Golf Central

On this day in 1980, 28 years before Tiger Woods uttered his now-legendary F-bombs last week at Doral, Tom Kite and Lanny Wadkins were caught up in a microphone vortex of the old PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman's doing when both said things they probably regretted on live microphones during an experimental TV broadcast.

The place was at the then-Heritage Classic - the tour stop universally known as "Harbour Town" on the PGA Tour. Several players were approached for live mic-ing (Jack Nicklaus, among others, declined) but several players at Harbour Town were fitted with live mics, and some of them forgot what they were doing ...

The gentlemanly Kite was caught out whingeing about the slow play of John Schroeder in the group ahead, saying Schroeder should be "punished or fined". Wadkins was heard offering up four-letter missives whenever things didn't go his way and/or when he forgot the mics were live. Kite is enshrined in the World Golf Hall of Fame, and Wadkins isn't ... And perhaps that's partially because the world's golf press vote for the Hall of Fame, and John Schroeder doesn't ...

There's a real world outside of golf, and in it, on March 29, 1971 mass murderer Charles Manson and three other hippie psychos were sentenced to death by a jury in Los Angeles for the Tate-La Bianca slaughters. Reality check: The California death penalty was abolished, then brought back, and Manson is still alive, aged 73, at Corcoran State Prison ...

And strangely enough, it was on this day that the front-runner for the US Democratic nod in the 1992 US presidential election, Bill Clinton, confessed to having experimented with marijuana "a time or two" at university in Oxford. However, Clinton said he "didn't inhale". Those dirty rotten Oxford students should have taught the future president how to toke properly, or at least lie better! ...

So, it's Kirk Triplett! as they say in Moses Lake, Washington, to a pair of 65-year-olds: Pythoner Eric Idle (nudge-nudge) is still looking on the bright side of life, as is former British PM John Major; Aussie super-babe Elle Macpherson is 45 (God doesn't she still look young on those brain cells of ours!) and former tennis starlet Jen Capriati is 32 and still has never touched a joint or anything that doesn't belong to her, she swears ... 'Til tomorrow!