Southern Hills is Scheffler’s favorite course, and he showed why with an impressive practice round.
Tiger Woods isn’t the only major winner to show up at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a preview of the host venue of next week’s 104th PGA Championship.
So, too, did World No. 1 and reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, though no one tracked his private plane and helicopters didn’t hover above as he played his round.
But Scheffler was there on Thursday alongside his Zurich Classic of New Orleans partner Ryan Palmer and a buddy of theirs to see the latest renovations made by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner in 2018.
Scheffler likely will be more familiar than most of the players in the PGA field with Southern Hills, which he often has touted as his favorite course. It is the site of Scheffler’s victory in the 2015 Big 12 Championship while competing for the University of Texas and he finished in a tie for fifth in 2018. He also competed in the 2014 Trans-Mississippi Championship, tying for 21st place.
Last week, Scheffler had Cameron Chhim on the bag, and the Southern Hills assistant professional came away duly impressed with the game of the Masters champion. And why not? The hottest golfer on the planet, with wins in four of his last six individual tournaments, fired 6-under 64 in his practice round. After touring the front nine in a ho-hum score of 1-under and then enduring a rain delay, Scheffler peeled off birdies on Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17.
“He played one ball the entire time, no practice putts, and made it look easy,” Chhim told Golf Oklahoma. “He’s No. 1 in the world and it was pretty easy to see why. It would be hard to say that he’s not going to win or at least be in contention. He hits it far enough and he has just incredible distance control with his irons. Ryan shot 2 or 3 under and looked like he was standing still based on how Scottie was playing.”
Scheffler, the only player capable of winning the Grand Slam this year, will warm up for the second major this week at the AT&T Byron Nelson in his hometown of Dallas.
Joe Buck and Michael Collins to lead a Manningcast style alternative broadcast of the PGA Championship on ESPN and ESPN+.
Joe Buck isn’t waiting for football season to make his debut on ESPN.
As first reported by the N.Y. Post and confirmed by Buck on social media, the former FOX Sports broadcaster will host a “Manningcast” for the PGA Championship, which begins May 19 at Southern Hills in Tulsa, OK.
In a tweet reply to Geoff Shackleford, Buck confirmed his role, saying, “It’s real. Gonna be fun. Larry David is close to committing. It will have that type feel. Very USGA.”
Buck formerly covered the U.S. Open and other USGA championships when Fox outbid NBC for the USGA broadcast rights.
It’s real. Gonna be fun. Larry David is close to committing. It will have that type feel. VERY USGA. https://t.co/jLZ3oihm0E
In March, Buck left Fox to join ESPN, where he will serve as play-by-play voice for Monday Night Football, signing a deal reportedly for five years and $75 million.
Peyton and Eli Manning’s alternative broadcast of “MNF” on ESPN2 was a big hit, and Peyton’s company, Omaha Productions, signed a deal with ESPN to create alternative broadcasts on golf, UFC and college football. The golf broadcast at the PGA will be the first spin-off as part of that deal.
ESPN golf analyst Michael Collins, and David Moulton, Aikman’s NFL spotter, who worked with Buck on golf, are expected to be involved in the broadcast too, and “the show will likely emanate from a studio in Buck’s hometown of St. Louis.”
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The Buck-cast will air all four days of the PGA Championship, with the first and second round Buck-cast shows beginning on ESPN, while the traditional live golf coverage starts on ESPN+. After an hour, Buck and Collins will move to ESPN2 when the main golf coverage transfers to ESPN.
For the final rounds on Saturday and Sunday, Buck-cast will have an hour on ESPN to start the day, while traditional coverage is again on ESPN+. After the first hour, the Buck-cast will move to ESPN+ with the main crew moving back to ESPN. CBS still will carry the bulk of the weekend coverage.
English said returning to action at a major probably isn’t the best way to ease in.
A stellar 2021 season has been mostly a wash for Harris English of St. Simons Island, Ga.
After winning twice, cracking the top-10 on the Official World Golf Ranking and making his Ryder Cup debut at Whistling Straits (he went 1-2 but lost both matches on the 18th hole), English hasn’t played since the Sony Open in January after hip surgery. He’s had a bone growth on his femur, which he treated with platelet-rich plasma injections, but surgery was inevitable and he finally pulled the trigger at a facility in Vail, Colo.
English was one of only two top-20 players to miss The Players Championship and the four-time Tour winner missed the Masters for the first time he was eligible, denying the Valdosta native and former University of Georgia player the chance to improve on his tied for 21st in 2021.
“It sucked to miss the Masters and Match Play and tournaments I really like,” English told the Associated Press. “But I was looking at the next eight to 10 years of having a chance to compete and win golf tournaments.”
Harris English reacts on the 15th hole after getting a hole in during the first round of the Tour Championship golf tournament. (Photo: Adam Hagy-USA TODAY Sports)
English now thinks he can play for the first time in five months at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. He’s been taking long walks on St. Simons and recently began hitting short irons with his coach Justin Parsons.
“They liked where everything was at,” English said of doctors’ opinions. “It feels like there’s definitely light at the end of the tunnel.”
English said returning to action at a major probably isn’t the best way to ease in.
“You’ve got to start somewhere,” he said. “I’ll prepare as much as I can to win.”
Cary Cozby caddied for Tiger Woods during his practice round at Southern Hills Country Club.
Cary Cozby’s phone hasn’t stopped blowing up.
That’s no surprise after the director of golf at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, spent Thursday caddying for Tiger Woods during his practice round for the PGA Championship.
Cozby noted he dropped a towel on the first hole and forgot to rake a bunker at the third while talking to Tiger’s right-hand man, Rob McNamara, who joined Tiger for the round and had Cozby’s 13-year-old son Banks on his bag.
“I thought I was going to get fired on four tee,” he said.
Speaking on “A New Breed of Golf” with Michael Breed on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, Cozby recounted receiving a call from the PGA of America informing him of Tiger’s impending visit and being told “you can’t tell anybody.” He described Tiger’s visit as akin to the Beatles showing up at his club.
“It’s amazing what he has to deal with on a daily basis,” Cozby said. “He came through the gate. He didn’t even come to the clubhouse because he knew what he’d have to deal with and went straight to the range. They sent a text said, ‘Hey, we’re on the practice tee. I’ll meet you on the first tee.’ And of course our clubhouse is open so we probably had 20 people, the patio, the golf shop’s right off the first tee. So there were probably 20 members that slipped out there to watch him. He didn’t look up, hit his shot. Second hole, there’s a helicopter. Fourth hole, there’s 50 to 70 people up on the hill overlooking that hole. And by the time we get to six there’s 30 to 40 people in the trees across the street with television cameras and phones and pictures, and [saying] ‘We love you, Tiger. Go get ’em, Tiger. Great shot, Tiger.’ Just amazing.”
Cozby, the 2016 PGA Professional of the Year and son of Jerry, a club pro in his own right and former Golfweek Father of the Year, has been the director of golf at Southern Hills since 2015. He competed in the 2021 Senior PGA Championship and knows a thing or two about the golf swing. He had this review of Tiger’s swing from his up-close look.
"There's 30-40 people in the trees…with television cameras and phones"
— SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio (@SiriusXMPGATOUR) April 29, 2022
“Every piece of it is very, it’s simple,” Cozby said. “He never once swung anything out of perfect rhythm. So he never went out of shot. Some things I just noticed, like his grip is perfect. It’s just perfect. And he never missed one shot anywhere close to an inch left to where he was looking. If he missed it, just hung a little to the right. I went through every shot, as you might guess, last night just thinking about it. And it was, if he missed it, he just hung it a little right. Or he just misgauged the wind. It was windy yesterday. And I think he hit one shot that, it was heavy and Rob goes, ‘The wind got that.’ He goes, ‘No, I hit a [inaudible] shot with my six iron instead.’ So that was about the only shot that wasn’t just on the button. And watching him pitch around the greens, I can tell you this, I was pretty nervous holding that putter.”
When Breed asked about Tiger’s stamina and ability to handle the walk at Southern Hills, Cozby said, “Obviously his gait’s permanently, I’m guessing, different. And he walks gingerly or just kind of like he is favoring it, but, and he was maybe looked like he, late in the round [was] hurting, but he didn’t say a word. Of course, he didn’t complain about any of that. My guess is he got back from Augusta and he assessed it and knew what he was dealing with and went back to work just based on what you know about him for the past 25 years. And I think he’s, I mean, he’ll be fine and he hits it so good. And does everything, he chips it and putts it incredible. Just fun to watch. He forgot his sand wedge so just had his 60. Left it in the backyard he said.”
When they reached 18, Cozby estimated more than 100 members watched on the hillside.
“It looked like the Beatles were here when we walked off 18,” Cozby said.
Tiger signed a ball and glove for Banks, but scooted before Cozby could ask for a photo. McNamara said they’ll take one together in May when Tiger returns for the championship – is that confirmation he’s playing? – but Cozby won’t be lacking for a keepsake from his experience.
“We’re excited about the prospects of the future, about training, about getting into that gym and doing some other stuff to get my leg stronger, which we haven’t been able to do because it needed more time to heal,” Woods said. “We’ll get back after it, and we’ll get into it.”
Apparently, Woods is doing just that as his private airplane arrived at a Tulsa, Oklahoma airport on Thursday. Woods was expected to play a practice round at Southern Hills Country Club, the site of the PGA, beginning May 19, where he won the 2007 PGA Championship by two strokes.
Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis, citing multiple sources, reported that Cary Cozby, the head professional at Southern Hills, served as caddie for Woods, who planned to walk all 18 holes.
Woods, 46, shocked the world in April when he competed in the Masters less than 14 months after being involved in a high-speed single-car accident in February 2021 that nearly resulted in amputation of his right leg. Woods opened with 71 at Augusta National, made the 36-hole cut, but began limping as the tournament went on and finished 47th.
In a post-round TV interview, Woods said he intended to play in the 150th British Open at St. Andrews in Scotland, where he won twice, and that he hoped to play at the PGA. He later committed to the J.P. McManus Pro-Am, a two-day event at Adare Manor in Ireland to be held the Monday and Tuesday before the season’s final major.
Woods entered the PGA Championship and U.S. Open to be held June 16-19 at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., before the deadline but that was simply a formality to give himself options rather than a firm commitment that he’d be healthy enough to walk four rounds. At the Masters, Woods declared himself a game-time decision and it wouldn’t be surprising if he takes a similar cautiously optimistic attitude about playing the PGA and beyond.
The visit to Tulsa on Thursday for Woods was a pit stop en route to Las Vegas, where Woods will host Tiger Jam, his annual charity fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Foundation on April 29-30.
The PGA Championship in 2022 is heading from Trump Bedminster to Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Two weeks ago at 10:01 p.m. ET on a Sunday night, days after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters breached the United States Capitol, the PGA of America announced that Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey would no longer be hosting the 2022 PGA Championship.
Next year’s major championship now has a new host according to the PGA of America: Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In a column earlier this month on Golfweek, Eamon Lynch wrote that moving the 2022 PGA Championship had been debated internally at the PGA of America for more than two years, but executives had previously been reluctant.
The PGA of America selects Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., to host the 2022 PGA Championship from May 16-22. Excited to return to SHCC for the fifth time. The course offers a tough-but-fair test for the strongest field in golf. pic.twitter.com/Etkh81dC0X
AKRON, Ohio – Ohio golf fans might get another chance to watch Tiger Woods before he turns 50. Firestone Country Club officials have made the PGA of America aware of their desire to host the 2022 PGA Championship, David Pillsbury, CEO of Firestone …
AKRON, Ohio — Ohio golf fans might get another chance to watch Tiger Woods before he turns 50.
Firestone Country Club officials have made the PGA of America aware of their desire to host the 2022 PGA Championship, David Pillsbury, CEO of Firestone owner ClubCorp, told the Akron Beacon Journal on Thursday.
The 2022 PGA was to be held May 19-22 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, but the PGA voted to strip the club of the major championship four days after supporters of President Donald Trump staged a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
“We have made it known to all the appropriate people of our interest and desire to bring the PGA Championship back to Firestone and that we would bend over backwards as a club and an organization to make it an amazing championship,” Pillsbury said in a phone interview from Dallas, where ClubCorp is based.
“Obviously, the PGA of America has to make this decision at its sole discretion and they have a lot of things that they’ll evaluate. I’m sure it’s lost on no one there of the great, rich history of championship golf at Firestone.”
Firestone has hosted three PGA Championships: in 1960, 1966 and 1975, won by Jay Hebert, Al Geiberger and Jack Nicklaus, respectively. Its professional golf history dates back to the 1954 Rubber City Open. It hosted the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational all but one year from 1999-2018, and Woods won on the famed South Course eight times, last in 2013.
The Arnold Palmer bridge on the 16th hole at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Photo by Brian Spurlock/USA TODAY Sports
A spokesman at the PGA of America gave no update about the organization’s timeline for its decision on a replacement site for 2022 and declined an interview request to discuss the factors being considered. NJ.com wrote in its story on the PGA cutting ties with Trump National that the decision would come after President Trump left office.
Pillsbury said he doesn’t know the PGA’s deadline for making an announcement, but understands what goes into staging the event. He worked for the PGA Tour for 11 years and served as president of championship management, which runs WGC events, and was at Firestone for nine of those.
The PGA process does not require Firestone to make a formal proposal or pitch.
“All you can do is put your best foot forward, which we’ve done,” Pillsbury said. “We stand on our great history at Firestone of the best players in the world competing year in and year out in three major championships and the WGCs for all those years. It’s certainly a proven venue, there’s no question about that.
“I’m sure they have no shortage of terrific options.”
Pillsbury pointed out that Firestone has a large base of volunteers and Ohioans and residents of the Midwest are strong supporters of professional golf.
After the departure of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2018, Bridgestone made a four-year commitment to sponsor the Senior Players Championship, one of the PGA Tour Champions majors. That deal runs through 2022.
Asked about the difficulty of hosting two events in one year, Pillsbury said, “We’ll figure that out if in fact we’re selected as the host for the PGA Championship. We will not let that be a problem as it relates to hosting a major championship.”
As for the condition of the course being compromised, he said, “We wouldn’t and I don’t think we would need to. I don’t think that would be an issue.”
In 1966, Firestone hosted three professional golf events — the PGA, the CBS Golf Classic and the World Series of Golf. In 1975, the PGA and the World Series of Golf, in its last year as a 36-hole exhibition, were both held there.
Presuming a Champions tour event remains at Firestone, the 2022 PGA would give Woods a chance to return to Akron before he turns 50 on Dec. 30, 2025. Woods recently underwent his fifth back surgery on top of five knee surgeries, and some wonder how much longer he will be able to play up to his standards.
After his third round in 2018 before the WGC event was moved to Memphis, Tennessee, Woods suggested the South Course should be the site of another major. He’s not alone in his reverence for Firestone, with Rory McIlroy also listing it among his favorites.
“It’s one of the great, iconic clubs in the United States and the players love the South Course,” Pillsbury said. “It would be a thrill for all of us to host another major championship. We would make it amazing, and so would everybody in Akron and Northeast Ohio. They would all pull out the stops. It would be incredible.”
The late-night news came just days after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters clashed with police, broke into the United States Capitol and swept through the halls of Congress, ultimately leading to the deaths of five people, including a Capitol police officer.
As the golf world begins to distance itself from the outgoing president, one PGA Tour player has a plan for Trump to fight back.
Hey @POTUS you should just host a tournament the same week as the 2022 PGA championship at your course. Put up a huge purse that players can’t turn down. Make the pga championship a weak field or force them to up their purse and cost them more money.
Murray, 27, won the 2017 Barbasol Championship but has otherwise struggled early in his PGA Tour career. The North Carolina native is currently 565th in the Official World Golf Ranking and has made just two cuts in his last ten starts.
The PGA of America has decided to move the 2022 PGA Championship from Trump Bedminster.
In a column posted on Saturday evening, Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch foresaw the PGA of America making a move regarding its 2022 PGA Championship.
A day later, that prediction became a reality.
At 10:01 p.m. ET Sunday night, the PGA of America announced that Trump Bedminster would no longer be the host of a major championship in 2022. The news comes just days after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters broke in and caused chaos at the United States Capitol.
“The PGA of America Board of Directors voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster,” came a Tweet from Jim Richerson, PGA of America President.
According to Lynch, moving the 2022 PGA Championship has been debated internally at the PGA of America for more than two years, but executives had previously been reluctant.
"The PGA of America Board of Directors voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster." — Jim Richerson, PGA of America President
This comes less than a week after a woman was shot and killed, and four others died as a pro-Trump mob battled police, broke into the U.S. Capitol and swept through the halls of Congress.
This isn’t the first time the Tour has canceled an event scheduled for a Trump property. In 2015, the Grand Slam of Golf at Trump National Los Angeles Golf Club when he made a comment about Mexican immigrants.
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“We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making,” Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, told the Associated Press in a telephone interview. “We’re fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for our mission and for our brand. And how do we best protect that? Our feeling was given the tragic events of Wednesday that we could no longer hold it at Bedminster. The damage could have been irreparable. The only real course of action was to leave.”
A spokesperson for the Trump organization released the following statement on Sunday night:
“We have had a beautiful partnership with the PGA of America and are incredibly disappointed with their decision,” the statement read. “This is a breach of a binding contract and they have no right to terminate the agreement. As an organization we have invested many, many millions of dollars in the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster. We will continue to promote the game of golf on every level and remain focused on operating the finest golf courses anywhere in the world.”
Where is the event headed?
Lynch said during a Sunday night segment on Golf Channel that Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa and Liberty National Golf Club — which is less than 30 minutes from Trump Bedminster — are being considered by PGA of America officials as potential replacements.
Either way, this severs ties with Trump’s golf properties, at least for the foreseeable future. The Senior PGA Championship was held at Trump’s course outside Washington in 2017, and the USGA held the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump Bedminster that year as well.
But no other events are now linked to the Trump Organization’s family of courses, which currently sits at 17, but was expected to increase to 20 in the future.
“This is not because of any pressures we feel. We’re not being forced into a decision,” Waugh told the AP. “We had to make a business decision. It’s a perpetual institution. My job is to hand it off better than when I found it. One hundred years from now, we still want to be vibrant.”
When historians eventually tally the cost of the Donald Trump era, the manifold indecencies of which culminated in Wednesday’s sacking of the United States Capitol during a failed insurrection, golf will not be counted among its casualties. The game …
When historians eventually tally the cost of the Donald Trump era, the manifold indecencies of which culminated in Wednesday’s sacking of the United States Capitol during a failed insurrection, golf will not be counted among its casualties.
The game will instead be portrayed as Trump’s refuge, something he did while ignoring a pandemic that has claimed 365,000 lives, refusing to acknowledge a resounding electoral defeat, and inciting feeble-minded fascists to violence that left five people dead at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
That’s the best case scenario.
The alternative? That a sport which prides itself on values like honesty, integrity and devotion to the rules will be characterized as a welcoming sanctuary for a brazen and amoral insurrectionist, a world in which a racist con man was never discomfited, even while taking a wrecking ball to the constitution and the rule of law.
Like the nation itself, golf has been measurably diminished by Donald Trump’s presence, and not merely in the optics of his choosing to play in times of great crisis and at taxpayer expense (though at least golf limited the damage he might otherwise have inflicted during the hours spent on the course). The damage golf sustained over the last handful of years is trivial by comparison to the country at large, but bears accounting nonetheless.
Two of the sport’s most iconic venues have become untouchable, at least for as long as his name remains above the door. The ‘Blue Monster’ course at Miami’s Doral Resort, which Trump bought in 2012, was home to a PGA Tour event for more than 50 years until the toxicity of his 2016 presidential campaign forced the Tour to relocate the tournament to Mexico City. Turnberry, on Scotland’s Ayrshire coast, is one of the finest venues on the Open Championship rota and has produced some of the most memorable finishes of the last 40-odd years. But the Open has stayed away since he bought it in 2014, and will likely do so for as long as he keeps it out of reach of the bailiffs.
Other major championships have felt his caress and withered. The 2017 U.S. Women’s Open, held at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, was a painful spectacle as most players tried to ignore the groping elephant in the room. His Bedminster course is scheduled to host the 2022 PGA Championship, a fact that now has the PGA of America bunkered down under sustained criticism for a decision made in 2014. Such are the perils of assigning championship venues far in advance; you just never know when you’ve hitched your premier event to a sociopath. Though there was a hint back in 2015, when the PGA of America chose to kill the Grand Slam of Golf rather than play it at Trump’s Los Angeles course in the wake of his racist comments about Mexicans.
Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Photo by Seth Wenig/Associated Press
The odds that ’22’s PGA Championship will happen as scheduled in New Jersey are about as good as the chances of you or I winning it. Seth Waugh, the PGA of America’s CEO, was a banker and has an alert eye for high-risk exposure. He knows that Trumpism is likely to be an equally incendiary force in the ’22 midterm elections and that any affiliation is poisonous. Waugh will be forced to move the event and face down a small but vocal faction of his membership who remain true believers. Moving its major from Trump National has been debated internally at the PGA for more than two years, but executives have been reluctant to antagonize a famously vindictive man who controls the Internal Revenue Service. Such concerns melt away in 10 days, if not sooner.
Reputations too have been left bruised in the eyes of many golf fans. Like those of Jack Nicklaus and Nancy Lopez, both of whom have long been celebrated for their character and rectitude. Both supported Trump in the waning days of the election campaign, despite clear signs he would not accept any result he didn’t like. Nicklaus and Lopez have a right to support whatever candidate they choose, but they are not exempt from scrutiny for a choice publicly stated. In the aftermath of Wednesday’s murderous riot in Washington, D.C., Lopez at least tweeted that she disagreed with Trump and was rooting for the country to unite under President Biden. Jack has remained silent as a sphinx.
Arguably even more sullied are the reputations of Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam, who attended the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the man who just one day earlier had incited the mob that killed a police officer. In an ideal world, the accomplishments for which Player and Sorenstam were being recognized with one of the nation’s highest civilian honors could be viewed independently of the administration conferring the honor, but like so many other norms that standard has been laid waste by Trump. Neither Player nor Sorenstam released photos from the ceremony. At least the third professional golfer “honored,” Babe Zaharias, doesn’t have to live with the shame, having died more than 60 years ago.
Bryson DeChambeau had shed the Trump Golf logo from his golf bag when he competed this week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Time will tell if others—like PGA Tour Champions regulars Rocco Mediate and Scott McCarron—do the same.
The notion that an association with the outgoing president might be cause for shame will trigger Trumpers in golf, who are accustomed to justifying his obscenities with whataboutery and conspiracy theories, who foam at the mouth when confronted with views alien to their echo chamber, and who can no longer distinguish the conservatism of old from the cult of today. They passionately (and rightly) celebrate Folds of Honor veterans yet defend Cadet Bone Spurs’ many calumnies against the military and their families. They mock (rightly) Bill Clinton’s audacious score-keeping, but turn a deaf ear when Trump demands officials “find” enough votes to flip a legitimate election in his favor. Golf no more belongs to that hypocritical cadre than does America itself.
Whatever the future holds for Donald Trump after the noon hour on January 20, the events of January 6 that left five people dead ought to make him a pariah everywhere. Including in golf. This game should not be the familiar bosom to which he can safely retreat while fending off indictments. He is finally and deservedly being expelled from civic life. He needs to be driven from golf, too.
