| Caddie takes up temporary job
Damon Green got caught moonlighting. Not long after departing Broken Sound Club after the first round of the Allianz Championship, the veteran caddie got a call from his primary employer. ''Are you cheating on me?'' Masters champion Zach Johnson wanted to know. Johnson said he hadn't seen maybe four shots of Golf Channel's coverage before hearing a familiar voice giving encouragement to Scott Hoch. Happily for Green, the conversation was good-natured. 'I said, `Yep, I'm down here getting a little work on the side,' '' Green said. ``It was pretty funny.'' With Johnson in the midst of a four-week break, Green took up Hoch's offer to reunite for a week at the Allianz. They previously spent 4 ½ years together earlier this decade, including a playoff victory at the 2003 Doral stop.
Golf Glance
Site: Pebble Beach, Calif. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,816 yards, par 72), Spyglass Hill Golf Course (6,833 yards, par 72) and Poppy Hills Golf Course (6,953 yards, par 72). Purse: $6 million. Winner's share: $1.08 million. FedEx Cup points: 25,000. Winner's share: 4,500. Television: Golf Channel (Thursday, 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Friday, 12:30-3:30 a.m., 3-6 p.m., 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-3:30 a.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6:30 p.m.). Last year: Phil Mickelson won by five strokes, closing with a 6-under 66 to match the tournament record of 20-under 268 set by Mark O'Meara in 1997. Mickelson also won the 1998 and 2005 tournaments. Last week: J.B.
Tiger Roils Fake Golf, Too
He's humbled opponents for more than a decade. He's made a mockery of the world's toughest courses and forced golf's establishment to rethink the game's equipment, its tournament scheduling, even its dress code. Less well-known is the mess Tiger Woods has made for fantasy golfers. Though less prominent than the juggernauts of fantasy football and baseball, fantasy golf leagues are offered by Yahoo, ESPN, NBC Sports and the Golf Channel, among others. These leagues usually operate by the same general principles used in other fantasy sports -- you draft a "team" composed of the pros you think will shoot the lowest scores, win the most tournaments or earn the most prize money in the upcoming year, then you watch them compete against the various imaginary teams assembled by your dimwit friends.
Peace Arch Bags Canadian Distribution Rights on Four Insight Films
TORONTO, October 17: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has inked an exclusive multi-picture deal with Insight Film Studios to distribute four feature films in Canada: When a Man Falls In The Forest, Operation Espionage, Higher Education and Numb. The comedy Numb stars Golden Globe Award-nominee Matthew Perry as Hudson Milbank, a depressed screenwriter who begins to think that everything around him is unreal. After turning to the Golf Channel to cope, things start to change for the better when he meets someone who makes his race to recovery imperative. Numb is slated for a North American theatrical release in the winter of 2008. When a Man Falls in the Forest features Academy Award-nominee Sharon Stone, Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton and Spider-man�s Dylan Baker as three dysfunctional people who have nothing to look forward to.
Pitts: Woods, Sharpton choose poorly
Me, I've lost no sleep over what Kelly Tilghman said.
She's the Golf Channel broadcaster who is sitting out a two-week suspension for a throwaway comment on the air about Tiger Woods. It seems Tilghman and analyst Nick Faldo were discussing how little chance young golfers have of stopping Woods. "To take Tiger on, maybe they should just gang up for a while," Faldo said.
To which Tilghman replied with a laugh, "Lynch him in a back alley." Ha ha ha.
Oh yeah, right. Given that thousands of young black men actually have been lynched in back alleys - and town squares - in our history, there wasn't anything remotely funny about this "joke." Tilghman evidently realized this soon enough. She apologized off camera to Woods, whom she considers a friend.
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