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Golf is a game of integrity. Players are self-policed, and in the rare instance they fail to correctly assess a penalty for some inane rules violation, myriad busybodies watching the telecast will invariably phone the PGA Tour Transgressions hotline to rat out the guilty party. Checks and balances, people.

Oddly, neither happened during February's FBR Open when Kenny Perry, as Local Knowledge blog's John Strege writes, appeared to "deliberately improv[e] his lie by tapping down grass behind his ball on the first playoff hole."

Video evidence after the jump.

Every week, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action, with a little commentary mixed in. This past weekend, FanHouse was out at the FBR Open, a tournament known more for its party atmosphere than its golf.

Kenny Perry Nearly Made Me Emotional -- On Friday, Kenny Perry walked in the press room after a smoldering 63 that got him back in a tournament that he nearly shot himself out of on Thursday with a 1-over 72. When he started chatting, it was the same old story you get from any golfer. "I made birdie here, I missed an eagle putt there, I felt I hit the ball solid, it was a good day for me around the greens." Yawn. We've heard all that before, Kenny.

What I wasn't ready for was this. Perry started talking about his ailing father and how he felt he needed to play good golf just keep his father alive.

Notes from the tail end of the FedEx Cup run at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro.

Charley Hoffman is pretty awesome, as you can see from the right. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention the number of f-bombs I heard him drop today, but it was a ton almost zero. Seriously though, Hoffman kind of rules. Having him paired with Daly made the majority of my day far more enjoyable.

And in the ever-clear and 20/20 vision that is hindsight, I kind of wish I hadn't semi-bashed Garrett Willis for his shrug off of a fan yesterday. It still took him about half a day to shake the bad karma, but we caught him when he made a mini-run at the Wyndham Sunday, and the dood is pretty funny.

He told someone creeping by in a clunker and slowing down to watch a tee shot that he should just "buy ah ticket", which was so solid. Of course, he's cool, but he's no Charley Hoffman.

Hoffman flew a drive to the right side of the crowd rope on 17 Sunday that caught the cart path, plugged a young fan in the arm and then skidded back into the fairway. (In case you don't believe me, proof of the plunk below.)

Little known fact about the site of this year's U.S. Open: there is a nudist colony that frequents the beach near Torrey Pines. No, seriously. They get naked and run around the beach and from said strip (bwa-ha-ha) of sand, they can see the Open workers firing up all the golf Major obstacles. Like bleachers and stuff. For the fans who will be watching.

"It's pretty much what you would see on any other beach," said [Lloyd]Johnson, the frontal man for the nudist group that frequents the scenic stretch. "People playing volleyball, throwing the Frisbee, body surfing, building sandcastles, collecting seashells. Maybe playing some backgammon."

[...]A scant 100 yards below one of the most scenic vistas in golf is a historic eye-opener of another sort. Paralleling the Torrey courses is a stretch of storied sand called Black's Beach, where they congregate in the buff below the bluff.