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Tiger and Phil and Ted and Troy equals one odd week

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were headliners who left early, turning the stage over to Rod Stewart and John Bon Jovi, either of whom is better at carrying a tune than a bunker. The hired entertainment was appropriate for a Greenbrier Classic that was better heard than seen. It came down to two nonentities, Ted Potter Jr. vs. Troy Kelly, who were wrestling over a winning lottery ticket, vying in a playoff for $1,098,000. Tiger vs. Phil, meanwhile, failed spectacularly, each missing the cut. Potter, playing the weekend for the first time in his last six starts, won on the third playoff hole, defeating a 33-year-old less than two years removed from a hip replacement, a fitting finish to an odd week. It began with some early media handwringing over rumors that Woods and Mickelson might have received stipends from Greenbrier owner Jim Justice for unidentified services that would have circumvented PGA Tour rules against paying appearance fees. If Justice indeed provided incentive to the two greatest draws in American golf to venture to West Virginia, it is less a controversy than business as usual, at inflated prices. Sports Illustrated's Gary Van Sickle, a former Milwaukee sportswriter, once reported that Lee Trevino was routinely hired to participate in a corporate outing in Milwaukee two days before the first round of the Greater Milwaukee Open in which he coincidentally (or not) would hang around to play. Two decades later, Greg Norman reportedly was the recipient of similar Milwaukee largesse. Milwaukee, incidentally, wasn't alone. The Tiger-Phil rumors raised a concern that if they indeed were somehow lured to a tournament they otherwise would not have played, Mickelson for the second year in a row, it creates an uneven playing field for other tournaments vying for the game's elite that don't have the wherewithal to finance seven-figure incentives. But that would be ignoring the fact that had Tiger and Phil not played at the Greenbrier, they still weren't going to play, say, the John Deere Classic or any of the tour's other off-Broadway tournaments.

08

Jul
Sun

Gustafson proves faster is better

The kind of slow play that has plagued the U.S. Women's Open at Blackwolf Run in Kohler, Wis., this week (especially the first two days, when 156 players went off two tees in threesomes during...

07

Jul
Sat

Slow play, high scores plague Rd. 3 of the U.S. Women's Open

KOHLER, Wis.-- Beware the wrath of the USGA. After Michelle Wie shot a six-under 66 on Friday at the U.S. Women's Open, and second-round leader Suzann Pettersen told the media that the Blackwolf Run rough...

06

Jul
Fri

Pettersen oversleeps, takes U.S. Women's Open lead

KOHLER, WIS. --Suzann Pettersen had a rough morning on Friday. "I thought it was awfully light in the room when I woke up, at 6:40, an hour late," she said after finishing her second round...

06

Jul
Fri

Michelle Wie finds her game at the U.S. Women's Open

KOHLER, Wis. - Believe it or not, it was more than a decade ago that 12-year-old Michelle Wie made her LPGA debut, missing the cut at the 2002 Takefuji Classic after earning her way into...

06

Jul
Fri

Travel Report: 99 holes in Ireland

Ashley Mayo is not just a colleague, she's a close friend and co-leader of the social media strategy for Golf Digest and Golf World. Mayo just completed Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and among other...

06

Jul
Fri

The U.S. Women's Open: What to look for in Rd. 2

KOHLER, WIS.-- Day 1 of the 67th U.S. Women's Open at Blackwolf Run offered many surprises, not the least of which was the number of American players (three) at the top of the leaderboard at...

06

Jul
Fri

Fitness Friday: Ben Shear strengthens your core

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he discusses how the core muscles affect the golf swing, and what fitness expert Ben...

05

Jul
Thu

Thompson carries weight of country on her 17-year-old shoulders

Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesKOHLER, Wis. -- The fireworks that ignited the Fourth of July sky on the eve of the first round of the U.S. Women's Open were nowhere near as hot as the furnace...

05

Jul
Thu

Thompson carrying weight of country on her 17-year-old shoulders

Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesKOHLER, Wis. -- The fireworks that ignited the Fourth of July sky on the eve of the first round of the U.S. Women's Open were nowhere near as hot as the furnace...