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Both Titleist and Rory have said they are parting ways. Everyone is assuming he is switching to Nike.

The intent of the player doesn't matter. The judgement of the referee does. See yesterdays football game for an example of intent not mattering. The coach through a challenge flag to make sure a play was reviewed. I am sure he didn't intend on getting a 15 yard penalty and not having the play reviewed. That rule is as dumb as any in golf. Again the problem here has nothing to do with the leave moving or not. It has to do if you realize you submitted an incorrect scorecard what do you do? There is no judgement calls involved about if he did or did not hit a leaf. It is simply he signed for a score 1 less than what he shot.

I thought golf was about developing business/political connections to get ahead in life?

Well that is because golf isn't a sport I am not sure but I am guessing sports like bowling also don't have referees. And intent doesn't matter in any sport. If you told the umpire you didn't mean to bean the other player in the head, it doesn't matter. They runner still gets his base. Quote:

Someone with a diesal truck needs to take a video from the seat with a tripod so we can see what the baseline is. I am not saying electric car or Prius's are for you or anyone in particular. Personally I think electric cars are still 10 years (one more doubling of capacity and 1 or 2 more halvings of cost) away from making sense for a huge chunk of people. What I am saying is I don't get why people feel threatened by them. If it doesn't fit your needs move on. And be glad that someone else is buying them since by lowering oil consumption, they are lowering your gas prices. Picking between a camry and a prius doesn't affect me one bit. Both are about the same size and will have about the same result when you crash into me. And neither one is going to win a beauty award. Are prius owners smug about their fuel efficienes? Yep. But so is the 911 guy about his accelleration and handling, the f150 guy about his towing, the minivan guy about his people carrying, and so on. Maybe it is that I am just old enough to remember people complaining about various models through the years. In the 70s it was stationwagon drivers, in the 80s it was the minivan mom, the 90s had the SUVs, and the 00's have the prius.

The video I watched had jitter but I would expect that from a camera on a tripod. They are in a vibrating truck after all. It didn't have any wild pans, times where the subject wasn't framed pretty well and all the other features of my home videos. I might also just suck at taking videos. I find it amazing the reaction prius's and electric cars get. If you don't want one, ignore them for the next 15 years. No one will care. Just think every gallon of gas they don't burn, is one more for your car. The Tesla complaints the worst. Someone actually made a electrical car that is right at the edge of practicality (the 300mi range is good enough for most peoples 99% use but that model is insanely expensive) and what most people end up complaining about is that you can't buy a 60k (price out an eClass or a 5 series for what a gas version would cost) car for 20k. And yes even if you only charge you car from a coal power plant , the ev comes out ahead of most cars (prius and the like do better, sub 30mpg cars do worse. The exact number depends a bit on the study and how you value different types of pollution)

It is though pretty hard to hold the phone pretty steady, keep the subject in the frame, and not have the subject comment on the fact that you are taping her. This video is right at the edge where if you told me this was a film score project, I would believe you. And if you told me it was the real I would believe it also. All that being said, it is funny video.

I am trying to decide if this was staged or not. I mean who is running a camera in the parking lot? On the other hand I think I have met this lady....

I think you will find that the small muscles contribute a lot to the golf swing in a supporting role. I have no clue if they contribute more to th eproprioception system than the large ones but in pretty much any brain activity some people do better than others. I don't know what dan counts as hours. Does an hour in the gym count? What about 30 mins stretching at night? When you play a 5 hour round do you count that as 5 hours or 30 mins since the other 4:30 is spent walking or standing around. I am not sure if you can really put in 2000 hours of real golf practice in a year (~6 hours a day) and be effective. Sure in theory you can swing the driver 500+ times in a day but if you swinging on tired muscles, it might be counter productive. But at the end of the day, your right. Dan isn't outworking anyone. Everyone at Q school has been putting in 3+ hours a day for the past 10 years. Maybe Dan is working smarter....

That only works for certain drugs. For things like steroids, HGH, and the like you need out of competition testing. And yes I have no doubt that low doses of steroids will help your golf game. Anything that lets you train harder without getting injuried is a big plus at the top levels.

I wouldn't look at the week to week stuff. Handicaps will go up/down and stay the same even as you get better at golf. The questions is where he will be in next July (probably something like 5k hours). Will he be a "real" scratch type guy who can start showing up at US Open & US amateur type qualifying without totally embrassing (no he wouldn't be competive but shooting something like a 75 when the qualifiers shoot 67 would at least put him in the neighborhood) himself or will be be a country club 6 guy who shoots 90s in tournaments? I think he still has a couple of long game strokes (he has only been hitting the driver for about a year) that will not be that hard but it isn't clear to me that he is a better putter/chipper now than he was 9 months ago.

If you let it linger long enough you eventually get to the point where you are unable to grasp thing without pain. Note that it is called golfers elbow (and tennis elbow on the other side) but there are a lot of repeative things (mousing on the computer, driving , lifting just about anything) that also cause the injury. If treated when it first appears, you can generally clear it up in a week or two. What most people do is just ignore it. After with a little icing and some ibuprofin, you can keep on doing what your doing for a months and most of the times it clears up by itself. However in the cases when it doesn't clear up, it then takes several months to clear up.

I think you are being generous. Tiger turns 37 before the masters which means he will have 20 more majors before 42. Yes I am aware that guys have won majors after 4 but if you look at the past 30 years the number is very, very low. That being said, Tiger winning 25% of the majors over the next 4 years doesn't seem crazy. His game this year had a lot of moments of brilliance. Replace a couple of bad rounds with a couple of good ones and he would have won 2 majors this year. That is a heck of a lot better than last year. Quote:

You probably should stop playing for a couple weeks to heal up. If you don't after one of the sessions (doesn't matter if it is a round or practice) you will eventually tweak it so it doesn't get better after 5 days of rest. In general the treatment is stretching, strengthing, and maybe a bit of pressure massage. Other things you can do to help prevent it are 1) The strap which in theory takes a load of the tendon 2) graphite shafts absorb a lot of the stress 3) Talk to a pro to see if you are doing something in your swing that stress the joint. 4) Avoid matts like the plague unless your a major picker I have been fighting this all summer and I really regret not taking a week off when it first came on. Now after 6 weeks of no golf and 4 weeks of physical therapy, I feel I am just about back. The good news is that I am a lot better putter....

It wasn't just 100 hrs. He spent the first 1000 hours or so just doing putting, pitching and chipping. I think he would have been better off spending 250 of those hours on the full swing. Ask your self what gives better results: 1 7 hour block of practice or 7 1 hour blocks of practice over 1 week? Time matters both in total number of hours and the time period those hours are over. The other thing is that practicing 1 footers was just stupid. What he should have been practicing aiming the putter at the target, hitting the center of the face, and then distance control. At some point you need to crank out a lot of short putts for confidence but the idea of starting at 1 ft and moving back once you become a "pro" at the shorter distances isn't something that I think is an efficient use of time. Is this the reason he isn't going to make it? I don't think so since I doubt these add up to more than a stroke or 2 and I expect him to be 4 or so shots away from the pga level.

That part is left off in all the reports. It would be one thing to learn at 9pm that you scored it wrong and call the next morning. It would be another to learn that in the parking lot and wait 6 days to come forward because after 5 days you have decided you can't live with being a cheater. Quote:

How can you not know what your voting for? At least for federal level votes (good luck at the local stuff) not being able to spend 15 mins to pick which guy matches your current world view is pathetic. I am fine with you not voting. But you are just as responsible for this government as the people that voted. FWIW the rich vote democratic. See every Urban area on the map and they are all blue in addition to being higher income and educatd. The super rich (.1%) vote republican. The poor vote all over the map. See most of the red states for examples of poverty voting republican. People tend to vote social issues first and then economic ones.

Not calling the penalty would have been fine. He would still be playing. But calling the penalty and then not doing it properly (2 strokes not 1) results in signing an inaccurate score card. His caddie and the other players should have helped him out though. If you want to be judgmental, the guy is not very honorable. He made a decision to assess the penalty. Once he made that choice, when he learned the penalty was 2 strokes not 1 he needed to DQ himself right away. None of this praying and sleeping on it crap. Imagine though if one the 6 players who got in because of this DQ make it on to the PGA tour. That would be one lucky break.

That clearly best team lost at home. On a good day they could beat anyone. On a bad day, they could lose to anyone in the top 5. LSU was clearly the best team at the end of last season. I have no clue if OSU, Stanford, or Alabama was the #2. OSU and Stanford never got a chance to prove it.

Maybe Adam should switch to a belly putter. As Ernie could tell him it sure does help the nerves on Sunday I sort of assume they are just going to ban the belly putter and keep letting the old guys use the long putters.

I think there is a slight difference between 3.5 years and 5 months. Bad news for Dan http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121114-gladwells-10000-hour-rule-myth . The top music guys have put in 25k hours of training.

I don't think this is the main reason in this case. Ks St was ranked #15 in week 4 while ND was #11. Why did Ks St pass ND? Because they played OK before ND did. If ND plays OK they get the big boost AND even more important Ks St doesn't one for knocking off OK. Outside of the top 5, there is a lot more flexibility about bumping teams up and down after big wins. On the other hand if ND plays unranked Michigan St , they are unlikely to vault from #20 to #11. The moral of the story is pick the order you play your opponents carefully. It is really too bad Oh St is on probation this year. Having another undefeated team with a weak schedule would have added to the BCS fun. Quote:

What I am saying is 4 hours of instruction from a local pro over 1 month with 3 or 4 hours of practice in between lessons is going to help your game more than 4 hours of all at once instruction at some resort and then going out and practicing for 20 hours.

I would say no course is worth the money. I am sure the instruction is decent (well not sure but willing to give the benefit of the doubt) but in general 4 hours of lessons over 1 or 2 months is worth a heck of a lot more than 4 hours all at once with someone you will never see again if you are trying to improve your golf game.

I would be fine voting them #1. I don't think they are the best team in the country (I think in a neutral field game they might be 6 or 7 on my list) but at least they schedule teams (other than maybe Navy) who have a chance to be decent. Now a lot of the teams are down this year but schools like purdue (heck even in this crappy year they took OhSt to overtime), Miami, BYU, Mich, Mich St, BC, and Pitt are decent schools every 3 or 4 years at worst. I am not sure if Missouri St, North Texas, Ark St, and Tennessee Tech have broken the top 25 in the last 50 years. I will not even talk about the SEC and the FCS schools they schedule. Alabama should be embrassed to play Western Carolina. A simple rule: You play a FCS team, you are excluded from the BCS.