I think the winner on Sunday will be the one who leaves his driver in the bag, and uses the long irons to master the slope of the course. Martin had the Open's longest drive, a 373-yarder on the 6th hole. Inspired, perhaps, by the million-dollar bathrooms unveiled at this year's Masters, the USGA rolled out its own posh privies at the Open. All 1,000 were gone three days before play began.
Private jets are passe.
Nick Price has joined Greg Norman, Arnold Palmer and others who helicopter to and from their golf outings. Sorenstam revealed that a sponsor's exemption to the 1996 Friendly's had saved her life. She was ticketed on TWA Flight 800, which crashed off Long Island, killing all 230 aboard, until a last-minute invitation from the Friendly's changed her plans. The job will give her more time with Bert, who suffers from epilepsy. Descriptions of the rough at Olympic sounded like a casting call for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .