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TheGasman said:

Why are the Caddies wearing Giants jerseys, im going to be sick.

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On eve of the Presidents Cup, Americans resort to shameless pandering

10.07.09 | 12:15 PM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Among Paul Azinger's other ploys as U.S. Ryder Cup captain was to have his players hand out thousands of American lapel pins to fans during the practice rounds.

Fred Couples has opted for a different route at Harding Park, draping the American caddies today in San Francisco Giants jerseys.

A couple of questions on this:

How does Tiger Woods, a supposed Dodgers fan, honestly feel about his caddie wearing the dreaded orange and black (although, of course it was Williams who scored Willie Mays' 24?)

And finally, will this assure that the thousands of A's fans in attendance this week will root for the Internationals?

Update: A couple of pressing details. The Giants idea was apparently the brainchild of John Wood, Hunter Mahan's caddie and a huge Giants fan. Also, not sure what to make of Steve Stricker caddie Jim Johnson wearing the 25 made famous by the maligned Barry Bonds.

-- Sam Weinman

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Harry Longshanks said:

I like the USA team sweaters today:

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JB said:

Put back on your jorts and head over to your school.

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ClairefromClare said:

The X of death. Maybe a link?

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morganpressel Question of the day....where in the world is Morgan Pressel??

about 2 hours ago from UberTwitter

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HarryLongshanks @morganpressel Pure guess: Austin?

about 2 hours ago from web in reply to morganpressel

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Spoiler

morganpressel http://twitpic.com/l1bh9In a sea of burnt orange!!

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tiffjoh has some serious competition for my

morganpressel This place is going crazy!!!!

11 minutes ago from UberTwitter

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morganpressel Madi and I had lots of fun at the game Getting the college experience without all the work!

35 minutes ago from web

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morganpressel RT @ronsirak Morgan Pressel's Golf World column on breast cancer: Golf: Morgan Pressel: My Story: Golf Digest Magazine

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My Story
Raising money and awareness to stop breast cancer

Chipping in: Since losing her mom to breast cancer in '03, Pressel has been active in the
fight against the disease, including her fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla.

By Morgan Pressel
Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images

October 19, 2009

Breast cancer has been a part of my life since I was 11 years old. That's when my parents sat the three of us down at the kitchen table—my sister was three years younger than me and my brother five years younger—and Dad told us our mother was sick. They were trying to explain to three little kids that their mother has a life-threatening illness, and we just didn't understand. My mom, Kathy Krickstein Pressel, was 39 that day. Four years later breast cancer took her from us.

As a kid you think those you care about have a magical protection. When bad news comes, you tell yourself everything will be OK, even if you don't believe it. You just keep saying, "She'll be fine, she'll be fine, she'll be fine." The thing about cancer patients is that until they lose their hair they don't really look sick. When you live with someone with cancer, it is easy to lose sight of the fact she is sick. When Mom started to lose a little bit of energy, that was the first thing I noticed.

When Mom lost her hair that was hard for her, and for us to see her with a wig, or a hat. We all had to stay positive for her. She had a mastectomy and then chemotherapy. Then she was in remission for two and a half years and we all thought everything was fine. But it came back as stage IV cancer.

Maybe it was because I was older or because it affected her differently, but I noticed it more this time. She only lived a year and a half after the cancer returned, and it was much different than the first bout. When she watched me play in the 2001 U.S. Women's Open when I was 13, people had no idea she was sick. Two years later at the Doherty Championship, the year she died, she was visibly sick. It was 30 degrees and she was all wrapped up in blankets, but she was still out there to watch me.

Even before I became a professional golfer I knew I wanted to help raise money for research and early detection. Two years ago, I started the Morgan & Friends Fight Cancer Tournament, which will be played Jan. 4-5, 2010 at St. Andrews CC in Boca Raton, Fla. With the help of Polo Ralph Lauren, we have also raised funds selling the Pink Pony "Morgan shirt." These efforts have raised nearly $1 million for the Lynn Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Center at Boca Raton Community Hospital and the Sylvester Cancer Center at the University of Miami. Recent efforts through Boca Raton Hospital Foundation's Go Pink Challenge resulted in the purchase of the Kathryn Krickstein Pressel MonnoVan which will provide traveling state-of-the-art digital mammography to the residents of Palm Beach County.

Just as important as the money is the need to increase awareness. That's why campaigns like this Golf World Pink Issue are important. We must tell the stories of women such as Missy Farr-Kaye, who you will read about in this issue.

We need to bring the message of early detection to everyone. Medical equipment is better; doctors now have so much experience with the disease, they're getting better at pinpointing and combating it. But when you are diagnosed at stage IV, it doesn't matter who your doctor is because the cancer has probably already spread too far.

You can't sit there and think this won't happen to me. Women need to get mammograms and do self-examinations. The men in their lives need to support and encourage them. The earlier you find it, the better off you are, there is no question about that. Think about the women on our tour and how many will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Maybe it will be me. And if that day comes, hopefully I'll have the best care possible and maybe there will even be a cure.

That's what we are all working toward—a cure. We want to end those tearful kitchen-table conversations where Daddy tells three young children that Mommy is sick.

We can do this. We must do this. We will do this.

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And they say nothing happens in the Fall Series

10.26.09 | 4:36 PM

When you think of golf pioneers, the mind spans the giants of the game such as Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and of course, Parker McLachlin.

Wait, what? Well, think about it: while Palmer and Woods have both been credited with bringing golf to the masses, neither has been able to do so as directly as McLachlan, who violated PGA Tour policy for a first-ever in-tournament tweet during the final round of the Frys.com Open on Sunday.

The post itself wasn't terribly revealing (it read: "Just made birdie on 4. Waiting on 5th tee. First tweet during a tourney round. Don't want to get too used to this!") but it was still enough to elicit a phone call from PGA Tour executive vice president Rick George, who informed an unwitting McLachlan that he was breaking Tour policy.

For those scoring at home, the rule broken was for the use of electronic devices during competition, and not, as we first suspected, for a superfluous use of an exclamation point.

McLachlan elaborated on the infraction to ESPN.com's Jason Sobel:

"Basically, in [Sunday's] round we had a pretty long wait on the back nine sitting on the tee," McLachlin said. "The guys that I was playing with [Brad Faxon and Glen Day] were checking football scores and someone yelled out, 'You should tweet about what you're doing right now.' I was like, that's a good idea. I didn't really think too much about it."

According to Sobel, both Faxon and Day also technically violated PGA Tour rules for checking football scores on a cell phone.

Man, you'd think if guys were going to go to all the trouble of cheating, they'd at least do something that could work to their advantage.

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soxngolf said:

Do you think Morgan will return to Twitter? I thought she would have once the season started, maybe waiting until a return to the states? I hope so.

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soxngolf said:

Do you think Morgan will return to Twitter? I thought she would have once the season started, maybe waiting until a return to the states? I hope so.

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JB said:

We asked her agent that last week and he sounded "confused". I said "for someone that was pretty much on there all the time, she dropped off, did something happen?" He did not have any idea what was going on. It was as if I asked him about nuclear physics.

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