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04/05/2010
'Stevie, You're Fired!'
Posted at 7:59 AM by Connell Barrett | Categories: Tiger Woods
And hit the road, Sir Charles. If Tiger's serious about changing his ways, he should start with his inner circle. Here's how.
CADDIE
You're fired! Steve Williams You're hired! Bob "Mr. Clean" Chaney
Tiger needs more negative press like he needs a Perkins gift certificate, and the camera-flinging, Phil-bashing Steve Williams is a magnet for controversy. Meet Bob "Mr. Clean" Chaney, so nicknamed for his resemblance to the face on the popular household cleaner. A 65-year-old veteran who has looped for Tour winner Bart Bryant, Chaney has experience, a low-key temperament to soothe Tiger's seething temper, and a hulking frame to part the seas of fans and foes. And who better to keep Tiger honest than a guy called "Mr Clean?"
PGA TOUR MENTOR
You're fired! Mark O'Meara You're hired! David Toms
O'Meara, who now plays the Champions Tour, and Woods are reportedly not as close as they used to be. All around good guy David Toms, 43, is still tapped in to the Big Show, has major-winning cred, and knows about rebuilding after disaster: The Louisiana native's many philanthropic works include relief efforts in New Orleans after Katrina. Bonus: They can bond over having bikini-babe wives.
SWING COACH
You're fired! Hank Haney You're hired! Butch Harmon
If Tiger wants to find the straight and narrow—on the fairway, that is—he should reunite with Harmon, who shaped Woods's swing through 2004, including 2000, when Tiger won three majors, including the U.S. Open by 15 strokes. As Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee told me, "Back in 2000, Tiger hit it farther than everyone by a mile, and was straighter, too." 'Nuff said.
A-LIST PALS
You're fired! Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan You're hired! Tim Tebow and Tim Duncan
Let's do the math. Tiger + Barkley & Jordan x Vegas = Uh oh. The trio's reported booze-and-babe-fueled nights at the MGM Grand's VIP tables created a "culture of adultery," in the words of one sports shrink. The antidote? Team Tim! Squeaky-clean Duncan is married, and his four NBA titles command respect. Tebow, the Heisman-winning stud, has publicly pledged to remain a virgin until marriage. The Tims are more likely to be spotted playing Boggle than blackjack.
AGENCY
You're fired! IMG You're hired! 4U Management
IMG is like IBM: massive, global, corporate. Tiger needs a mom-and-pop shop that feels like a home. Tommy Limbaugh heads Orlando-based 4U Management, which represents Ben Crane and Lee Janzen. He's known as a golf agent who cares. Before the 2010 season, the former college football coach gave an inspiring speech to Team Crane, getting everyone psyched about the coming year. ("Tommy, I will run through a brick wall for you!" one trainer said at the powwow.) After winning the Farmers Insurance Open in January, Crane credited Limbaugh's rah-rah meeting. By many accounts, Tiger's personal life spiraled out of control in part because he became isolated. If IMG has perfected the art of the deal, Limbaugh has perfected the art of the team.
(Bob Chaney, right, with Bart Bryant in 2005. Credit: Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
Monday, April 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
PGA Tour Reports Janzen Joins with Feed The Children
Janzen Joins Forces with Feed The Children
Mar 22, 2010
By PGA TOUR Staff
ORLANDO, Fla.—Take a semi tractor-trailer full of food, add in a two-time U.S. Open
champion and make a stop at the First Baptist Church of Orlando and a lot of good is
going to happen.
Janzen, an Orlando-area resident, will see to that as he assists in the distribution
of food and personal-care items on March 24 that will help 400 families.
This activity is the latest stop on Feed The Children’s Americans Feeding Americans
Emergency Caravan, which has helped more than 40,000 families across the country
in cities affected by the nation’s economic downturn. Feed The Children is planning
similar distributions in more than 20 major American cities this year.
Feed The Children partner agency, First Baptist Church of Orlando, pre-identified the
400 recipient families, and they will be on hand with volunteers to distribute the
supplies. Each family will receive a 25-pound box of food and a 10-pound box of
personal-care items, along with Avon products. The boxes are designed to help a
family for up to one week.
“There are many families struggling in Orlando and throughout Florida during this time
of economic hardship,” said Feed The Children’s Tony Sellars. “We are extremely
grateful for Lee Janzen for partnering with Feed The Children to help serve the
community.”
Florida has the seventh-highest rate of unemployment in the country—more than twice
the rate for the same time in January 2008. Unemployment in Florida has been in the
double-digits since May of 2009. Nearly one in eight Florida citizens lives in poverty,
including 18.3 percent of all children. Children make up nearly one-third of all Floridians
who live in poverty.
Mar 22, 2010
By PGA TOUR Staff
ORLANDO, Fla.—Take a semi tractor-trailer full of food, add in a two-time U.S. Open
champion and make a stop at the First Baptist Church of Orlando and a lot of good is
going to happen.
Janzen, an Orlando-area resident, will see to that as he assists in the distribution
of food and personal-care items on March 24 that will help 400 families.
This activity is the latest stop on Feed The Children’s Americans Feeding Americans
Emergency Caravan, which has helped more than 40,000 families across the country
in cities affected by the nation’s economic downturn. Feed The Children is planning
similar distributions in more than 20 major American cities this year.
Feed The Children partner agency, First Baptist Church of Orlando, pre-identified the
400 recipient families, and they will be on hand with volunteers to distribute the
supplies. Each family will receive a 25-pound box of food and a 10-pound box of
personal-care items, along with Avon products. The boxes are designed to help a
family for up to one week.
“There are many families struggling in Orlando and throughout Florida during this time
of economic hardship,” said Feed The Children’s Tony Sellars. “We are extremely
grateful for Lee Janzen for partnering with Feed The Children to help serve the
community.”
Florida has the seventh-highest rate of unemployment in the country—more than twice
the rate for the same time in January 2008. Unemployment in Florida has been in the
double-digits since May of 2009. Nearly one in eight Florida citizens lives in poverty,
including 18.3 percent of all children. Children make up nearly one-third of all Floridians
who live in poverty.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Lee Janzen to Play Tavistock Cup
Tavistock rosters released; Els and O'Meara return as captainstext size Mar. 17, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Marquee golfers Mark O'Meara and Ernie Els return to captain the annual Tavistock Cup, a unique interclub competition pitting the golf professional members of Isleworth Golf & Country Club against their counterparts at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club.
The seventh edition of the two-day team event will be contested at Isleworth Golf & Country Club on March 22-23.
Tavistock rosters
LAKE NONA ISLEWORTH
Els (cpt.) O'Meara (cpt.)
Curtis Allenby
Fisher Appleby
Goosen Atwal
P.Hanson Cook
Immelman Davis
McDowell Holmes
Poulter Howell
Rose Janzen
Stenson O'Hern
Isleworth and Lake Nona have been doing battle since 2004, the year the officially sanctioned PGA TOUR event debuted at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club. Since the tournament began, O'Meara and Els have led the rival teams each year in their quest to become World Golf and Country Club Champion.
Team Lake Nona has celebrated two Tavistock Cup victories under the leadership of Els, whose resume includes more than 60 worldwide victories, three major championships and last week's World Golf Championships-CA Championship.
Two-time major champion O'Meara has guided Team Isleworth to victory three times, and they lead the Tavistock Cup series 3-2-1.
Team Lake Nona's 10-man lineup includes Els, Ben Curtis, Ross Fisher, Retief Goosen, Peter Hanson, Trevor Immelman, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson. The caliber of talent includes five of the top 25 players in the world.
Team Isleworth's 10-member squad features O'Meara, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Arjun Atwal, John Cook, Brian Davis, J.B. Holmes, Charles Howell III, Lee Janzen and Nick O'Hern.
Team Isleworth has never lost on its home turf.
Through 2009, Tavistock Cup participants have won a combined 54 major championships and more than 725 worldwide victories. Tavistock Cup team members are determined by world rankings and committee selection and are members of either Isleworth Golf & Country Club or Lake Nona Golf & Country Club.
The Tavistock Cup is known for its charitable giving as much as it is for its spirited competition. Since the tournament's inception, Tavistock Cup has donated millions of dollars to organizations around the globe.
In the spirit of Tavistock Cup competition, spectators wear the official team colors of Isleworth Red or Lake Nona Blue to show their support for Team Isleworth or Team Lake Nona.
"This invitation-only event for members, residents, sponsors and invited guests is truly unlike anything in the game of golf," said Andy Odenbach, vice president of sports ventures for Tavistock Group. "We try to create the most relaxed environment possible for both spectators and players alike, but more importantly, we are helping worthy organizations through our charitable initiatives."
Isleworth Golf & Country Club and Lake Nona Golf & Country Club are located within 25 miles of one another and are both owned by Tavistock Group, a privately held investment company.
The Tavistock Cup will be televised live on the GOLF Channel in the U.S., Canada and Japan and to more than 40 countries around the world through international affiliates.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Marquee golfers Mark O'Meara and Ernie Els return to captain the annual Tavistock Cup, a unique interclub competition pitting the golf professional members of Isleworth Golf & Country Club against their counterparts at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club.
The seventh edition of the two-day team event will be contested at Isleworth Golf & Country Club on March 22-23.
Tavistock rosters
LAKE NONA ISLEWORTH
Els (cpt.) O'Meara (cpt.)
Curtis Allenby
Fisher Appleby
Goosen Atwal
P.Hanson Cook
Immelman Davis
McDowell Holmes
Poulter Howell
Rose Janzen
Stenson O'Hern
Isleworth and Lake Nona have been doing battle since 2004, the year the officially sanctioned PGA TOUR event debuted at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club. Since the tournament began, O'Meara and Els have led the rival teams each year in their quest to become World Golf and Country Club Champion.
Team Lake Nona has celebrated two Tavistock Cup victories under the leadership of Els, whose resume includes more than 60 worldwide victories, three major championships and last week's World Golf Championships-CA Championship.
Two-time major champion O'Meara has guided Team Isleworth to victory three times, and they lead the Tavistock Cup series 3-2-1.
Team Lake Nona's 10-man lineup includes Els, Ben Curtis, Ross Fisher, Retief Goosen, Peter Hanson, Trevor Immelman, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson. The caliber of talent includes five of the top 25 players in the world.
Team Isleworth's 10-member squad features O'Meara, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Arjun Atwal, John Cook, Brian Davis, J.B. Holmes, Charles Howell III, Lee Janzen and Nick O'Hern.
Team Isleworth has never lost on its home turf.
Through 2009, Tavistock Cup participants have won a combined 54 major championships and more than 725 worldwide victories. Tavistock Cup team members are determined by world rankings and committee selection and are members of either Isleworth Golf & Country Club or Lake Nona Golf & Country Club.
The Tavistock Cup is known for its charitable giving as much as it is for its spirited competition. Since the tournament's inception, Tavistock Cup has donated millions of dollars to organizations around the globe.
In the spirit of Tavistock Cup competition, spectators wear the official team colors of Isleworth Red or Lake Nona Blue to show their support for Team Isleworth or Team Lake Nona.
"This invitation-only event for members, residents, sponsors and invited guests is truly unlike anything in the game of golf," said Andy Odenbach, vice president of sports ventures for Tavistock Group. "We try to create the most relaxed environment possible for both spectators and players alike, but more importantly, we are helping worthy organizations through our charitable initiatives."
Isleworth Golf & Country Club and Lake Nona Golf & Country Club are located within 25 miles of one another and are both owned by Tavistock Group, a privately held investment company.
The Tavistock Cup will be televised live on the GOLF Channel in the U.S., Canada and Japan and to more than 40 countries around the world through international affiliates.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Janzen to Assist Feed The Children
FEED THE CHILDREN EMERGENCY CARAVAN TO HELP 400 FAMILIES IN ORLANDO
U.S. Champion Lee Janzen to Host Event
Orlando, FL (March 15, 2010) – Feed The Children and two-time U.S. Open Golf Champion Lee Janzen will distribute a semi tractor-trailer full of food and personal care items to help 400 Orlando families First Baptist Church of Orlando (3000 S. John Young Parkway) beginning at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24.
The distribution is the latest stop on Feed The Children’s Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan, which has helped more than 40,000 families across the country in cities that have been affected by the nation’s economic downturn. Feed The Children is planning similar distributions in more than 20 major American cities this year.
Feed The Children partner agency, First Baptist Church of Orlando, pre-identified the 400 recipient families and they will be on hand with volunteers to distribute the supplies. Each family will receive a 25-pound box of food and a 10-pound box of personal care items, along with Avon products. The boxes are designed to help a family for up to one week.
“There are many families struggling in Orlando and throughout Florida during this time of economic hardship,” said Feed The Children Spokesperson Tony Sellars. “We are extremely grateful for Lee Janzen for partnering with Feed The Children to help serve the community.”
Florida families are struggling during these tough economic times. Currently, Florida has the seventh-highest rate of unemployment in the country – more than twice the rate for January 2008, just two years prior. In fact, unemployment in Florida has been in the double-digits since May of 2009. Nearly one in every eight persons in the state lives in poverty, including 18.3 percent of all children. Shockingly, children make up nearly one-third of all Floridians who live in poverty.
Janzen has won eight times on the PGA Tour, most notably the 1993 and 1998 U.S. Open. In 1993, Janzen defeated Payne Stewart at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, en route to tying the 72-hole U.S. Open scoring record of 8-under par. Five years later, Janzen again bested Stewart to win his second U.S. Open, this time at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
About Feed The Children
Founded in 1979, Feed The Children is consistently ranked as one of the 10 largest international charities in the U.S., based on private, non-government support. Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disasters. In FY 2008, Feed The Children distributed more than 133 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing more than 760,000 meals each day. Since its founding, the organization has reached out to help those in need in 119 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit www.feedthechildren.org.
U.S. Champion Lee Janzen to Host Event
Orlando, FL (March 15, 2010) – Feed The Children and two-time U.S. Open Golf Champion Lee Janzen will distribute a semi tractor-trailer full of food and personal care items to help 400 Orlando families First Baptist Church of Orlando (3000 S. John Young Parkway) beginning at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24.
The distribution is the latest stop on Feed The Children’s Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan, which has helped more than 40,000 families across the country in cities that have been affected by the nation’s economic downturn. Feed The Children is planning similar distributions in more than 20 major American cities this year.
Feed The Children partner agency, First Baptist Church of Orlando, pre-identified the 400 recipient families and they will be on hand with volunteers to distribute the supplies. Each family will receive a 25-pound box of food and a 10-pound box of personal care items, along with Avon products. The boxes are designed to help a family for up to one week.
“There are many families struggling in Orlando and throughout Florida during this time of economic hardship,” said Feed The Children Spokesperson Tony Sellars. “We are extremely grateful for Lee Janzen for partnering with Feed The Children to help serve the community.”
Florida families are struggling during these tough economic times. Currently, Florida has the seventh-highest rate of unemployment in the country – more than twice the rate for January 2008, just two years prior. In fact, unemployment in Florida has been in the double-digits since May of 2009. Nearly one in every eight persons in the state lives in poverty, including 18.3 percent of all children. Shockingly, children make up nearly one-third of all Floridians who live in poverty.
Janzen has won eight times on the PGA Tour, most notably the 1993 and 1998 U.S. Open. In 1993, Janzen defeated Payne Stewart at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, en route to tying the 72-hole U.S. Open scoring record of 8-under par. Five years later, Janzen again bested Stewart to win his second U.S. Open, this time at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
About Feed The Children
Founded in 1979, Feed The Children is consistently ranked as one of the 10 largest international charities in the U.S., based on private, non-government support. Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disasters. In FY 2008, Feed The Children distributed more than 133 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing more than 760,000 meals each day. Since its founding, the organization has reached out to help those in need in 119 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit www.feedthechildren.org.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Calm Crane Ends Skid with First Win Since '05
By Tim Rosaforte
Photo by J.D. Cuban
February 8, 2010
Butch Harmon once called Ben Crane the biggest overachiever he has ever coached, but that's not why one of the game's most famous swing instructors jumped on a private jet and flew across the country from the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando. Harmon was on the back end of the range early Sunday morning at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif., for an emergency session with Phil Mickelson, whose errant tee balls were sidetracking his 2010 debut.
While Mickelson was trying to work it out with Harmon, Crane was going to Bible study, preparing for the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open. After the service Crane uncharacteristically interrupted his normal pre-round regimen of quiet to phone his agent, Tommy Limbaugh, in Orlando. "I don't think I've ever walked out of church and taken a call before," Limbaugh said Sunday night. "We talked about how he was going to execute his process. He was pretty calm going in."
He was so calm during the final round that you never would have guessed Crane was staring down pressure, as one by one, the long putts dropped and his opponents fell off the pace. He admitted afterward that he didn't know where he stood, which helps in part to explain how he made the closing 30-inch putt for the win after an inexplicable miss from close to that distance on the 17th hole. The final-hole par helped Crane finish at 13-under 275, one stroke better than Marc Leishman, Michael Sim and Brandt Snedeker.
The stage for the victory was set two months earlier, in a meeting the week after Thanksgiving held, coincidentally, at DelMar CC, 10 minutes from Torrey Pines in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Orchestrated by Limbaugh and attended by everyone in Crane's camp, including his caddie, his swing coach and his strength and conditioning guys, the sessions included both prayer and power-point presentations. The first page Limbaugh flashed on a screen: Ben Crane, taking it to the next level.
"We were motivated and united," says Limbaugh, who organized the session to spur the 33-year-old Crane to end a four-year winless drought. "Everybody had the same heartbeat when we came out of there, and it has been that way ever since."
What Limbaugh refers to as "staying in the process" comes not only from his coaching background -- he was an assistant football coach for 21 years at Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Duke, Alabama and Kentucky -- but also from Olympic marksman turned sport psychologist Lanny Bassham. Crane worked hard this offseason at The Madison Club in La Quinta, Calif., where the old football coach put him through "two-a-days." Bassham flew in for those, and was with Crane at the Bob Hope Classic, where he finished T-52 in his season debut.
The outcome of the Farmers Insurance Open was in doubt until the 72nd hole. By then the tournament's star attractions -- Mickelson (19th) and Ernie Els (T-5) -- had fallen off the pace, leaving Crane to be chased by some of the best young talent on tour. Sim, 25, the 2009 Nationwide Tour player of the year, disappointed many by laying up from 246 yards at the 72nd hole and failing to make birdie. Snedeker, third in the 2007 Buick Invitational, and Leishman, the 2009 PGA Tour rookie of the year, both grazed the edge at 18 to tie Sim for second. Rickie Fowler, 21, also made a run after opening his rookie season with two missed cuts and looked comfortable in the hunt playing with Mickelson until a double bogey at 17.
Crane kept applying the pressure by hitting greens in regulation, missing only one in his last 22 holes -- although he had no idea he was the front-runner. Crane refuses to look at leader boards. "I did not know that I had won when it was over," he said. "I didn't know who was playing well. I didn't know what was going on in front of me. Certainly the cameras followed us most of the day. But I did not know if someone ahead of me had posted a better score."
What went on was Crane's third career victory -- and maybe not his last. His work with Dr. Greg Rose of the Titleist Performance Institute, both on fitness and simplifying his golf swing, have Crane relatively pain free both in body and mind (a back injury limited him to seven starts in 2007). Not even being falsely quoted about Tiger Woods in a supermarket gossip magazine in December could push Crane, as Bassham would say, off his mark.
Crane may have not known he was winning the tournament, but he knows now he is in the Masters and on to better things. Once considered one of the slowest golfers on tour, his pace of play is improving, and he saves time by converting long putts -- he made two from more than 45 feet Sunday, offsetting the miss at 17 that cut his lead to one stroke with one hole to play. This was by far his biggest victory, and while Crane was thanking God for "a sense of peace that surpassed all understanding," he has a less humble competitive side driven by Harmon's description of him as an overachiever.
"He would beat his great grandmother at dominoes if he could," Limbaugh said. "He would have no mercy. He would be nice about it, though. He would love her to death after he beat her."
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Ben Crane Wins Headed to The Masters
4U client Ben Crane won the 3rd PGA Tour event of his career today. He fired a final round 2 under par at The Farmer's Insurance Open on the Torrey Pines South Course in Lajolla, California. Ben defeated Michael Sim, Brandt Snedeker and Marc Leishman by one shot for the biggest victory of his career. This ended a 5 year drought without a win. His 2 previous wins were in Atlanta and Milwaukee. Ben made 2 birdie putts over 40 feet in route to this victory. Torrey Pines is one of the toughest courses on tour and was host to the U.S. Open in 2008 when Tiger Woods defeated Rocco Mediate in a Monday play-off.
This win changes Crane's outlook on the season. He will now be going back to Augusta National and The Masters. His victory should also put him inside the top 60 and qualify him for the Match Play. He is also now qualified to open the season next year in Maui at the SBS Championship.
This win changes Crane's outlook on the season. He will now be going back to Augusta National and The Masters. His victory should also put him inside the top 60 and qualify him for the Match Play. He is also now qualified to open the season next year in Maui at the SBS Championship.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Steve Lowery New Client for 4U Management
Last night, January 26th, Steve Lowery became the newest 4U Management client. Lowery is a 3-time winner on the PGA Tour and in the top 50 on the career money list. His last victory was the 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
"I met with Heather and Steve Lowery in Palm Springs last week" said 4U management Founder and President Tommy Limbaugh. "He informed me last night in San Diego that they wanted to be represented by 4U."
"This is an exciting day at 4U Management," said Limbaugh, "we look forward to being a part of what has already been a very succesful career."
"I met with Heather and Steve Lowery in Palm Springs last week" said 4U management Founder and President Tommy Limbaugh. "He informed me last night in San Diego that they wanted to be represented by 4U."
"This is an exciting day at 4U Management," said Limbaugh, "we look forward to being a part of what has already been a very succesful career."
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