Just for Chips and Giggles: Catch-Up Edition

Welcome to the newest addition to Playing From the Wrong Fairway: Just for Chips and Giggles. Basically what this feature is going to be made up of is stories that slip through the cracks. It might become a weekly thing, but it just depends on how things go. Beings that I haven’t had the chance to update in a while, the first edition of this new segment will take the shape of a gigantic link dump. Usually, there will be a little more opinion added to each segment, but with so much time off and everything that needs to be touched on, this is the most simplified way it can happen.

Without further ado, here. we. go.

• It’s a shame that we didn’t get to do something on Luke Donald’s big double-win on the money lists. It really was one of the biggest accomplishments of recent years.
• Speaking of more money than people know what to do with, Lee Westwood shows that he is just a normal bloke making too much money.
• The world lost perhaps it’s best golfer while we were away. A 38-under par round of 34 and 11 holes-in-one. What a shame the Dear Leader never got his chance to play Augusta.
• Chubby Chandler’s International Management Group stable of stars took a hit when Rory McIlroy walked, but the Chubster added former US Am Champion Peter Uhlein and he’s talking about playing on the European Tour.
• Gary Woodland has had an interesting off-season. First, he was dropped by his swing coach (?) and now, he’s with Tiger and Mark Steinberg. 
• Speaking of Rory, he’s gave a couple of interviews towards the end of 2011 about the Masters, the US Open and what went into his decision to leave IMG. 
• Another young up-and-comer, Lexi Thompson snagged her second win.
• Yani Tseng dominated golf in 2011 moreso than anyone since Tiger in 2000 last year, but she still can’t get any love.
• Tiger Woods is one of those guys who left college early and never seemed to pan out. Could you imagine the type of coin he’d make if he actually got a degree? Well, he’s going to join the club of super-rich recent college graduates that I’m a member of. Just rolling in dough. 99% of college athletes go pro in something other than sports, you know.
• Speaking of guys who didn’t get a college degree and are really doing everything they can to scrape by, Justin Timberlake is now the Creative Director for Callaway.
• The PGA Tour is messing with the Q-School format and not in a good way. How am I supposed to get into the big leagues with these changes?
• BubbaClaus shot a 58. Not really that impressive compared to Kim Jung-il.
• The Golf Channel put Nick Faldo and Johnny Miller together in the same booth for the Tournament of Champions. It went as well as you could expect, which is to say, not well.
• 2012: The Year of Robot Golf. Maybe the Mayans were right.
• And finally, the golf highlight of the Wrong Fairway moratorium:

It’s good to be back. More tomorrow.

Thanks for checking in. 2012 should be fun.