Phil Mickelson Is Wrong about PGA Tour

Last updated on: February 20, 2022 at 2:06 am By Kermit Zarley

I’ve been blogging about the proposed Saudi-backed Super Golf League (professional) that would lure players away from the PGA Tour and thereby compete with it by offering them huge sums of guaranteed income. One of those posts, here, is about 50-year old superstar Phil Mickelson supporting this proposal and in so doing heavily criticizing the PGA Tour in some specific ways that, however, lack necessary details, showing the Phil seems to be rather ill-informed about how the PGA Tour operates.... Read more

“You Can’t Trust the Russians”

Last updated on: February 20, 2022 at 1:51 am By Kermit Zarley

In 1957, the Soviet Union shot a battery-operated satellite into outer space that circled around the earth 326 times during a period of about three months and then fell out its orbit and burned up in earth’s atmosphere. It was a shiny, silver-colored ball only about 18 inches in diameter, and it was called Sputnik. That was the first time humans had ever shot anything into outer space. The Soviets were so proud of themselves. It made them look very... Read more

Phil Mickelson Says the PGA Tour Has “Obnoxious Greed”

Last updated on: February 18, 2022 at 12:29 am By Kermit Zarley

Phil Mickelson is second only to Tiger Woods among superstars on the PGA Tour in this century. Phil has won 45 PGA Tour tournaments, six of which have been majors. And Phil generally is a fan favorite. He gives good interviews at tournaments by sharing himself quite extensively. I would think that Phil Mickelson’s financial net worth would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. But right now, in my opinion and it seems that of most of the... Read more

Firearms Maker Remington Loses Lawsuit

Last updated on: February 15, 2022 at 7:49 pm By Kermit Zarley

The families of nine children who were shot and killed by 20-year old Adam Lanza in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 won a lawsuit today against Remington Arms Company, the maker of the rifle that the shooter used. The massacre had resulted in the deaths of 20 first graders and six adults. The weapon used was an AK-15 assault rifle. It was the largest such lawsuit ever won against an arms manufacturer,... Read more

Thousands of Catholic Baptisms Declared Void Over Personal Pronoun

Last updated on: February 14, 2022 at 9:56 pm By Kermit Zarley

I live in the Phoenix Valley in Arizona. Today, the Roman Catholic Church declared that thousands of baptisms performed by a single priest at the St. Gregory Catholic Church in the Diocese of Phoenix are void because Friar Andres Arango, ordained 25 years ago, always innocently pronounced the Catholic formula for baptism by using the word “we” instead of “I.” As reported in USA TODAY, he used the formula (in English), “we baptize you in the name of the father... Read more

Scheffler Wins WM Phoenix Open

Last updated on: February 14, 2022 at 3:47 pm By Kermit Zarley

Scottie Scheffler won his first tournament on the PGA Tour yesterday by defeating by defeating six-time winner Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a sudden playoff. They played the par-four 18th hole three times, with both parring it the first two times. On the third extra hole, Scheffler drove in the right san bunker but played a good shot onto the green about 15 feet short of the hole. Cantlay putted first, on the same line but about 25... Read more

Theegala Leads WM Phoenix Open

Last updated on: February 12, 2022 at 9:04 pm By Kermit Zarley

Sahith Theegala hung on to his one stroke lead today after three rounds in the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. This PGA Tour tournament advertises itself as “The Greatest Show on Grass,” and it truly is. I was out there today, and the gobs of fans who attend, and the many sophisticated grandstands they have, is astounding. Record Saturday attendance has been about 225,000 people in the past, and with today’s perfect 80 degrees temperature and... Read more

Saudi Golf League vs. PGA Tour

Last updated on: February 12, 2022 at 8:12 pm By Kermit Zarley

The big talk on the PGA Tour right now is a proposed international pro golf tour that is trying to draw PGA Tour players to compete on which would be in competition with the PGA Tour, and former superstar Greg Norman is promoting this new tour. Norman originally is from Australia, but has lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He gained his pro golf reputation largely by competing full time on the PGA Tour. But he has... Read more

Hypocrite Trump Again

Last updated on: February 12, 2022 at 12:30 am By Kermit Zarley

Donald Trump, during his 2015-16 campaign for the U.S. presidency constantly berated former First Lady Hilary Clinton for her having used a private email server for both her government and personal emails while Secretary of State. (She explained that to do otherwise, she would have had to carry two cell/smart phones with her at all times.) It was improper conduct which she later admitted to being a blunder. Yet other people in the U.S. government had done likewise. Trump claimed... Read more

Trump the Great Hypocrite Shredder

Last updated on: February 7, 2022 at 7:51 pm By Kermit Zarley

When Republican President Donald Trump finished delivering his State of the Union speech to Congress in 2020, we could see on television Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him tearing up her printed copy of the speech, one page at a time, in quite dramatic fashion. Afterwards, Pelosi explained to the media that she had no previous intention do that. But when she realized at that instant that not a single page that “didn’t have a lie... Read more