On Our Mind Golf Blog

Mired in a financial mess, there was two-time major champion John Daly selling memorabilia across from the most famous golf club in the world, Augusta National, during Masters week. Daly's been in worse situations, but this scene had to be disheartening for fans, family and friends who've stuck by his side during his well-documented slide into a state of disrepair.

"I don't have one sponsor right now," said Daly in an exclusive interview with the NY Post that ran the Thursday The Masters began. "I'm on the verge of bankruptcy with the bad economy and the loss of sponsors. I don't want to go that route." 

At the age of 9, Alex Cejka and his father fled communist Czechoslovakia, escaping by heading west through three or four countries. The journey was more like a 'vacation' for Cejka who said at the time he really didn't know what was going on.

He and his dad got away on foot, by train, by bicycle and they even swam across the Rhine River. They wound up in Germany, where they settled in Frankfurt. That's where Cejka really picked up golf, getting his first clubs and taking his first lesson.

They say you never forget your first, especially if you walk away with more than $1.7 million.

Five players who've yet to win on the PGA Tour are in contention after 36 holes at The Players Championship, including 36-hole leader Alex Cejka who has never held a lead going into the weekend in a Tour event. 

The first round of The Players Championship is in the books, and it was an ideal day for scoring at TPC Sawgrass. The field averaged a score of 72.084 and 57 players recorded under par rounds.

Last year, TPC Sawgrass was the sixth most difficult scoring course out of 54 PGA Tour stops, behind Royal Birkdale (British Open), Oakland Hills (PGA Championship), Torrey Pines (U.S. Open), TPC Southwind (Memphis) and Muirfield Village (The Memorial).

On the golf course, Tim Tebow is just like you and I.

In an interview with Jacksonville's First Coast News , Tebow said he plays for the one or two good shots per round worth remembering and appreciates the escape a golf course offers.

"Playoffs?! Don't talk about playoffs! Are you kidding me? Playoffs? I'm just hoping we can win a game, another game!"

With apologies to former Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Mora, who's imfamous post-game press conference has lived on thanks to Coors Light, I'm gonna talk about playoffs.

The last we saw Sergio Garcia, the 29-year-old Spaniard with a penchant for speaking his mind was looking disinterested if not downright disgusted as he wallowed his way around Quail Hollow Club.

Sergio shot an unflattering 78 to miss the cut Friday, and he didn't need to discuss his round with the media once he finished in order to convey how he was feeling. His body language said it all. Instead of looking like a multi-millionaire with a world of talent, his gait resembled that of an undergraduate trudging to an 8 a.m. Philosophy lecture they'd put off until second semester of senior year after quarter draft night.

With the set fading to black at Bay Hill in mid-March, Tiger Woods knocked out Sean O'Hair with one of his trademark big money putts on the 18th green. At Quail Hollow, O'Hair played the part of Manny Pacquiao leaving Woods resigned to the role of Ricky Hatton, dizzied and dropped to the canvas by a young player on the rise and a golf course in major championship form.

It was sweet revenge for O'Hair, who was quickly branded as the latest in a string of PGA Tour players to crumble under the weight of Woods' considerable legend after he flamed out at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

With his purchase of a 36-hole private golf club in the nation's capital, Donald Trump has designs on taking the Chesapeake Bay area golf scene by storm and luring high-profile events and powerful Washington, D.C. players, including President Barack Obama, to his newest golf course holding.

A number of news outlets, including the Washington Post, have confirmed that Trump has acquired The Lowes Island Golf Club, which will now be known as Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C.

Golf Digest's most recent list of "America's Top 100 Public Golf Courses" featured eleven layouts from the state of South Carolina, the most by any state.

In honor of South Carolina's newfround supremacy, here is a look at the eleven courses to make the list in order of their Golf Digest ranking.