Archive for June, 2006

Monday recap: Pettersson, Mickelson, Sorenstam

Yazan: mulligan | 05 June 2006 | Comments Off on Monday recap: Pettersson, Mickelson, Sorenstam
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Carl Pettersson (from Sweden via England and North Carolina) won the Memorial with some absolutely amazing putting. The guy must have been averaging around 25 putts per round. The win allows Carl to go the U.S. Open and skip today’s 36-hole sectional. Michelle Wie, of course, is out in Canoe Brooks in NJ today, trying […]

Memorial: holy crap

Yazan: mulligan | 04 June 2006 | Comments Off on Memorial: holy crap
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I thought I had heard it all, until I read the AP’s story of the following defiling of Muirfield Village. This does not speak well of some crazy individual in Dublin, Ohio. DIRTY PROBLEM (AP reports here)Phil Mickelson returned Saturday morning to resume the rain-delayed second round when he noticed the hole on the sixth […]

New "bunker" mentality at Memorial: Jack’s rakes + sand bunkers + no advance warning = player bickering

Yazan: mulligan | 02 June 2006 | Comments Off on New "bunker" mentality at Memorial: Jack’s rakes + sand bunkers + no advance warning = player bickering
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Mulligan has already posted on the bunker controversy at the Memorial here. The facts seem to bear out mulligan’s point, I almost hate to admit. As the Columbus Dispatch reported today (here), Joe Ogilvie is one of four players on the PGA Tour policy board. “It’s a communication issue,” the Lancaster native said. “I don’t […]

take a mulligan: PGA needs rules on bunker rakes at Memorial

Yazan: mulligan | 02 June 2006 | Comments Off on take a mulligan: PGA needs rules on bunker rakes at Memorial
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OK, I think Jack Nicklaus may be taking things too far — at least on his own initiative — to combat the improvement of technology. He’s called upon the Amish in Ohio to make him special rakes that leave furrows in the bunkers, in order to make the ball fall within them and reduce the […]

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