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Okay, Now I'm Teed Off The Unmitigated Gall -- Adam J. Bernay May 23, 2003 It amazes me. It just amazes me. Annika Sorenstam walks into a men's Professional Golf Association tournament, shoots one over par her first round, four over par her second round, which is tying for 95th place...and it is mega-news. Funny, I thought this was about allowing women to compete like the men do. When was the last time you heard national news about a golfer finishing that poorly? Yes, I said poorly. She is in 95th place out of a field of around a hundred....

Annika Sorenstam made modern history this past week. She wasn’t the first woman to play a PGA men’s event, but she was the first since many decades ago to do it. In reality, the Colonial is a professional golfer’s event. At first, I derided her for seeking to play the Colonial event, seeking to compete with the men … but I was wrong and she proved me wrong. What Annika did had a lot of controversy attached to it. Male and female golfers were perplexed, and people who don’t even haunt the links were at odds over the spectacle. "Annika...

<p>Sorenstam wipes away the tears after missing the cut.</p> <p>FORT WORTH, Texas -- Anika Sorenstam walked off the 18th green with tears in her eyes as she missed the cut at the PGA Colonial on Friday.</p> <p>"I'm living a dream that I want to live and I'm doing what I want to do." Sorenstam said, as she wiped her eyes. "Why the tears come is because, I don't know, I didn't want it to end."</p>

Associated Press Thursday, May 22, 2003; 2:51 PM FORT WORTH, Texas - Annika Sorenstam showed she can play with the men, but she had a disappointing finish to her first-round 71 at the Colonial. Sorenstam, the first woman in 58 years to play on the PGA Tour, shot 1-over par after she bogeyed her last hole. Her historic tour debut before a cheering gallery included one birdie and two three-putt bogeys. Patrick Sheehan leads the event at 5-under. Of the 55 others who played morning rounds, 35 shot par or better, ahead of Sorenstam. "I've been nervous all day. Obviously,...

Martha? Martha Burk? Have you heard? One of the gals will play with the boys. The Big Boys. You have heard, right? You pay attention to such things, don't you? 'Cause women and golf — they're like peas in a pod to you, aren't they? Two things that go together like white on rice, as a friend of mine likes to say. She's not very interested in where or with whom women play golf, but you sure are. Aren't you? Because with Annika Sorenstam — just about the best female golfer on our side of the tee right now —...

LPGA player Annika Sorenstam will be teeing off shortly in a men's PGA event at the Colonial Country Club [the first time in 60 years this has happened]Live shot for shot coverage as long as she is in contention to make the cut on USA Networks, PGA Radio is free today for those cubicle bound and wanting live update (link included)

PGA Tour rookies Dean Wilson and Aaron Barber are about to enter the spotlight without getting into contention. They're playing with Annika Sorenstam the first two rounds at Colonial. Sorenstam, the first woman to compete on the PGA Tour in 58 years, was drawn out of the third category of players reserved for those who haven't won or finished in the top 125 on the money list. Names were selected randomly by a computer. Her group will start on the 10th tee at 8:58 a.m. Thursday, and from the first tee at 1:43 p.m. Friday. Starting early in the first...

Why much of the golf world is teed off at Annika Sorenstam She's the best. But that's not enough for her teed-off critics. Sorenstam steps into a man's world Sorenstam's the best. But that's far from enough for her critics But that isn't enough for her critics Sorenstam coming to PGA event with political baggage Sorenstam is coming to PGA event with plenty of baggage In Sorenstam golf brouhaha, questions abound When being the best may not be good enough She's the best. But is that good enough -- for anybody?

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 Updated: May 15, 9:14 AM ET Sorenstam: Singh entitled to his opinion Associated Press GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Annika Sorenstam doesn't think of herself as a pioneer, and she isn't listening to Vijay Singh. Whatever happens next week in the Colonial, the first woman in 58 years to play in a PGA Tour event says she just wants to see how she stacks up against the world's best. "I'm testing myself, but I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody,'' she said Wednesday. "That's not why I'm doing this. This is for myself. ... I'm coming...

Tiger Woods says Vijay Singh was wrong to object to Annika Sorenstam playing on the America men's tour next week. Sorenstam will become the first woman to play on the men's tour since Babe Zaharias, who qualified for the 1945 Los Angeles Open, at next week's Colonial Tournament. Singh was reported to have said he would withdraw from the tournament if drawn against Sorenstam, although he has since denied the attack. "It's unfortunate Vijay said that - very unfortunate," said Woods, who will miss the Texan tournament while he continues his recuperation from knee surgery in December. "I don't think...

<p>Jeff Sluman tees it up low, muttering that he's not really warmed up, then uncorks a soaring arc that seems to accelerate into overdrive, then drops gently onto the green up ahead.</p> <p>And why wouldn't he? He was 15th on the PGA Tour's money list in 2002, thanks in large part to the fact that he's deadly with short irons: He led the Tour in Par-Three Performance (with an average score of 2.94 per hole). Ranked No. 42 on the money list so far this year, he's one of the elite pros whom millions of lesser golfers regard with wonderment and awe.</p>

<p>When the leader of an American institution looks out his window and sees Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations, the New York Times and the Rev. Jesse Jackson all blowing their horns, like Jericho the walls soon come tumbling down. At least in most cases.</p>

Normally, FReepers are forced to sit on the sidelines as the idiocies of liberals, government employees and foreign affairs unfold. All too often we are frustrated when the mainstream media ignores major anti-Clinton stories. This time, we can be in the thick of things and get the truth out from the very beginning. We can force the media to pay attention to a scandal that will make Monica look miniscule. Why? Because this story is tied directly to current events and war in SWA. We know from reliable sources that (new book from former Clinton military aide) that during the...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Tiger Woods announced on his website Sunday that he will not play in next week's Dubai Desert Classic due to the threat of an impending war in nearby Iraq.

<p>CARLSON: Mr. Jackson, thanks for joining us. I want to read you a quote of yours. This is something you said yesterday on an Atlanta radio station AM 680 about the Masters Tournament. "The name does not really come from being the master of golf," you said. "You know it really comes from slave masters."</p>

The premier woman's event in golf, to be held this July 3-6 at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon, may have an unusual entry. His name is Brian Kontac. He is 31 years old and has conditional status on the PGA tour. A former Canadian tour Order of Merit winner, Kontak told the Golf Channel in mid-February that his current plan is to tee off against women at the Open...(snip)CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE.

<p>WE WAITED a few days, to see if it would pan out the way we figured it would. And it did.</p> <p>Shaquille O'Neal and Fuzzy Zoeller have a lot in common. For starters, both think they're funnier than they are. But that stands to reason because people tend to laugh harder than jokes warrant when they're spoken by sports celebs.</p>

The group pushing for female members at Augusta National took its battle into cyberspace Tuesday with a Web site that vilifies corporations whose chief executives belong to the golf club. ``We think it is important for women to know that some of America's largest corporations maintain a double standard when it comes to sex discrimination,'' said Martha Burk, head of the National Council of Women's Organizations. The site -- www.augustadiscriminates.org -- officially was to go online Tuesday night to coincide with Burk's appearance on HBO's ``Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.'' The main page, headlined ``Hall of Hypocrisy,'' will display logos...

December 8, 2002 Woods Is Not Obliged to BoycottBy DAVE ANDERSON LEASE, let Tiger Woods just play golf. That's what he does, and does better than anybody else. He's not a social activist. He never has been. And it's unlikely he ever will be. It's not his style. All he wants to do is win golf tournaments, especially the Masters and the other three major tournaments. All the continuing commotion about the Augusta National Golf Club, the site of the Masters, and its all-male membership isn't Woods's fight any more than it's any other golfer's fight. Or the PGA...

The Times Backs Down Anderson and Araton pieces on Augusta will be published this weekend By Seth Mnookin NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Dec. 6 — The New York Times plans to run this weekend the two previously spiked sports columns that contradicted the paper’s editorial position on Augusta National, the all-male country club that hosts the Masters Tournament, according to one of the columnists.