This year, Golf Digest is adding two new mid-level players to its panel of Hot List club testers. To apply, visit this link.

Will the trials and tribulations never end for John Daly? In the latest installment of the saga, Big John says his wife atttacked him with a knife.

This is the same wife who has served time on charges related to an apparent gambling ring. Her parents also were indicted in the same conspiracy.

I think John needs to give up on the whole marriage thing. It’s apparently not his strong suit and some people just aren’t meant to be married.

Carlys Club is an organization supporting kids and cancer research in Western New York. And it’s got a very unusual fundraiser going. Participants in the Chip In For Carlys Club event will play 100 holes of golf in a single day. Like many similar events—bowl-a-thons, walk-a-thons, etc., the Chip In Participants are signing up sponsors for their efforts.

Ronald Montesano, the author of a golf blog over at Travel Golf is one of the participants. You can sponsor him by going directly to this page.

In an interview earlier this week, I heard Padraig Harrington say that—aside from the Majors—the tournament he most wanted to win was the Irish Open.

He’s done just that.

Congratulations. It’s always nice to see someone fulfill a dream.

As a girls golf coach, I’m in favor of anything that promotes girls golf. Golfer Girl magazine is a new publication aimed at junior players. The 72 page first issue has a print run of 10,000.

Hayley Milbourn, on her way to winning her third straight Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association title, turned herself in for hitting a wrong ball and finished out of the competition.

She had a nine shot lead when finished her second and final round and did not discover the mistake until she was putting here equipment away.

“I could have [gotten away with it],” Milbourn said in a Baltimore Sun article. “But I would have been disgusted with myself if I would have just put the ball back in my bag and taken the trophy.”

I teach high school students and sometimes get frustrated with their general lack of morals. But stories like this give me hope for the future. Ms. Milbourn exemplifies the honor and integrity of the game of golf.

“I have a lot more golf to play,” Milbourn said. “This is not my last tournament in my life. It was just one tournament. It doesn’t define the rest of my life. I have a pretty heavy conscience, and that’s what led me to make the decision I did. It’s always good to do what your conscience tells you to do.”

I’m going to give that girl a GolfBlogger Good Golfing Award.

I missed this earlier, but Tom Lehman has been awarded the first Byron Nelson Prize. According to the prize’s website, the Byron Nelson Prize, will be presented to a person or organization in the golf world who exemplifies the ideals of “giving back” that Nelson personified. The Byron Nelson Prize recipient will receive a $100,000 contribution to the charity of their choice.

Lehman and his wife have raised millions for the Children’s Cancer Research Fund at the University of Minnesota.

A second program, the Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Awards, will start in 2008 and will focus on encouraging young golfers. Nelson was famous for his encouragement of juniors and young professionals. It’s been said that he wrote more than forty letters to a young Scott Verplank, who this year won Byron Nelson’s namesake tournament.  Nelson also brought Woods to this tournament as a 17-year-old amateur in 1993, Sergio Garcia made his U.S. professional debut in the 1999 tournament and Justin Leonard played twice as an amateur.

With the Byron Nelson Junior Golf Awards, junior golfers from around the world will be identified by an international panel of professional golfers and golf officials with the finalists invited to Dallas each year for the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

There’s also a Byron Nelson Award which goes to top collegiate golfers for their success on the course, in the classroom and in the community.