This Week in Golf
Updated: 02/21/01
PGA Tour

As we sit and ponder the fact that Joe Durant now holds the PGA Tour all-time under par scoring record ...

Garrett Willis wins. Phil Mickelson slices one into the water to blow his chance at Pebble, then slices his way to a playoff double-bogey the next week at the Buick Invitational -- and wins.

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Tour Insider
Updated: 02/20/01
Scoring records are falling, and I can't see how the game is any worse off because of technology. I do know one thing: the gap has closed between Tiger Woods and the rest of the game not because of a collective "raising of the bar," but because of the three-piece golf ball.

Durant Durant
Updated: 02/18/01
By the time Joe Durant made back-to-back birdies to open the back nine, those chasing him had pretty much given up hope. Durant had just begun a chase of his own, though, straight into the PGA Tour record book.

Durant capped off a near flawless 65 on Sunday with birdies on two of the last three holes to win the Bob Hope Classic and set a record for the lowest score ever in a 90-hole tour event.

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Joe and Arnie show
Updated: 02/17/01
Joe Durant slipped almost unnoticed into the press tent at the Bob Hope Classic, threading his way between fans waiting for autographs. He had just set a PGA Tour scoring record, while serving notice that this was his tournament to win.

The fans couldn't have cared less. They were there for Arnold Palmer, who made perhaps one last charge into the record books himself.

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Nicklaus, Player get Presidents Cup Nod
Updated: 02/16/01

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 14) -- The PGA Tour announced that Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player will serve as captains of the United States and International Teams, respectively, for The Presidents Cup in 2002.

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Weir on the Right Track
Updated: 02/16/01

Diminutive Mike Weir resembles a sand wedge in a bag full of oversized drivers, yet he continues to grow in stature and mingles comfortably with the giants on the PGA Tour.

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Joe goin' low
Updated: 02/16/01
Joe Durant was so frustrated trying to play golf for a living that he quit the game to sell insurance.

Luckily for him, he turned out to be even worse at selling than he had been at playing.

Durant's decision to return to golf paid more dividends Friday when he shot a 67 to take a three-shot lead over Paul Stankowski through three rounds of the Bob Hope Classic.

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Smokin' Joe
Updated: 02/15/01
Joe Durant went where he had never gone before to take the lead in the Bob Hope Classic. He might end up having to go where no one has gone before to have a chance of winning.

On another day where birdies came in bunches in the desert, Durant shattered his personal best score with an 11-under 61 that gave him a three-shot lead after two rounds of the 90-hole Hope.

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