Golf Central

Where the hell...?: For once it's not my fault...
Don't tell me, the dog ate your laptop...: Look, there's barely a corner of the golfing globe this weekend where the weather wasn't rubbish and playing a top-line event in Florida at this time of year practically guarantees rain. Then some more rain. And some bolts of lightning...
Clearly they should have listened to you and not even bothered starting the tournament...: At least it would have saved me the indignity of being the victim of your rapier-like wit.
It also would have saved you from looking like a damn fool: So you heard that Geoff Ogilvy won, then... Obviously I regret running that cheeky caption after Day One about you enjoying him while you can before Tiger and Phil took matters into their own hands...
Does that also mean you lost money on Tiger as well?: Only the reckless and the super-rich can make money from betting on Tiger these days, although it looked tempting once he started putting the squeeze on this morning, cutting Ogilvy's lead from five to just two shots, giving himself birdie putts on each of the seven holes he played today (and still missing four of them!)
How did Ogilvy close out the win?: For once someone other than Tiger got lucky. Staring at a bogey at best on the par-3 13th, Ogilvy chipped in with his third shot for a ridiculous par. He carded a 71 for a total score of 271, a shot clear of Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen and Vijay Singh in second, with Tiger a further shot back in fifth place.
So that's the end of the streak, then...: Hard to stifle a yawn with that level of insight. I was more interested in Ogilvy's 60-hole streak without carding a bogey. If he'd managed another 12 he would have been the first player to go a whole tournament bogey-free since Lee Lee Trevino in 1974.
You know, you've almost won back my respect with that fascinating golf fact...: I found it of the WGC site, actually.
Why do I bother...?: Because I do all the donkey work and still make you look good...

Lin Wen-tang of Chinese Taipei showed the world how to close out a golf tournament with a a final round 64 for a 23-under par total of 265 in Chonburi, Thailand. Teenage Korean Noh Seung-yul was five shots back, with Malaysia's Ben Leong, Mardan Mamat of Singapore, Marcus Both of Australia, Japan's Taichiro Kiyota and Han Lee of the US in an uncomfortable scrum for third place.

You'd think that after 378 tour starts with no winner's cheque, Greg Kraft might well have thought it was never meant to be. But the journeyman 44-year-old from Detroit beat Bo Van Pelt and Jerry Kelly to win The Puerto Rico Open with a 14-under score of 274.

Readers are welcome to send in any interesting information they can find on Kraft. All we managed was one of the dullest biographical quotes from his PGATour.com profile (and that's saying something). Check this baby out: "Interested in race cars of any kind, but hastens to add: 'I'm not so interested that I would attempt to drive one anytime soon.'"

Surely there's more to the man than this...

Alastair Forsyth won his second European Tour event after being Hennie Otto in a play-off for the Madeira Island Open title in Portugal. Both players carded 15-under scores of 273, with Forsyth making the most of the miserable conditions to score a birdie at the first extra hole, trousering the 116,660 euros winner's cheque in the process.

A field with Bradley Dredge as the star turn hardly set the pulse racing with the big boys battling it out on The Blue Monster at Doral, but at least a depleted field gave Faldo Series graduate Ben Evans the opportunity to shoot a final round 66 to finish tied for 10th place in only his third European start.