PGA Golf Talk

It all began with news about John Daly consuming alcoholic drinks when attending a PGA Tour event last March. He was seen drinking under a hospitality tent. This piece of news was apparently reported by his golf instructor Butch Harmon, who then quit being the troubled golfer’s teachers. As a result, Daly has had numerous of his profitable contracts canceled. He then went on to attend a press conference at the Spanish Open held in Seville, Spain and in that event, he stated that Harmon has already taken back what he said and duly apologized to Daly.

Harmon, on the other hand, refuted his claim and said that he would never retract what was being said about Daly. He also revealed that Daly had beseeched him to go on the Golf Channel and make a live apology because his livelihood was affected. Harmon refused and said that he wishes Daly all the best in his future endeavours.

Tiger Woods will be out of golf courses for a month due to a knee surgery performed on his left knee to correct the cartilage damage. The legendary player has undergone the second surgery on the same knee within five years. The operation was performed by Thomas Rosenberg, who did the first surgery in December 2002 at the Park City in Utah. Woods will have to miss some of the prestigious tournaments like Players Championship this year but he is hopeful that he will be able to play the U.S Open which will start from June 12^th at Torrey Pines.

Tiger Woods is confident that he will be able to handle the situation as he has gone through this process earlier also. The Swing Coach of Woods Hank Haney said that though Woods was having lot of trouble with his knee, it didn’t affect his play a bit. The PGA tour event commissioner said that he is disappointed as Woods will not be able to compete in some PGA golf events.

Boo Weekley managed to defend his first PGA title, winning the $5.5 million dollar Heritage Classic merely by firing a par 71 during last Sunday’s game. The American golfer showed the crowd what he was made of when he took the lead with three marvelous strokes. Ironically, spectators boo-ed loudly as a show of support, not in jest, to reflect Weekley’s unusual first name. He dove through the round of five birdies and five bogeys to complete the blustery Sunday game on 15-under par 269. Surprisingly, he commented that he was not at his best and did not hit optimally well.To date, Weekley is the first repeat winner to triumph on the Heritage Classic event and with this win, he is sure to be talk of the town. The only other players who managed this feat was Payne Stewart (1989 and 1990) who has since passed away and Davis Love (1991 and 1992).

It was a record of sorts last Sunday at the 2008 Augusta Masters PGA golf tournament as Trevor Immelman became the first South African to win a Master’s in 30 years with a three shot victory. The 29 year old South African played some astonishing golfing shots to stay putt on top and waded off the swirling winds at the Augusta masters to adorn the green jacket which has been his childhood dream. Immelman said that he was determined to hang in there till the last shot and decided to take one shot at a time.

Immelman said that he was proud of his efforts at the Augusta Masters and was honored to receive the green jacket from last year’s champion Zach Johnson. Immelman was very happy when his childhood hero Gary Player left a telephone message stating the confidence that Player had in Immelman winning the tournament after the third round. The talk of the town and world champion golfer Tiger Woods had to settle for the second place at the Masters.

PGA of America launches PGA Profinder, a new feature in their site that aims to further connect PGA to the public, thus making it more accessible and user friendly for all who visit the website.

PGA.com will offer PGA Profinder, a new online searchable directory that lets visitors access all PGA Professionals and PGA-staffed facilities.

Every ardent golf fan will gain the ability to use this cutting edge online tool to search for as well as locate PGA Professionals and facilities so as to find golfing instructions, golfing clinics, events, leagues, tournaments and generally golf playing opportunities. They are free to search via ZIP codes, golf courses, PGA Professional’s name or city. All in all, a grand total of 28,000 PGA Professionals and over 11,000 PGA-staffed facilities are listed on PGA ProFinder.

Next up, another feature will also be introduced in the website. The PGA Golf Instruction Video Series DVDs will be sold. The series will feature PGA Teachers of the Year Laird Small, Peter Krause and Bill Forest, who were world renowned golf players and instructors.

Is the Masters overhyped this year?

Golf guru Tiger Woods finishes second round Masters at 1-under and trails by seven shots. He took a risky path down the tenth fairway en route to the final hole, and as he did so, hundreds of fans have already packed up their folding seats and headed back home after earlier surrounding the 18th green.

Things took an unexpected turn when 36-hole leader Trevor Immelman performed the best at the tournament with the best start ever this year, adding another 4-under 68 to create a one shot lead over Brandt Snedeker. Earlier on he was hospitalized in South Africa and was recovering from a benign tumor which doctors successfully removed from his diaphragm.

The boring game ended when Woods finally strut his stuff on the green, escaped with par on the final hole when he drove into the trees. He managed to hit a low hook off the pine straw and into the tenth fairway. In the end, Woods made the 8-footer for par and a 71 much to his fans’ delight.

There were over 500 attendees who came to watch the women golfers perform at the women’s play golf American day that was on March 30. The day commemorates the contribution of women in the growth of golf. Officials said that the turnout has exceeded their expectation and they are hopeful that the number of attendees would be even more in the next women’s play golf America day.

 20 professionals introduced the game to a gathering of women. It gave them a good exposure of the game. Rick Martino, PGA director of instruction gave instructions of putting, full swing as well as chipping in a free clinic. The clinic made the attendees aware that they had to understand the instructions of the professionals properly. Callaway golf provided a demonstration area to the team. It also offered the latest products that it had including a range of Big Bertha i-brid irons and FT-i driver. Many women golfers were present including Janet Ortega, Suzy Whaley, Erika Larkin, Le Ann Finger, Stephanie Jennings, and Julie Peluso.

Ernie Els will be out of the golfing scene for two weeks as he is suffering from virus and will be taking part in the Masters only. Els said that he was very disappointed on not participating at the Shell Houston Open and wanted to play this tournament very badly so as to get in proper shape for the Masters. He said that he had a talk with his doctors and they advised him to stay away from golf for a couple of weeks to get rid of the virus.

Els was planning to play five out of the six PGA tour games before the Masters but will now be playing only in three games. He had recently won the Honda Classic golf tournament in Florida and thereby registered his first victory in US soil in over three and a half years. He did not take part in the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament as well and cited then that he was suffering from fatigue.