Defending U.S. Open champion Ernie Els is in the midst of a three-week break, relaxing in South Africa, where he recently bought a farm. Don't know anything about it, though. My girlfriend knows more about it. She is more a farmer than I am. The TPC at Sugarloaf, site of next week's BellSouth Classic, lost 1,500 trees on April 8th when a tornado blew through Atlanta.
Witnesses say the area looked like a war zone, and the clubhouse was nearly uprooted.
Architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. played golf with pal Bill Clinton last week at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Manassas, W.Va. Despite using borrowed clubs, Jones didn't hurt anybody. Greg Norman has been scratched as the pace car driver for the Indy 500 on May 24th. But I think it would be pretty much a miracle for that to happen. Copyright 1999 GolfWeb - A SportsLineUSA Company.