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Tiger Yang. Y.E. Woods. PGA Championship Open Thread
Tiger's on the verge of bed-shitting but there's still time for him to make adjustments and continue to humble and humiliate all comers. [PGA] (Photo: WUP)...

No Sense Waiting Til Tomorrow To Start Engraving The Wanamaker Trophy
Consider this your official PGA Championship open thread. Is it too early to declare this Tiger's two-day victory lap? After Federer's and Nadal's early exits yesterday, we need confirmation that gods still walk among us. [PGA]...

And Now A Musical Interlude From John Daly
The big guy dropped out of the PGA Championship after one round (citing a bad back) and then dropped this smash hit single (citing the chords from "Every Rose Has Its Thorn.") Spoiler!: It's about being sad. [Devil Ball Golf]...

Golfers To Trade Cash For Gold
The IOC is planning to include golf and rugby in the 2016 Olympics. Finally! All of the world's best golfers can compete against each other in one event, just like every single weekend of the year. [MSNBC]...

Rich People Golf While You're At Work
The PGA Championship is under way. Follow along with the online leaderboard and it's almost like being outside! (Your cubicle has never felt so small and dark.) [PGA.com/ShaneBacon]...

Tiger Woods, David Feherty's Soiled Underpants, And You
The PGA gas scandal has taught us a lot about ourselves and about humanity in general, but there is one deeper unexplored question: Why is this the first we're learning about Tiger Woods' obsession with farts?...

Fart-Gate Scandal Blown Wide Open
After what seems like decades of secrecy and lies, America demands to know: Who cut the cheese? Now we may finally have our answer. The conspiracy goes far deeper than any of us could have imagined....and it really stinks....

Fart-Gate Officially The Dumbest Sports "Scandal" Of The Year
So this is actually a thing now? Several major media outlets devoted real newsprint to the mysterious case of Tiger Woods’ non-flatulence. Lawyers got involved. Official statements have been issued. Answers have been demanded. How did this come to be?...

Mysterious, Gaseous Noise Invades The Buick Open
Unless CBS had a special microphone right next to his ass, it doesn't seem plausible that Woods could be the culprit. Yes, just a few seconds before blast-off, we see Woods loosening his hamstrings by kicking his legs up behind him, followed by the alleged fart, then a shot of he and caddy Steve Wil...

Food And Drink For Thought With Natalie Gulbis
The Evian Masters offered car service and breakfast and a private golf critique on the Hudson with Natalie Gulbis, and when someone offers a town car, an omelet bar and golf lessons with a star, it's generally polite to accept....

Tom Watson And His New Eyes Take Early Lead At British Open
Watson shot a 65 in the first round. Others in contention include Mark O'Meara and Mark Calcavecchia. No, you didn't accidentally get sucked into a wormhole. [Fanhouse]...

The LPGA Continues To Ratchet Up The Crazy
The next time I'm hacking away on my local muni, I'm going to pretend like I'm snowboarding, because that's what Italian golfer Giulia Sergas does. Imaginary frostbite nipping at my windwhipped nose, I'll fit right in with the LPGA....

There Will Be No Lady Tiger In Red This Sunday
Tiger Woods' niece, Cheyenne Woods, missed the cut by three strokes in her first LPGA tournament this weekend. Just 18-years-old, she qualified for the tournament on a sponsor's exemption. Wonder why. Now tweet about it, please. [AP]...

The Donald Trumps The LPGA Championship
"Ever since opening his Trump National-Bedminster golf club four years ago, Donald Trump has been angling for a major championship or tour event.... Trump received his first major championship offer: the LPGA Championship. He turned it down." [Star-Ledger]...

Rocco Mediate Not Quite Tiger
Rocco Mediate follows in Tiger's footsteps, right onto the water [Devil Ball]...

It's U.S. Open Week And Everyone Needs Takeouts, So...
...let's write about how hard putting is. That hacker on your local muni, the one with the yips? Not so different from the winner at Bethpage Black, if they ever play. They worry about words like joule, though. [WSJ]...

The LPGA's Melting Pot Of The Future, TODAY!
The ethnic composition of womens golf is what the US will be in 2042, when Michelle Wie will have a really good feeling about winning her first major. [Waggle Room]...

It's Been A Rough Week For The Birds
Those damn birdies. When will they learn to stay away from sporting events? This just in: Ahn Shi-hyun, a golfer at the LPGA Championship, smacked a drive into a robin, which immediately burst into "a puff of feathers." [The Guardian]...

He Said, She Said With Sherrie And John Daly
John Daly has suddenly reformed into golf's good guy, says his maybe-soon-to-be-restrained wife, and she's not going to stand for it. Also, she "would like you to know that she did not stab her husband." Duly noted. [Commercial Appeal]...

140 Characters, And In English, Please
This is Natalie Gulbis. She's on Twitter. And if you're jonesing for some, um, behind-the-scenes updates from the LPGA Tour, then she's worth a follow, because the LPGA believes the sport will become more appealing if its players start tweeting from the course. Yep, that'll do it. [Bloomberg, Pop Vo...