This Week in Golf
Updated: 02/26/01
Since Robert Allenby has been so impressive in playoffs in his career (7-0, counting last week's win at the Nissan), is it all that surprising that he hit that great 3-wood from a spongy lie to five feet to birdie a hole nobody else could get to in two?

Too bad the tournament was more a war of attrition than a true test of golf. The weather (rain, with a chance of more rain) made it dreary to watch.

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In-Genuity Rules
Updated: 02/26/01
Warnings of a soft economy rang hollow at the South Florida Golf Foundation where a replacement sponsor for the Doral-Ryder Open took all of six weeks to find and resulted in a 50 percent purse increase, from $3 million to a staggering $4.5 million.

Tournament director Tom Neville had eight corporations salivating when Ryder Systems Inc. ended its 14-year run, and went with Genuity Inc., a business-to-business internet provider. This week's Genuity Championship is one of 18 tour events with a purse of more than $4 million, and with a new television contract looming, that number will surely jump in 2003.

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Wet 'n Wild
Updated: 02/25/01
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 25) -- No matter how many guys he has to beat, Robert Allenby is becoming the master of sudden-death playoffs.

In the largest playoff in PGA Tour history, the 29-year-old Australian laced a 3-wood through a cold, raw rain to 5 feet on the first extra hole and made the birdie putt Sunday to win the Nissan Open against five other players. It was Allenby's third PGA Tour victory, all of them won in playoffs, none quite like this.

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California Angels
Updated: 02/24/01

LOS ANGELES (Feb. 23) -- That $500,000 bonus for winning the West Coast Swing is an afterthought for Davis Love III, who suddenly has a better prize in mind.

Love, who went 34 months without winning and now can't seem to do anything wrong, had a 4-under 67 at soggy Riviera Country Club on Friday to share the lead with Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain after two rounds of the Nissan Open.

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Spreading Some Love
Updated: 02/24/01
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 24) -- Not long after slipping on his rain gear and hitting his first tee shot through a cold, steady rain, Davis Love III knew exactly what he had to do Saturday in the Nissan Open. Get in the lead, and stay in the lead.

It took him longer than he imagined, but he got the job done.

With rain dripping from the brim of his hat, Love rammed in a 40-foot birdie putt from just off the 17th green and opened up a three-stroke lead on soggy and suddenly long Riviera Country Club.

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Tour Insider
Updated: 02/24/01
They used to say the season didn’t start until Doral. No more. Now that the West Coast Swing has swung to Florida, it’s time to make to draw some conclusions about the 2001 season:

The story of the first two months was not any two players, but two pieces of equipment; nonconforming drivers and hot golf balls. More people are talking about the ERC II than what happened in California, and the new multi-layer rockets have created a whole new ballgame.

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In His Defense
Updated: 02/22/01
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 22) -- Tom Scherrer didn't want to embarrass himself in front of such an important audience -- Tiger Woods in his threesome, thousands of fans in tow. He held up just fine today in the first round of the Nissan Open.

The large gallery that accompanied the No. 1 player in the world was treated to a nearly flawless round by Scherrer, whose bogey-free 66 on a cool, breezy morning at Riviera Country Club gave him a share of the lead.

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Durant Becomes a Record Producer
Updated: 02/21/01
Nice guys can first first and break records, too. But what is the shelf life of historic happenings in golf now? That is the question.

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