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Good signs for 'Zinger Sony Open victory bodes well for veteran's 2000 season
Posted: Friday January 21, 2000 04:35 PM
Paul Azinger's victory at Hawaii may bode very well for golf's favorite 40-year-old comeback kid. Azinger has won his first event of a season twice before, in 1987 at the Phoenix Open, and in 1990 at the Tournament of Champions. In those seasons, he finished second and fourth on the money list. Duval ready to tame TigerMaybe it was returning to the site of his record 59, but David Duval sounded refeshingly bold before the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. While giving full credit to Tiger Woods for dominating the game over the last six months, Duval didn't back down when asked how how big the difference is between Woods and the next best players. "I think there is less than has been written about," he said, adding that he was looking forward to future battles. "I'm ready to go. Let's see what happens. Let's play." Just the attitude we all want to see. Begay disappointsNotah Begay's arrest for aggravated drunken driving last week in Albuquerque was alarming for a couple of reasons. First, Begay is a promising 27-year-old player who won twice on the PGA Tour last year. Second, he is role model in the Native American community. At least Begay, who has spoken to youth about the dangers of alcohol, was appropriately contrite after the arrest, saying that if it costs him his endorsement contract with Nike, "I deserve it. You do something wrong, you pay the price." Begay also said he may quit drinking entirely, "but who knows?" It's an unsettling question mark. Membership has its privilegesJuli Inkster admits she surprised herself by winning two majors and qualifying for the LPGA Hall of Fame last year, but she thought that by now everyone was used to the idea. Yet, when Inkster recently sent in the $25 annual membership the LPGA charges Hall of Famers, an employee in the tour's accounting department called her to say she was short $250 for the $275 fee applied to regular members.When Inkster submitted that she is in the Hall, the employee said, "Really?'' Laughs Inkster, "I think the person I dealt with was a number cruncher and not much of a golfer." Sports Illustrated senior writer Jaime Diaz covers the golf beat and appears regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated and CNN's Pro Golf Weekly.
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