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...Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Some American pros who have qualified for the tournament will give it a miss, preferring to rest at home and not spend travel money on a mere chance at history. Maybe, if so inspired, they?ll take a shot at the pot in the PGA Tour event in Endicott, N.Y. The B.C. Open suffers the annual misfortune of being held simultaneous with the British Open, which means it will never have Tiger or Phil or Davis in fold. But it also means it gets a host of strong mid-level Yanks who realize that with cats...
...looked at the golfing calendar. It showed that the B.C. Open, of which he was now defending champion, was to be played on the same weekend as the British Open, for which he had not qualified. I feel confident in saying that 99 out of 100 PGA Tour players would have gone back to the B.C. Open, no question. They would have gone with the confidence that they play well there, and that they stood an excellent chance of a large payday since the Woodses of the world would be in the auld country, scything gorse...
Golf may market itself as the Tiger-ized sport for all shades of fun-loving Americans, but it's still got a few cranky old geezers. Following the Supreme Court's decision allowing CASEY MARTIN to use a golf cart in PGA competition (Justices Thomas and Scalia dissented, speaking of cranky...), there was grumbling from several pro players about the unfairness of it all. "I think we ought to take them all out and play golf," said Jack Nicklaus of the Justices. "I think they'd change their minds." Martin, 28, who suffers from a rare circulatory disorder that...
CASEY MARTIN Court okays golfer's use of cart in PGA events. Will help on green, but can he get through Woods...
...Martin' agent says his client will ask for sponsor's exemptions (meaning he won't have to qualify) at a handful of PGA Tour events this year - presumably supposing that Martin can be sold as a crowd-drawing curiosity for how he plays golf, if not for how well...