Video: Ken Duke really needs to take some dance lessons

Let me start off my saying that I have no problem with guys celebrating after a hole-out. Heck, the last time I knocked one in from just outside 150 yards, I took off in a full sprint towards to the hole, jumping up and down the entire way. Great golf shots tend to bring out the kid in all of us.

However, after watching Ken Duke celebrate a hole-out yesterday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, I think everyone here should consider chipping in to get this guy some dance lessons. Yeesh. I'm not sure what that is, but it sure as hell isn't a celebration dance.

But I guess we can't be too hard on Mr. Duke: He shot 28 yesterday on the back nine at Pebble Beach -- which happens to be a tournament record -- so he's clearly on his game on the moment.

Karrie Webb gets a serious assist from the gallery

Karrie Webb is playing in her native Oz this week's for the Women's Australian Open, which meant she was going to have a good following, and some local knowledge, when she teed it up at Royal Melbourne. (Editor's note: Shane's at RM this week and I think I speak for everyone when I say that I truly hate you sometimes, dude.)

What she didn't expect, however, was for the gallery to save her from incurring a two-stroke penalty during the first round. Laboring through the first 12 holes, Webb was struggling to make bogey when she arrived on the green of the difficult 13th hole. After being asked by her playing partner, Yani Tseng, to move her ball mark, Webb committed a cardinal sin byaccidentally replacing her ball mark in the wrong spot (she placed it further away from her original mark).

Had she putted from that spot, Webb would have been forced to tack on two-strokes. But here's where the story gets interesting. As The Age reported, a guy in the gallery yelled out "Excuse me!" as she was approaching her ball, causing Webb to back off and glare at what many thought was a heckler.

It was actually a local club golfer notifying Webb of her error. Talk about getting some home cookin' from the local fans. Webb went on to replace her mark, bogey the hole and shoot 2-over for the day. But needless to say, the wheels could have really come off if she'd taken a two-stroke penalty for the silly mistake.

I wish I could get that kind of assist from my buddies when I played golf. But knowing how cutthroat some of them are, I'm pretty sure they'd tell me about the penalty after the fact, and then take my money.

Rory McIlroy Once Posed As a Fake Photographer To Watch Tiger Woods

Here is a story that shows just how important Tiger Woods is to golf and just how young a lot of the golfers are compared to Tiger these days. Rory McIlroy told the U.K. version of ESPN (Ed. Note: Think all they talk about is Tim Tebow as well?) that he once posed as a photographer to get close to Woods in Dubai.

"I remember I played on Thursday morning, and then on Thursday afternoon Tiger Woods was playing," McIlroy said. "I came out in the afternoon and took one of the photographer’s cameras off of him and was able to follow inside the ropes, which was pretty cool. That was my first real taste of Dubai, and I’ve been coming back every year since."

Ahh, look how cute Rory is?!

I do think this is a fun image to conjure up. When I was in college once I convinced a security guard at the Tucson Open that my buddy was my cameraman to get him in for free, so I guess it isn't the first time someone has done this, but news flash, my buddy didn't win the U.S. Open by eight shots as a 22-year-old (Sorry, Will).

I love that deep down every professional athlete is still a big fan of the game, and of greatness, and has always done what they could to see the best play their favorite sport.

McIlroy was a child prodigy much like Tiger, so seeing Woods in the flesh was probably soothing for the young Irishman, and now look at him ... a spitting image of Tiger right down to the developing biceps.

 I bet somewhere, a young kid is sneaking into golf tournaments in 2012 to watch Rory that will eventually win majors. It's just the beauty of the sports cycle.

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Spencer Levin Will Not Be Reading This Blog Post

Or anything on the Internet, for that matter. That's because Spencer Levin has the technological desire of a wombat. Asked about the uplifting nature of the masses after Kyle Stanley's collapse at Torrey Pines, Levin said it would be impossible for groups to do the same for him since he looks at technology the same way Phil Mickelson looks at layup yardages.

"I've got an email, but I haven't checked it in about eight years," Levin said on Wednesday. "I think I dropped my cell phone in the water or whatever somewhere [last winter], and then I just haven't bothered to get a new one. I have no desire to."

Ten bucks says his e-mail is something like chainsmokinggolfer@hotmail.com. Anyone want to bet?

It is one of the beauties of all professional sports; the differences in personalities. For every Bubba Watson that replies to basically anything you send the guy on Twitter ("thanks" "yep "thx"), you have youngsters like Spencer would couldn't care less about being on the computer and just wants to go out and play and hang out.

Honestly, we could probably use more young people like Spencer, who still know how to enjoy their lives without their faces stuck directly behind the glow of a device screen (I'm the most guilty of anyone about this).

It Appears I Won't Be Playing Golf in Texas Anytime Soon

I was born in Texas. Grew up there. Knew nothing but the Lone Star State and bluebonnets and David Crockett and the San Jacinto Monument. But the one thing I know the most about Texas is there are some wacky ass people there.


Introduce a gentleman in Fort Worth that, after being approached by another man about letting the group through, stabbed the guy in the leg with the broken end of a golf club resulting in the guy possibly losing his freaking leg because of it. Seriously.

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clay Carpenter approached a foursome in front of him asking if his group could play through. Words were exchanged and the person that eventually stabbed Carpenter in the leg swung a club at him first, missed, and then broke the club and bludgeoned the poor 48-year-old with it.

Here are the details ...

A foursome was playing the back nine ahead of a threesome, Grisham said, and the three golfers believed the foursome was playing too slow and wanted to play through. 

Carpenter said a course marshal instructed the foursome to allow the smaller group of golfers to play through, and that’s when the "gentleman’s game" turned ugly. 

As the golfers were fighting, Carpenter said he was on top of another man when he was stabbed with the golf shaft. Grisham said Carpenter lost a lot of blood and was "very close to death." 

Carpenter said the man who stabbed him "was not willing to defuse anything, nor was he willing to accept 'please just let us go on.' " Carpenter said he believes that the golfer who stabbed him first swung the golf club at his head, but he grabbed it and broke it off at the end.

I mean, people are crazy and when you mix that with golfers plus Texas it is bound to get nasty, but seriously? Stabbing a dude because you guys are too slow?

Let us quickly go over some common golf courtesy rules thanks to Johnny Psychopath.

-- Don't keep the group behind you waiting.
-- If you are, and the group wants to play through, let them.
-- If the group that is pushing you wants to play through, don't stab them with anything that could threaten their life.

Alright, glad we got those out there.

Rory McIlroy Really Likes His Famous Girlfriend

Maybe I'm completely off here, but I think there are two types of people; those that are perfectly fine being alone and those that are always in and out of relationships for fear of having to spend a day without someone to snuggle up with.

The past year or so has shown us that Rory McIlroy, world beating golfer, is definitely the latter. The picture above is McIlroy, playing a practice round this week at the Dubai Desert Classic, with girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki watching ohsoclose to the pro golfer.

Pro golfers out there reading this, would you mind doing me one favor? Don't have your girlfriends stand so close to you when you're playing golf that it makes people question if the picture was staged, and please, please date girls with easier last names to spell. Thank you.

(One more Wozy pic after the jump)

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Spencer Levin battles cactus bush ... and loses

You have to feel for Spencer Levin. Not only did the kid blow a six-shot at the Waste Management Open (it was actually seven at one point during the day), he also suffered this humbling moment on the back nine. After knocking his tee-shot in the Cholla, Levin was forced to use his belly putter to hack back into play -- but not before the bush exacted some revenge by leaving Levin with a wonderful parting gift.

His caddie, Mike Hicks, had to pull two pieces off his rib cage, and another off his rear. That's never a good thing, especially when the moment is captured on national television ... and then gets thrown up on YouTube by the PGA Tour. I don't think guys will let him forget about this one.