Tour Insider
Updated: 02/13/01

One way to judge the buzz created by a golf tournament is the number of phone messages I receive on a Monday morning. Tony Kornheiser called from ESPN Radio. So did Richard Neer from The Fan in New York. And the amazing thing is, they didn't want to talk Tiger. They wanted to talk Lickliter.

Somewhere, within the bowels of PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., they are happy about this.

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Woods, Nicklaus honored at ESPYs
Updated: 02/13/01
Woods breaks yet another record

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 13) -- Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus made the ESPY awards a golf show. Woods won a record four awards, giving him 11 career ESPYs, and Nicklaus received a lifetime achievement award from the ESPN television network Monday night.

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Norman Involved in Photo Fracas
Updated: 02/12/01
Norman claims it was all a setup

SYDNEY, Australia (Feb. 12) -- Greg Norman was involved in an incident with a photographer on Saturday night while celebrating his 46th birthday, but the Australian golfer's manager said Sunday that Norman did nothing wrong.

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Lehman to be Honored by GWAA
Updated: 02/12/01
Lehman to receive Bartlett Award prior to the Masters

(Feb. 12) -- Former British Open champion Tom Lehman is the 2001 recipient of the Golf Writers Association of America's Charles Bartlett Award, given to a professional golfer for his unselfish contributions to the betterment of society.

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Gut wrenching
Updated: 02/11/01
A repeat victory for Phil Mickelson in the Buick Invitational didn't come without the kind of finish that made his stomach churn. And it had nothing to do with food poisoning that he battled all week.

Mickelson became the first back-to-back winner at Torrey Pines in 25 years by making double bogey on the third playoff hole and winning when Frank Lickliter three-putted from 6 feet for a shocking loss that nearly left him in tears.

That Lovin' feeling
Updated: 02/10/01
Woods and Mickelson among those chasing lead

Love III didn't get much out of his round Saturday except the one thing that mattered at the end of the day -- the lead in the Buick Invitational.

And even that wasn't saying much, not with defending champion Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and two dozen other players within four shots of the lead.

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This Bud's for Johnson
Updated: 02/09/01
AT&T; Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
Mark Johnson once defied conventional wisdom by driving not for show, but for dough--all day, every day, until the 600 or 800 or 1,000 cases of beer were delivered and he could return home to Helendale, Calif., in the middle of Southern California's high desert.

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Back from the Bed
Updated: 02/09/01
Phil Mickelson is weaker and 10 pounds lighter from a bout with food poisoning, but still in the same position he was at this time last year -- tied for the lead going into the weekend of the Buick Invitational.

On what might be the last day of dry weather, Mickelson had an 8-under 64 on the easier North course at Torrey Pines to pull into a share of the 36-hole lead with Davis Love III, who beat him out of a win last week at Pebble Beach.

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