Mrs. GolfBlogger is a big fan of Liz Claiborne clothing. She says that it’s great looking, classic stuff.

LizGolf is holding a contest where the winners get a trip for two to the Solheim Cup at Cooked Sticks, Indiana.

There was quite an alignment of the planets this last weekend.

Ron Streck’s victory on the Champions Tour at the Commerce Bank Championship was the 50th victory by a tour player using the Taylormade R7 Quad Driver

Ok. So someone had to win number 50. What makes it interesting is that Streck holds the honor of be being the first tour player to win a tournament using metal woods. That came at the 1981 Houston Open. His clubs? TaylorMade.

Streck’s also was one of the first two players to use metal woods, when he played with TaylorMades at the 1979 MONY Tournament of Champions.

And, with his victory, Streck became the first player to post wins on the Nationwide, PGA and Champions Tours.

Things that make you go hmmmm.

Thanks to TaylorMade’s Jason Woodmansee for the heads up on this one!

Just in time for the Open Championship: Art dot Com has a nice selection of paintings and posters from St. Andrews. I have the one titled “St Andrews Swinging” hanging over my desk.

Callaway has finally released the Big Bertha Fusion FT-3 Neutral Driver that its tour pros have been playing in recent months. Michael Campbell used it to win the US Open Championship, and Phil Mickelson and Annika Sorenstam have also driven it to wins.

The idea is that the composite head allows them to redistribute weight where its needed to shape shots.

You can read Callaway’s press release below:

Apparently, the PGA is considering developing an end-of-the-year playoff system similar to what NASCAR has done with the NEXTEL Cup.

Mark Hermann of Newsday has the right idea on this one: its a terrible idea. As he correctly points out, golf revolves around the “majors” and a playoff system would diminish all of the tradition and viewer interest built around these four events.

Far better, I think, to stick with what the PGA apparently was considering earlier: to adjust the schedule, moving the Players to May, and moving the Tour Championship up from November.

I’m sure that the impetus for the playoff system is to help golf compete against College and Pro Football for the television market, but it just isn’t going to happen. Their best bet is to get all of their premier events out of the way and hope to pack as much excitement as they can between the end of March Madness and middle of September, when the football seasons and the baseball playoffs take off.

Apparently, the PGA is considering developing an end-of-the-year playoff system similar to what NASCAR has done with the NEXTEL Cup.

Mark Hermann of Newsday has the right idea on this one: its a terrible idea. As he correctly points out, golf revolves around the “majors” and a playoff system would diminish all of the tradition and viewer interest built around these four events.

Far better, I think, to stick with what the PGA apparently was considering earlier: to adjust the schedule, moving the Players to May, and moving the Tour Championship up from November.

I’m sure that the impetus for the playoff system is to help golf compete against College and Pro Football for the television market, but it just isn’t going to happen. Their best bet is to get all of their premier events out of the way and hope to pack as much excitement as they can between the end of March Madness and middle of September, when the football seasons and the baseball playoffs take off.

Independence Day is a good time to sit back and reflect on the hard-won freedoms we enjoy here in the United States. It’s also a good time to review the key words of the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...

We spend a lot of time on this paragraph in my political science classes. If you haven’t had a civics class in a while, today is a good time to think about them.