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Making the Cut: 5 Hottest Golfers

Each Wednesday during the golf season, FanHouse will be bringing you the top five names in golf and why they are important this week. Did Barack Obama play 18 holes with Tiger Woods? Did a certain player do something off the course that made him or her a hot topic? Or was just playing golf enough to get the pot stirring? Join us for a new weekly ranking feature we call Making the Cut.

5. Danny Lee -- He is only 18, but Lee has made some waves in his amateur career and just this week decided to turn pro, after using his Masters invitation from his U.S. Amateur win. If you don't think he's ready for the PGA Tour, you're very wrong. Earlier this year, Lee won the Johnnie Walker Classic, a European Tour event that has such esteemed former champions as Adam Scott, Greg Norman, Ernie Els and Mr. Woods. Lee was the youngest winner ever on the European Tour, and will be in the field at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for his first tournament as a pro.

He's Back

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Tiger ... Where Incredible Happens
-- Lewis Black once joked during his show at Carnegie Hall, which is the Augusta National for entertainers, "what do I do after this?" He was referring to reaching the apex of comedic halls, and how after that, everything would feel a little less extraordinary.

Tiger Woods has played Carnegie Hall more times than any other athlete in this lifetime, but the man continues to one-up himself, as he did at Bay Hill on Sunday.

Caddie Tales: The Final Putt


Over the weekend, Shane Bacon was out at the J Golf Phoenix LPGA International caddying for one of the pros on the LPGA Tour, Erica Blasberg. He documents his journey with his Caddie Tales.


I stood, holding the bag, on the sixth hole Sunday. We had just reeled off two birdies and were staring deeply into a third one on the par-5. It was a short tee and it was inviting us to go for it. We decided on the smaller of the two hybrid clubs. The ball, as cruel as the little bastard can be at times, snuck up on the front of the green for only a second before pausing, only to trickle back in the bunker and lead to a disappointing par.

Caddie Tales: Answers Inside the Ropes

This weekend, Shane Bacon will be out at the J Golf Phoenix LPGA International caddying for one of the pros on the LPGA Tour, Erica Blasberg. You can follow him daily with his Caddie Tales.

On Friday, Erica Blasberg (and myself, I guess) did what we needed to do to make it to the weekend. It was a solid round on greens that continue to dry out, and unfamiliar Phoenix winds keep messing with a golf course not used to such gusts. Erica finished with at 1-over 73 to make the cut by three shots and earn a weekend bonus with yours truly. Some of my fellow FanHouse scribes asked questions about the experience thus far. I tried my best to answer with a shoulder that continues to ache.

Caddie Tales: Only One Bruised Elbow


This weekend, Shane Bacon will be out at the J Golf Phoenix LPGA International caddying for one of the pros on the LPGA Tour, Erica Blasberg. You can follow him daily with his Caddie Tales.


My alarm sounded Thursday morning at 5:15 AM. I didn't like being awoken so early, but as a former competitive golfer, I knew the feeling. Excitement, anticipation and even a few jitters. It's what makes competitive golf so much fun.

Blogger Wears Caddie Bib for LPGA Pro

This weekend, Shane Bacon will be out at the J Golf Phoenix LPGA International caddying for one of the pros on the LPGA Tour. You can follow him daily with his Caddie Tales.

If you had a big tournament coming up and were going to go out searching for a non-caddie to caddie for you, picking yours truly probably wouldn't be the worst idea. At least that's what I told LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg.

I have played a lot of tournaments with buddies, bosses and even my dad on the bag. Since I was a 14-year-old heading to Wichita Falls, Okla. for the Texas-Oklahoma Junior Golf Tournament, caddying was something I was immersed in.

FanHouse Chats With Natalie Gulbis

In women's sports, there are two types of athletes -- the successful ones and the attractive ones. Luckily for golf fans, Natalie Gulbis is both, a golfer that wins and looks good doing so. Natalie, in partnership with RSM McGladery, hosted a contest all across the nation to find the perfect golfer to tell "Who's Behind Your Success?" Contest winner Taylor Anderson, a student at George Washington University who is paralyzed on his right side but still plays this crazy game, won with a video about his mother. Before Anderson got to enjoy his Sunday with the pro, Gulbis chatted with us about what Taylor could expect, pro-ams, and if she'd ever play on the PGA Tour. She even touched on the media's criticism of Michelle Wie, who just earned her LPGA Tour card at Q-School.

Editor's Note: This interview was conducted early in the week of Dec. 1, prior to Gulbis' meeting with Taylor Anderson.

Shane Bacon:
First, talk about the "Who's Behind Your Success?" contest. What are you and Taylor (Anderson) going to do in Las Vegas?

Natalie Gulbis: I am going to meet him on Sunday. He is going to come in the morning, we are going to work out, and then he is going to play my home golf course with me at Lake Las Vegas, and we have a boatload of gifts and stuff for him and he is going to come over to my house for dinner.


Bacon: And this was a national contest to find the winner?

Gulbis: We ran a national contest that anybody could write in an essay on who's behind your success and then RSM actually narrowed it down to 10, and then I voted on the 10 (to narrow it) to three, as did all the RSM McGladery employees nationwide, then we got it down to three and I picked the winner based on a video.

Bacon: You went to University of Arizona, as did I. You went there, Annika Sorenstam went there, Lorena Ochoa, Erica Blasberg ... what's in the water for the female golfers?

Golf Winners and Losers of the Weekend

Golf is such a crazy game that one week you are enjoying the Playboy Mansion while the next you're asking for pennies outside a McDonald's.

This week was no exception, with multiple winners and losers from around the cruel world of that nasty white ball.

Winners

Phil Mickelson -
Yep, no surprise here. Lefty won his second tournament of the year at the Colonial, capping it off with possibly the shot of the year from the ball-washer on 18 to make a tournament-clinching birdie. Team Mickelson couldn't have had a more timely victory than the one this weekend.

Jay Haas - Oak Hill sure seemed like a fun place to be this week, didn't it? The Champions Tour players got smacked around all week by the Rochester, NY layout, but Haas endured the punches better than everyone else, taking home the Senior PGA Championship at 7-over par! As they say around Tour, a win looks the same on your Wikipedia page.

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