In Woods case, I am not so quick to put my faith behind their reporting. Their story only implies, and no direct quote from either one of the so-called petit chous said that Tiger was playing their most private of courses.

Perhaps Alex Rodriguez is passe' now?

Re: Guess I'm the Only Chinese Person in the World Who Doesn't Like Phil Mickelson

CharlesBoyer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:00:20 -0000

Steph,

If you sold t-shirts with that phrase in Hanzi, you might have a nice little side-business.

Okay, I kid, I kid.

Re: Guess This Is No Longer an Offensive Halloween Costume...

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:08:30 -0000

Looks like Stewart Cink to me.

I don't think of the fellow as being dress in blackface, which is childishly racist in the 21st millennium.

Re: Angry Scots Try to Sabotage Trump's Dream Course

CharlesBoyer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:09:49 -0000

This development has surely got the Trump company worried.

Or not.

Seriously, people you lost. It is going to happen. It IS happening. Act like adults, suck it up and don't be fools.

Re: Divorce, a Tradition Like No Other

CharlesBoyer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:17:11 -0000

Don't worry Hack. We'll definitely take care of you.

Re: Divorce, a Tradition Like No Other

CharlesBoyer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:07:06 -0000

I guess he's going to have to replace half of all that stuff he got at Furnitureland South.

Re: Veteran Scribe John Hawkins Victim to Conde Firing Squad

CharlesBoyer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:06:09 -0000

I agree with Gary. This is the result of the McKinsey recommendations at Conde' Nast.

While I feel for John Hawkins, I am sure that he will land on his feet and do quite well. I just hope it is very quickly for his and his family's sake. Getting RIF'd is never a pleasant experience but unfortunately one that has become part and parcel of working in corporate America.

Re: Hate Crime Directed at President Obama Scars Golf Course

CharlesBoyer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:08:21 -0000

Talk about factual errors, Court:

1. The film was British and not produced by Americans. Has Hollywood relocated to London?

2. The film was no endorsement of assassination, it was an exploration of what might happen if such an event occurred.

You might know these things if you had seen the film, read its synopsis or even did the most cursory Wikipedia search. Instead, you have couched the basis of your argument on hearsay and third-hand information, information that is incorrect.

That is readily apparent in the incorrect assertions that "Death of a President" is a Hollywood product and that it was encouraging such an event. In fact, it is a 1984-like warning about what would happen if G. W. Bush had been indeed assassinated. A draconian "Patriot Act III" was immediately passed, greatly damaging privacy and freedom. That's not a very far reach, given the rush to pass to original Patriot Act before 9/11's dust had settled.

Some ringing endorsement of assassination. Indeed.

"hate crime" unless Obama has made himself a special group under a set of bogus laws - which wouldn't surprise me at all since he has already made threats against people who speak out against him."

Really now, do you seriously want us to believe that Obama has enacted hate crime laws?

Have you forgotten that a president cannot even introduce legislation, much less create laws?

Any real threat against any president is thoroughly investigated, no matter how inconsequential it may seem. I certainly remember that the anti-war movement was looked into in the run up to the Iraqi invasion -- as it should have been. I also remember well that threats against every president were investigated in each term I can remember. There are too many Squeaky Fromme and John Hinkley types for each one that's known not to be looked into.

Re: PGA Tour Goes Into Protect Anthony Kim Mode

CharlesBoyer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:55:46 -0000

I think that the Tour was trying to protect its image as a whole, given the consistency of certain special-interest groups in making someone a poster-boy for their agenda....based mostly on innuendo.

Who knows why Robert Allenby - a journeyman at best in the big picture of The Game - felt the need to take Anthony Kim to the woodshed. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it was sanctimony. Or maybe it was the only way he could strike back in the bitterness he may have felt when AK beat him. No matter what the real reason, it was petty, unnecessary and wholly a-holish.

Re: Nice Effing Pants: Loudmouth Edition

CharlesBoyer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:51:39 -0000

Aren't effing and pants mutually exclusive? Mostly anyway.

I kid, I kid.

I am more of a classic look kind of guy. Sure, I will wear plaids, but in the more traditional colors. For others, their mileage may vary and that's fine by me.

Re: Because He Can't Have Real Human Relationships, Tiger Is BFF With Every Super Star in the World

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:51:33 -0000

Question - do all of Tiger's top athlete friends have Nike in common with him?

Re: How the LPGA's Schedule Is Looking

CharlesBoyer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:40:23 -0000

^ Or make it a 16 player match play event and call it the Michelob Ultra Light.

Seriously, I think recovering fully next year may be extremely optimistic and more probably simply unrealistic. We can hope, but I think it will take a full 2-3 years for marketing budgets to come back and for sponsors to come around.

In the meantime, the LPGA would do well to court the likes of Harris-Teeter, a Charlotte-based grocery store chain. They already sponsor some micro-tours, and could well be the type of company that would support a new LPGA event in Charlotte or someplace else in the Carolinas. There are plenty of great courses in the two major urban areas -- Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham -- and the ladies could do well in both sports-crazy markets.

That sort of event is the kind that the LPGA could use to provide more and better TV exposure which would in turn get the more nationally based sponsors interested.

Re: Introducing Golf's Newest Contraption: Bags With LCDs

CharlesBoyer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:12:36 -0000

Al Czervik had one in the 70's.

Amazing how what's old is new once again. Will there be a beer tap in it too?

Re: Inexplicably Successful Italian Comedian Is Haney's Next Project

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:52 -0000

I personally think that golf swing coaches and psychologists are really the same thing.

The first step to improving either your swing or your mind is that you have to admit a problem. Enter the swing coach or psychologist. They then show you the errors of your ways, and a better way to do things. The rest is ultimately up to you. You choose to either break the bad habits of the past or you keep them. Your choice.

Note: I specifically said psychologists and not psychiatrists. The latter are medical doctors specializing in the treatment of mental illnesses that have a biological provenance -- for example, Bipolar Disorder or Schizophrenia, two conditions that require chemical alteration of brain function. On the other hand, psychologists cannot prescribe drugs (though they do manage therapy of those on medication.)

Re: Liberty National: Paradise or Hell?

CharlesBoyer — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:38:53 -0000

True enough, but in reality, the Old Course is in the form we know it only since Old Tom Morris did his re-design in 1863. Even after that, he spent a lot of time grassing the greens and removing the thorny shrubs that once grew in the fairways.

Your point about new courses not being important tournament venues stands, however. Even when Jones tore his scorecard and walked off of the Old Course, it had already been 50-60 years since its evolutionary redesign.

Re: Liberty National: Paradise or Hell?

CharlesBoyer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:33:22 -0000

You know, neither Sam Snead nor Bobby Jones had nice things to say about the Old Course the first time they played it. Think it is a bad course?

I know there will be at least one guy that loves the place about 7:30pm Sunday.

I play on a Cupp/Kite course as a member, and I can tell you that the greens can be extremely tricky, especially when the super is in a bad mood and cuts the holes in weird places.

At the same time, our course (which is quite reminiscent of LN in some ways) gives you a number of options to play it, but you will need a good degree of precision in your approach shots if you expect to score. If you are on the wrong tier on the green (many of which are very small) then you might struggle to 3-putt.

Re: Why People Should Stop Criticizing Christina Kim's Behavior

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:39:12 -0000

It's really the same old song and dance as the last Ryder Cup: the Europeans lose on US soil and there's one or two US team members who were supposedly bad sports and ruined it all.

Horsefeathers.

Re: Wei Under Par, Brian Gay has got to step it up. I believe, he...

CharlesBoyer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:23:09 -0000

No, haven't heard anything specific, but through the years Mr. Woods has made it clear how little he appreciates playing every season in a team event.

As for Phil, his family issues are far from over, as anyone who's been around someone on chemo can tell you. I think most everyone would understand if he skipped the President's Cup...it's not the Ryder Cup, after all.

Re: Wei Under Par, Brian Gay has got to step it up. I believe, he...

CharlesBoyer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:21:52 -0000

Glover very clearly deserves the spot, and Mahan's play should put him in there as well.

But...will Couples have three or more picks? Will Woods and Mickelson demur from playing?

Re: Yang Winning the PGA Championship = US Winning the World Cup

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:59:36 -0000

Time will tell. And hopefully, you are right.

Asian golf is making great strides, but if one looked at the various nationalities of the players in the PGA Championship, you'd find that over 20 countries were represented.

To use your own analogy regarding futbol, however, the US is a nation of 240+ million people and can hardly field a competitive team of 25 top players for the World Cup. After their loss to Mexico last week, they need to win three of four to even qualify. I would rank the American chances of winning the World Cup around those of Lichenstein successfully landing men on the moon in the next decade. In other words, it ain't gonna happen because there's not enough interest.

The moral of that story is that numbers hardly equals success. In golf terms, especially in China, the ratio of people to courses makes it difficult to believe that they will be a force in the game in the next two or three generations. Yes, they might have a national program to nurture their top players, but the problem will be exposure and identifying those top players in the first place.

That leads me to believe that Korea and Japan will far surpass China in our lifetimes. That's because of the ratio of courses is better, also because there is a far more substantial middle class and finally because both countries have a long lead-time in their interests in the game.

I learned to love golf from my father, and as a result got to see and be inspired by Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus as a very small child. But at the end of the day, it was Dad's love of the game and my love of being with Dad that led him to first putting a club into my wee little hands.

I strongly suspect that's where the current generation first taking up the game is inspired -- by their parents -- far more than by television.

Re: Wei Under Par, Don’t mess with the US! Christina Kim and Michelle...

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:50:27 -0000

Sometimes we tend to forget how young many pro golfers really are, Court.

Re: Where Have All the Young Guns Gone? At Least There's Rory Mcilroy

CharlesBoyer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:55:20 -0000

While his current record is comparable to Garcia's, McIlroy seems to already be more mature in many ways than Sergio ever was, even today.

The only blemish I can think of would be his little spate of anger in the bunker at Augusta this spring. Compared to the positively immature behavior of Garcia through the years, it would appear that the two have mental makeups that are worlds apart.

Re: What are Stevie and Tiger Looking At?

CharlesBoyer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:35:02 -0000

Looks like Tiger finally had a horrible day with the putter when leading a major on the final day.

It had to happen sooner or later.

Re: Donde Esta Angel?

CharlesBoyer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:33:08 -0000

Winds will be kicking today, so we'll see if your picks have some prescience.

Re: PGA Championship Picks

CharlesBoyer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:47:58 -0000

This is the longest course ever for a major championship. The winner will NOT be the guy who hits the ball the furthest off of the tee, like every golf announcer wants you to think. No, the winner will be the fellow with the best short game this week.