The PGA Tour needs fewer `nice guys` like Zach Johnson
Released on = April 18, 2007, 9:07 am
Press Release Author = GolfPublisher Syndications
Industry = Media
Press Release Summary = The PGA Tour needs real twenty-something attitude. Golf columns at WorldGolf.com
Press Release Body = By Brandon Tucker, Staff Writer, Golf Publisher Syndications
Twenty-something Zach Johnson\'s 2007 Masters win was a crowning achievement for the United States\' new generation of golfers - who all seem to have personalities as bland as Wonderbread.
The LPGA has a new class of young hotties. The PGA\'s newbies are stiffs. Johnson, while respectful, isn\'t representative of us unruly twenty-somethings. I want someone oozing with charisma and lacking etiquette.
In other words, the Tour needs.me.
If I had the game to compete on the PGA Tour (about 15 shots and two sets of tees away), I wouldn\'t win very much but I\'d sure stand out from all the other corporate clones.
Here\'s a few reasons why:
Caddies: I wouldn\'t hire a professional caddie. I\'d switch my bag boy each week. Maybe one of my childhood buddies is in credit card debt up to his nostrils, so I\'d let him carry for me one tournament to help pay it off. Then the following week in Miami I\'d find some leggy, groupie stripper to carry my sticks in a bikini top. Then I would rent a baby elephant and he could haul the clubs for me in Dubai.
I don\'t need a grizzled loser who was never good enough to make it on tour telling where my putts are going to break, and I know how to operate a ball washer.
Jive-talkin\': Everyone is so damn respectful of each other on tour. It couldn\'t be more amicable/uninteresting. Everyone knows their playing partner the night before, so when asked by the press, I would fire-start: \"I\'m looking forward to playing with Mike Weir, because it will re-affirm my belief that left-handed golfers are inferior\" or \"I\'m hoping Sergio watches my putting a little tomorrow during the round because he needs any help he can get.\"
Hat not for sale: Nothing makes me madder on a golf course (besides beverage carts out of Dr. Pepper) than seeing all these amateur hacks sporting manufacturer\'s ugly and boring golf hats. The pros are getting paid thousands of dollars to wear these hideous things. You shouldn\'t pay $19 to wear one. For me, headwear is a definitive piece of expression. Instead of Callaway or Ping, I\'d rep my faded Detroit Tigers hat or the flaming \"H\" logo from my high school in Ann Arbor
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