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Sarasota Golf Course has been a fixture in Sarasota for nearly 30 years.  Not real hard but not easy either lately it has gone way down hill. Greens are being cut long, bunkers are unkept, grass no longer covers all the fairways.  Why the downturn?  Real estate in Florida.  The course happens to be less profitable than an “exciting” new condominium complex they are planning.  What is wrong with the world when condo’s are more cherished than the links.  They could easily sell the course to someone who could make it into a challenging, higher priced with country club style course.  It has length, a decent sized driving range and plenty of room for a nice club house.  Why not give it some love and bring it back to life.  Oh well, maybe they will have mini golf at the condo.

Just a few short years ago Nike was not even a blip on the golf club scene.  Someone over there had a bright idea, sign on with Mr. Golf, Tiger Woods.  Since then they have exploded (along with El Tigre’s paychecks) into the elite club status.  The biggest hit so far has been the SUMO driver with a couple of different variations.  Just check the leaderboards and you can see them popping up as a club of choice with the pros.  K.J. Choi is having his career year, Tiger is going to win player of the year again, life is good at Nike golf. 

Here we go again, big name guy high on the Fedex cup leaderboard not showing up for one of the four tournaments.  He wants to spend some time with the family…doesn’t bode well for the Fedex does it.  You can only entice guys with money at the end of the rainbow not along the way.  Phil won $1.2 million on Monday, do you really think he is all that excited about 10 million spread over a bunch of years?  I think Finchem needs to start the tweaks right away or next year the turn out will be even worse.