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Paul Azinger is a PGA champion long known as someone who says what he thinks, usually with some degree of clarity, which makes him a good fit as a TV analyst. And that's what he does now for NBC and at the U.S. Open for Fox. He could have started much sooner if not for 20 years ago at the Sony Open.KAPALUA, Hawaii — Paul Azinger is a PGA champion long known as someone who says what he thinks, usually with some degree of clarity, which makes him a good fit as a TV analyst.
Equipped with a belly putter that soon became the rage — and got the attention of rules makers who eventually outlawed the stroke to use it — Azinger shot 63-65 and was on his way to a wire-to-wire victory.Azinger revealed last week that CBS Sports had talked to him about taking over in the booth from Ken Venturi, who was nearing retirement. Azinger was 39.
But Azinger never won again. He had only one other runner-up — to Tiger Woods by seven shots at the Memorial in 2001 — and eventually switched over to TV in 2005.Leading golf authorities spent some seven years coming up with a modern set of rules. It took about that long to develop a handicap system everyone in the world can use.
“There were six systems worldwide and they were each good. It's not that any of them had flaws,” said Steve Edmondson, the USGA's director of handicap and course rating. “That wasn't the driving factor. We wanted a single set of rules for measurement of a golfer's ability anywhere in the world.” Ancer says they have been working on it for the last year and the tequila should be available in Texas next month.
“They're already drunk and they have tequila shots — it's probably pretty bad tequila — and you mix it and ... yeah, you end up throwing up,” he said. “You wake up and you remember, ‘Wow, that tequila really did me.’ We're trying to get the culture to understand how tequila works.”Brooks Koepka is now 1-up on Rory McIlroy in player-of-the-year awards, and he drew even when it involved a vote.
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