PGA Golf Talk

It was a day for the youngsters at the 2010 Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona with twenty-eight year old Hunter Mahan outlasting twenty-one year old Rickie Fowler. Mahan has been playing really great golf the last two years on the PGA tour, but hasn’t been able to win a tournament before last Sunday. Finishing sixth at the U.S. Open and tenth at the Masters last year, it was a matter of time before Mahan lifted another trophy on the PGA tour. His last win prior to the Phoenix Open was in 2007 when he took home the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut. Mahan did not win without incident on Sunday, as he found crack in his driver early on his day. Having to get the rules committee to allow his girlfriend to go retrieve another driver from his car, Mahan was able to avoid penalty helping him claim the $1,080,000 winner’s prize. It doesn’t hurt that she’s also a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Sounds like a keeper Hunter!

When Michelle Wie walks onto the course later this spring, she will have gotten there by the intervention of a company, her PR company. The William Morris Agency has represented her since she came into the pro sport when she was a teenager. Now she’s decided to start somethign new with a new PR company. Signing with IMG, she expects to start fresh and get a new feeling for the game. But she doesn’t seem to have had any problems with William Morris, but just wanted to switch. She’s changed a lot about her game and had a lot of interest in changing her style of swing and get over her more recent injuries. Keep an eye on this one for a special season this year.