Golfer Withdrew Day After $100,000 On Booze?

PGA Tour party animal Anthony Kim is in Vegas this week to play the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Anthony Kim: $ 100,000 on booze

(Dude is trained champagne shower professional)

Correction: PGA Tour party animal Anthony Kim was in Vegas this week to play the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Blaming a thumb injury, the golfer withdrew from the tournament hours after Norm Clarke of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL reported of Kim’s gambling habit on Wednesday:

His salty language and screaming was so bad that Kim, 25, was asked to tone it down Monday by Bellagio management.

“He is one loose cannon,” said a dealer, who said Kim may have set a personal record for F-bombs while playing high-stakes craps over the weekend.

Turns out Kim, who had plans to play this week despite thumb surgery earlier this year, wasn’t satisfied with merely bellowing at the Bellagio. So he hit the back nine at The Palms early Wednesday morning – a few hours before his scheduled tee time.

Kai Saint John, “DJ Exodus” at Moon Nightclub and Ghostbar at the Palms Casino Resort, Tweeted Wednesday at 3am: (more…)

SPORTSbyBROOKS

Don’t Have Favorite PGA Tour Golfer? You Do Now

Until recently, three-time PGA Tour tournament winner Ben Crane was best known – at least to the general public – as one of two PGAers who was misquoted criticizing the alt-lifestyle of Tiger Woods late last year. Crane’s also notorious amongst his golfing peers and media for being an excruciatingly slow player.

Ben Crane Workout Video

Though we’ve learned in the last week that unlike most PGA Tour pros, Crane isn’t satisfied with that unremarkable public profile and has set out to do something about it.
(more…)

SPORTSbyBROOKS

This Exists: Golfer Starts Fire When Swing Hits Rock

Let’s chalk this into consideration for the Hyperbole Hall of Fame: the most ridiculous way to start a forest fire. I wish there was video of this report from the AP:

[A] golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.

It’s not enough that this place is called Shady Canyon, but now errant rocks and one bad slice can start a forest fire. How bad do you feel for this guy (who, by the way, was not pressed with any criminal charges)?

Remember what Smokey the Bear says: only you can prevent forest fires and bad golfers. And to help with the latter, I remind you of the definition of loose impediments and what USGA’s Rule 23 say about them:

Loose Impediments
Loose impediments” are natural objects including:

· stones, leaves, twigs, branches and the like,
· dung, and
· worms, insects and the like, and the casts and heaps made by them,

provided they are not:

· fixed or growing,
· solidly embedded, or
· adhering to the ball.

Sand and loose soil are loose impediments on the putting green, but not elsewhere.

Snow and natural ice, other than frost, are either casual water or loose impediments, at the option of the player.

Dew and frost are not loose impediments.

23-1. Relief

Except when both the loose impediment and the ball lie in or touch the same hazard, any loose impediment may be removed without penalty.

SportsGrid