Golf’s a strange game, and the Arizona Republic offers the proof in a trio of stories.

My favorite of the three is about how Ted Purdy ended up shopping for clothes at a 24-hour Walgreens during the MCI Heritage.

The humble tee has gone through a lot of tinkering lately. One of those that I’ve written about before is the Brush-T.

Now the Sabre Tee comes along.

The idea of this is that it positions the ball back away from the stem of the tee,  allowing you to hit the ball first before hitting the tee. The manufacturer claims this offers less resistance and greater distance. Its also got a tether cord so you don’t lose the things. (This is a good idea. A couple of years ago, I bought some newfangle plastic tees that I promptly lost when they popped into the air after I hit them.)

I guess that the tee is the last frontier of golf technology.

Talk about a bad lie.

In an article in Golf Observer, Keith Lowe breaks down this weeks’s possibilities with the World Golf Rankings. And it looks as though its going to be a two man battle: the difference between second and third is as large as its been in almost two years.

Unfortunately for Vijay, even another win this week won’t move him ahead of Woods.

When I was strictly a pub links player, I used to tote all of my golf gear around in the back of my car. Balls would rattle around ... ball mark repair tools would get lost ...

I wish that I’d had this trunk mate organizer.