On Our Mind Golf Blog

Jim Furyk deserves some credit for giving it the old college try after waking up at 7:23 a.m. in what I assume was one of the more panicked "Oh Sh!t" moments of his professional golf career.

The fifth-ranked player in the Official World Golf Rankings and No. 3 in the FedEx Cup standings was late to his 7:30 a.m. Pro-Am tee time Wednesday morning at Ridgewood Country Club (site of this week's The Barclays Playoff event), and in accordance with a PGA Tour policy established in 2004, he was disqualified from the tournament.

Alvin Greene, the South Carolina Democrat who won his party's primary sans campaign staff, website and financial support, makes Sarah Palin look like Stephen Hawking.

A day after he won 59 percent of the primary vote, media reports revealed that Greene was facing felony charges related to a Roethlisbergeresque (major points in Scrabble) incident in a computer lab on the campus of his alma mater, the University of South Carolina.