
| Posted: Wednesday November 29, 2006 4:08PM; Updated: Wednesday November 29, 2006 4:10PM After two straight years in the top 10 on the PGA Tour money list, Sergio Garcia fell to No. 49 this year, and it wasn't hard to see why. His biggest problem was Sunday. Garcia didn't break par in the final round of a PGA Tour event until a 69 at the Memorial. Of the 12 cuts he made on tour, he broke par only three times in the final round and broke 70 just twice. His final-round scoring average was 72.9, which placed him 181st among 196 players and 4.2 shots behind Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods gave a demonstration for the new Nike SasQuatch Sumo2 and Sumo drivers Tuesday, driving the ball down the runway at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport. No one was on the other end of the runway to chart driving distance. The Sumo 2 isn't in his bag yet; he's still using the Nike SasQuatch driver that hit the market last year. He's still testing and tinkering with the new club - which Nike deems "radical geometry" - and hasn't clicked with it just yet. Donald Trump, the real estate developer, television star and enthusiastic amateur golfer, wants to build a golf resort in the north-east of Scotland. Whether the R&A can be persuaded to stage the oldest major championship on a new course is a subject for future debate but the Trump organization faces more immediate problems as it seeks to transform 1,400 acres of coastline north of Aberdeen into a golfers' paradise. The PGA Tour Q-School final tees off Wednesday with 163 hopefuls grinding their way through six days and 108 holes in their quest for a 2007 PGA Tour card. Among the big names in the field are two-time U.S. Open champ Lee Janzen and PGA Tour event winners such as Brent Geiberger, Chris Riley and Duffy Waldorf. In Daytona Beach, the women will be holding their Q-school with some of the players including 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur winner Jane Park, Angela Park, Naree Song, Charlotta Sorenstam, Erica Blasberg, Liz Janangelo, 2002 U.S. Women's Amateur champ Becky Lucidi and 2005 Solheim Cupper Gwladys Nocera. Jerry Kelly led the PGA Tour this year in one of the more peculiar statistics -- most tournaments with all four rounds in the 60s without winning. Kelly did it five times. He wound up 39th on the money list, although he didn't win until the Merrill Lynch Shootout, a week after the official season ended. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||