Golf World - August 20, 2012

years later is in black and white but equally haunting. Snead is very tentative on a 25-foot putt against Lew Worsham but lining up a 30-incher when Worsham pauses the action by asking for a measurement. Angry and distracted, Snead hits another bad putt missing the cup on the right.

More than a half-century later,
there is still hurt and disbelief in
Snead’s voice. The pictures are a vivid
testament why. —Bill Fields

pga tour

Westwood, Cowen split
after pGA missed cut

�� Lee Westwood, who has yet to win a
major in his 19 years as a professional
but has finished in the top three seven
times since 2008, including this year’s
Masters, has split from coach Pete
Cowen. “Lee admits he needed to
shake things up,” said his manager
Andrew (Chubby) Chandler. “He’d
lost his focus and enthusiasm a bit.”
Westwood missed the cut in the
PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
Cowen also works with Darren
Clarke, Graeme McDowell and Louis
Oosthuizen. Westwood, 39, also fired
Mike Waite, who has been filling in
as his caddie since Billy Foster went
down with a knee injury in May. Mike
Kerr, who worked for Alvaro Quiros,
will take over until Foster returns
next year. —Ron Sirak.

Lee Westwood

miscellany

Just in…

�� The overnight Nielsen ratings for the final round of Rory McIlroy’s runaway victory in the PGA Championship were down 9 percent from Keegan’s Bradley’s playoff win over Jason Dufner last year but up 30 percent from the last time the tournament went up against Olympic coverage. Sunday’s coverage from Kiawah Island pulled a 3. 9 rating while last year’s closing round from Atlanta AC got a 4. 3. When the PGA Championship went against the Olympics in 2008, the rating was 3.0. The top-rated overnight market was West Palm Beach, Fla., where the rating was 7. 4.

… Bellerive CC in St. Louis has been selected to host the centennial PGA Championship in 2018. It will also host the 2013 Senior PGA Championship. The club, founded in 1897, has previously hosted the 1965 U.S. Open and the 2004 U.S. Senior Open. … PGA National Resort & Spa’s new Fazio Course will open Nov. 1. “The Fazio” is a renovation of “The Haig”—PGA National’s original 18-hole course opened in 1980. Tom Fazio II redesigned the layout, becoming the third generation of Fazios to work on the course originally designed by George and Tom Fazio in tribute to five-time PGA Championship winner Walter Hagen. n

LipOUTS

“With Augusta in the name,
you’ve got that lure as a golfer.
Georgia Regents is so uninspira-
tional. I don’t think academics
will change much. From a sports
perspective, it’s disastrous.”
–Jake amos,
member of Augusta State’s 2010-11
NCAA championship golf team,
on the school’s name change to
Georgia Regents University.

“It was inspiring. It was lots of
fun. I didn’t pick up a golf club.
It was good for me.”
–Yani tseng,
slumping Rolex Rankings No. 1,
who went to London for the Sum-
mer Olympics, where she watched
swimming, diving, archery,
basketball, tennis, and table ten-
nis, prior to returning to the U.S. for
the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic.

“Michael has a lot of time to
work on things. And he badly
wants to be a good golfer. But
that’s a ways off. Right no w,
he is just a little bit past the
complete beginner stage. So
we have some work to do.”
–hank hane Y,
on swimmer Michael Phelps,
who will appear on this season’s
“Haney Project” on Golf Channel.

“The last few years I think the
fan base has lost a little faith
in the team, and we’ll see if we
can turn that around.”
–phil mickelson,
who is part of an ownership group
that includes former Los Angeles
Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley that
recently agreed to purchase the
San Diego Padres.

“If I never play golf again, I can
still be a great dad. That’s the
key, and that’s where my life
stands.”
–BuBBa Watson,
on being a father to son Caleb,
whose adoption was finalized
Monday of PGA Championship
week.