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MAY 3, 2010
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Aye, ’tis maybe the stress
o’ the upcoming Ryder Cup
matches that has Euro captain
Colin Mont-
gomerie
out
of sorts. At
least that’s
the tact the
Scot might
consider
after his
meltdown
at the end
of the first
round of
the Span-
ish Open
Thursday.
Monty fin-
ished his
day on the
ninth with a three-putt bogey
that left him at 1-under-par
71. He blamed the three-putt
on loud disco music coming
from a nearby hospitality tent
and reacted furiously. “Is this
a ----ing party or is it a golf
tournament?” Montgomerie
shouted at tournament direc-
tor
Miguel Vidaor
. He then
left the grounds, refusing a
request to speak to the media.
The Villain: Music
The Victim: Monty
Eighty-one-year-old
Harris
Moore Jr.
, a professional from
Los Angeles, is one of 9,052
entries for the U.S. Open at
Pebble Beach, June 17-20.
Surprisingly, British book-
maker Ladbrokes has yet to
established odds on Moore
winning the championship.
The USGA says the number
of entries are the second
highest ever, just shy of the
9,086 entries received for the
2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage
Black. Entries came from
all 50 states in the U.S., the
District of Columbia and 68
foreign countries. Eighteen-
hole local qualifying will be
held May 7-20 at 111 sites.
Sectional qualifying, played
over 36 holes, will be staged
at two sites (Japan and Eng-
land) on May 24 and 13 sites
in the U.S. on June 7. One of
those attempting to qualify in
England will be the 46-year-
old Montgomerie, who has
finished second three times in
the U.S. Open.
OneAsia and its Korean
contingent of professional
golfers have apparently made
nice after a one-day snit
Tuesday, but there are some
who believe there’s an odor
emanating from Denmark still
lingering over the resolution –
and it isn’t the Eyjafjallajokull
volcano. Granted, some have
an axe to grind. Asian Tour
executive chairman
Kyi Hla
Han
, an outspoken critic of
OneAsia, hinted third-party
pressure was used to squelch
the uprising. An oft-men-
tioned suspect is SBS, the
Korean broadcast giant and
TV partner with World Sport
Group, which started OneAsia.
SBS has its fingerprints all
over OneAsia and the Korea
Golf Association, the country’s
most powerful golf body that
owns two of the three OneA-
sia stops in Korea.
Sang Y.
Chun
, former CEO of SBS, was
recently named chairman of
OneAsia and another top SBS
executive is high up on the
Korea GA board. Stay tuned.
So did you hear the one
about the BBC correspondent
who flew to Augusta to cover
Tiger’s return at The Masters,
but lacked proper credentials
so he watched on TV from his
hotel room and filed “live”
reports from a course more
than a mile away. The gig was
up for
James Pearce
, how-
ever, when viewers noticed a
pair of elderly golfers putter-
ing around in the background
of one of his updates. l
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