Paul Azinger News

Welcome to Lame Excuses Week. You'll just have to guess who inspired this new holiday with their actions at The Players.

The Donald Ross-designed course has hosted the event for several years, and some previous winners included Paul Azinger and Scott Dunlap.

A MAJOR winner coming clean about popping pills may well be the confession golf's cynics are desperate to hear but Tony Jacklin admitting he had taken something to counteract feeling "wired" in the 1969 Open Championship is unlikely to set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

We remember the tiny, terrifying, island-green 17th, the players' comments and the post-round splash by winner Jerry Pate.

Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have all accomplished super-human feats on the golf course.

Bernard Gallacher: 'I don t get it because I don t think golf has any problems with doping'. Picture: TSPL TWO months ago, the New York Times published a feature on dope testing in sport, but not your normal sport, not your cycling or your tennis or your athletics or your football.

Tom Rinaldi, Paul Azinger, Andy North and Curtis Strange explain the ruling that cost Tiger Woods a 2-stroke penalty for his improper drop on the 15th hole.

In an attempt to put together a list of golf's biggest underachievers, a baseline qualifier had to be established.