Look out "Mike and Mike in the Morning." Tiger Woods might have a new favorite radio show after Craig Carton from WFAN-New York's "Boomer and Carton" radio show called Hank Haney a "snake in the grass" -- among other things -- for writing a book about his former student Tiger Woods. The full interview is online here.

Haney appeared on the morning sports show to promote his Tiger Woods book, "The Big Miss," which was released this week. Haney has spoken of the book as a testament to Woods's greatness, but Carton said it was a violation of Woods's trust.

Haney responded that he has received mostly positive responses from people who have read the book, and that he did not cross any line in writing about Woods's personal life. He mentioned that he left out many personal details about Woods. Haney wouldn't answer questions about how much he was paid to write the book.

Here are some highlights from Carton and Haney's exchanges, which grow increasingly heated and end with Haney hanging up after 23 minutes.

CARTON: You talk about his wife in the book.

HANEY: I talk about his wife only in areas where it pertains to his golf. The first time I talk about his wife is when she asked Tiger, "What are we going to do to celebrate?" And Tiger said, "We don't celebrate victories like this because..."

CARTON: Hank, you talked about the icy stares between the two of them after the accident when you saw him on the range outside of his house. What's that got to do with golf?

HANEY: Because Tiger was preparing for his first tournament back, which was the Masters. I was there preparing with him.

CARTON: Right.

HANEY: It was pertinent to his mindset at the time. When you're a golfer, obviously, it's a very mental game, and I thought that was pertinent to his...

CARTON: Let me ask you this:  Do you not...

HANEY: His preparation. So when I'm saying something like that in the book, one little comment about an icy stare, I don't think that's getting terribly personal.

CARTON: But it goes beyond golf. It goes beyond what happens inside the ropes.

HANEY: People have different opinions and I'm very aware that's going to be the case, but I'm not the first coach who's ever written a book...

CARTON: But it doesn't matter. Don't you think it's a violation?

HANEY: I don't feel like it was.

CARTON: You don't see that Tiger Woods allowed you into his world, obviously paid you I assume a decent amount of money to be his coach. Without Tiger Woods, you're not getting TV shows, you're not writing books. And you don't view it as a basic violation of the man's trust?

HANEY: Listen, I view it as my memories too. These weren't just his memories. He didn't have an exclusive on those memories. I wanted to share my observations, my thoughts, about his greatness, the complexities that make him up as a golfer, as a person. If I had all positive things in the book, it wouldn't have been an honest book. I wanted to write an honest book about working with Tiger Woods and the observations I made about his greatness and what it was like to coach him. And I realize people are going to have different opinions, but I'm not the first coach who's ever written a book. Phil Jackson wrote a book...

CARTON: It doesn't make it right though.

Then Carton says the book is egotistical.

CARTON: You come across a couple times in the book, in my opinion, almost like you want to be a martyr. "I did so much for Tiger. I was there for Tiger. I wanted to quit so many times but I didn't for Tiger." And the other thing you do, which is fascinating to me and shows me insight into you having never met you, is that you spend a chapter in the book when it's so important to you to compare Tiger Woods' win-loss percentage with you as his coach versus Butch Harmon as his coach. Which is such an egotistical play, I'm trying to figure that one out for myself.

HANEY: Well, like you said, you've never met me.

Later, Carton asks Haney how he would feel if a student wrote a "warts and all" book about him.

CARTON: Would you feel violated if someone did it to you?

HANEY: Would I feel violated if someone did it to me? I didn't do that. I kept everything in the book that was personal.

CARTON: It's a simple question: would you feel violated if someone did it to you?

HANEY: There are so many things I left out of this book that would have been going way beyond the line that I...

CARTON: Well, that's a cheap threat right there, c'mon.

HANEY: I felt like I did not cross the line.

CARTON: Why won't you answer my question then? We're men. I asked you a simple question

HANEY: I felt like I did not... No, I wouldn't. I feel like I did not cross the line because the book has to do with golf.

CARTON: So if a guy talked about your former wife and talked about the way you talked about it and a relationship with her and the kids and everything else, you wouldn't feel violated by that?

HANEY: I talked about that Tiger was a good father.

CARTON: You talk about their relationship.

HANEY: I did not.

CARTON: You talk about when they first got married things were great to the point where when Elin decides there's no TV at dinnertime it was a very icy, cold relationship, but no talking. You told secrets about a family man's life.

HANEY: That's a secret?

CARTON: Sure. I never knew that you couldn't watch TV in the Tiger Woods house. Nor do I give a damn. What's that got to do with golf?

HANEY: It pertained to his mental state

CARTON: So the fact that the Woods can't watch TV at dinnertime. So in other words, Tiger Woods going along with his wife -- and listen, we have the same policy but no one gives a damn -- the fact that they can't watch TV at dinnertime has what to do with winning the Masters?

HANEY: (silence)

CARTON: Nothing. It's a salacious book to make money.

HANEY: No, it's not a salacious book.

CARTON: What was your advance? How much?

HANEY: Guys, we're going to have to agree to disagree.

CARTON: How much money were you paid to write the book?

HANEY: That's totally irrelevant.

Then Carton's attacks on Haney get even more personal.

CARTON: Let's agree on one thing: That even now, how many years later since you've no longer been Tiger Woods' coach, you are still milking off the teat that is the Tiger Woods cow.

HANEY: That is not correct.

CARTON: No?

HANEY: But you just go ahead and have whatever opinion you want to have, OK? I wrote a book on my coaching Tiger Woods that detailed his greatness and the events that I partook in and you have your opinion and that's OK, but I think when people read the book, they will have a different opinion. The majority have. That's a fact. But you are entitled to your opinion.

CARTON: What do you think the general opinion is? Overall, outside of the guys who will kiss your ass like the guys who will kiss my ass and Boomer's ass and Tiger's ass, what do you think overall the perception of your book is, Hank?

HANEY: It's perception into the greatness that is Tiger Woods. That's the feedback that I am hearing

CARTON: Am I the first guy to give you a hard time about breaking that trust?

HANEY: You're definitely the most vocal and you're the only one who yelled and screamed and called me a coward.

And we're only at the 17-minute mark. Amazingly, Haney stays on for a full 23 minutes, signing off while Carton called him "scum of the earth."

CARTON: You probably got half a million up front to write the book and you probably pitched it as a tell-all book about the one guy who knew Tiger almost better than anybody, and it's guys like you, the scum of the earth, that abrogate a relationship and say things about men that only they know, which is so patently offensive to the trust that public figures on the level of Tiger Woods have to be careful about. It's disgusting.

I hope that every golfer in America is fearful of allowing you to be their swing coach because here's the reality of Hank Haney: Hank Haney's going to get to know you, and like a snake in the grass if he can make money off you one day in the future, he's going to do it. And I can't stand guys like you.

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Only thing we can’t figure out is how Rory McIlroy landed in the “B” flight.

Attention on McIlroy leaves fellow Horizon client feeling left out 
In the months since Rory McIlroy jumped ship from Chubby Chandler’s high-profile management firm, ISM, to join under-the-radar Horizon Sports, Horizon’s frontman, Conor Ridge, has kept himself and his firm out of the spotlight. (It's hard to envision talk of a “Conor Slam” should Horizon’s clients threaten to sweep the majors in 2012.)

Still, managing arguably the game’s most marketable player is no small task, especially when you have other clients who require your attention. That’s a lesson Horizon learned this week when Michael Hoey—the best Northern Irish golfer you've never heard of—severed ties with the Dublin-based agency. Hoey, a four-time European Tour winner ranked 74th in the world, was feeling neglected, according to the Evening Herald:

Hoey expressed his disappointment in feeling overlooked in business initiatives and none more so with McIlroy on the books.

“I was in a business relationship with Horizon but I feel I was not benefitting from any business in the arrangement as much as I could have been,” said Hoey.

Hoey added:  

"I have been thinking about if for some time and it’s not as though I’m dropping Conor without any notice.

“But with Rory now on board and playing more in the States their management has changed and altered.”

LPGA pro discusses her depression
The life of a professional golfer isn’t all fun and games. Just ask Australian LPGA pro Lindsey Wright, who recently revealed that she has been battling depression and anxiety, likely triggered by her itinerant life as a Tour pro. Golfweek’s Beth Ann Baldry has the details:

Two years ago at the Ricoh Women’s British Open, she burst into tears on the putting green at Royal Birkdale. She was miserable.

Wright, 32, has won more than $2 million on the LPGA. She came to the U.S. at age 20 to play golf at Pepperdine and work her way onto the tour. In 2009, she finished 18th on the money list, with a pair of top-4 finishes in the majors. America has been good to her.

But it has also been a grind. The road can be lonely. The LPGA is a business, and players either keep to themselves or keep their circles small. If anyone noticed that Wright had changed over the years out here, no one said anything. She didn’t cope well with her 30th birthday, which happens to be on New Year’s Eve.

Wright tried cognitive behavior therapy (talk it out). When that didn’t do enough, her doctor suggested she go on medication for anxiety and depression.

…In an article Wright helped write for The Sydney Morning Herald about the victory, she revealed her inner demons. Wright said she got tired of making up reasons for her poor play. She wanted people to know the truth.

“My golf is fine,” she said. “My brain wasn’t. My mental health was just crap.”

The good news: things are looking up. Wright won the ISPS Handa NZ Women’s Open in February, her first victory in eight years, and she says she’s feeling better mentally. On Thursday, she shot five under in the first round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, leaving her just a shot off the lead. 

As reported by Bloomberg News, Augusta National could be on the verge of admitting its first female member. IBM, which is one of the Masters' three principal sponsors along with Exxon Mobil and AT&T, hired Virginia "Ginni" Rometty as its new CEO -- and that position traditionally merits a membership to Augusta. The green jackets could be debating what to do as you're reading this...but is it possible Rometty is already in the club? USA Today's Christine Brennan speculates that this may the case.

It's possible that the question actually might be moot. It is within the realm of possibility, remote as it might seem, that she's already a member and we simply don't know it yet.

We do know this. Augusta National certainly won't tell us. It's the club's policy to not discuss its membership, a policy busted to bits during the great Hootie Johnson-Martha Burk dust-up of 2002-03, but the club is adhering to it this week, spokesman Steve Ethun said in an e-mail Wednesday.

Rometty did not return an e-mail seeking comment on this topic. Full disclosure: I have known her since we were undergraduates at Northwestern University, and we both now serve on the 73-member board of trustees of our alma mater. She and I have never discussed golf or Augusta National.

Monty's Advice for Rory
One of the many intriguing moments next week at Augusta will be Rory McIlroy's return to the 10th tee, which is the site of the shot that defined his final-round collapse in 2011, a gruesome snap-hook that settled near a row of white cabins, an area of the course that has rarely, if ever, been shown on TV. Colin Montgomerie, who incidentally has never won a major, offered some advice for McIlroy on how to exorcise the demons from that shot, from the UK's Telegraph.

“I hope that he hits as many shots off that tee in practice as possible and gets it out of the way,” the Scot said of McIlroy, who has headed to Augusta this week for his first look at the course set-up. “That’s the shot everybody will be focusing on come Thursday, and let’s hope he gets rid of that. It was just a poor shot at the wrong time. He’s a much more mature player than he was a year ago.”

Stray Shots

- Guessing Tiger would rather discuss Hank Haney's book all day long than face one question about a new "film" starring a few of his former mistresses.

- ESPN's Mick Elliot is the latest to explore Michelle Wie's long, strange trip.

Tweet of the Day

Done, finished, retired RT @TheBSweet: @HankDHaney You said you wouldn't teach another tour pro again. Even Rory?

— Hank Haney (@HankDHaney) March 29, 2012

In the nearly 80 years since Augusta National opened for business, the golf course and the Masters tournament, which began in the second year of the club's existence, have undergone many changes. But throughout its storied history one thing has remained the same at Augusta National: no woman has ever been admitted as a member.

Most golf fans probably remember the hubbub in 2002 when Martha Burk, who was at the time the chairperson of the National Council of Women's Organizations, claimed that excluding women was sexist and challenged the club and its chairman, Hootie Johnson, to change the policy.

Though the Masters tournament was telecast with no commercials in '03 and '04 due to the controversy, things eventually went back to normal at Augusta National, and to this day there has never been a female member of the club. But will that soon change?

As Bloomberg News reported today, the club faces a dicey situation because IBM, one of the tournament's three main sponsors, now has a female CEO. 

Will International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)’s Ginni Rometty be able to wear a green jacket at the Masters Tournament?

As Augusta National Golf Club prepares to host the competition next week, it faces a quandary: The club hasn’t admitted a woman as a member since its founding eight decades ago, yet it has historically invited the chief executive officer of IBM, one of three Masters sponsors. Since the company named Rometty to the post this year, Augusta will have to break tradition either way.

Rometty plays golf only occasionally, according to Bloomberg, and prefers to scuba dive. Spokespeople for both the Masters and IBM refused to comment on the situation.

News and Notes

The Big Miss A Big Hit: Hank Haney's tome, "The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods," has reached No. 9 on Amazon's best seller list. Regardless of whether Haney broke the player-coach code of honor, it's clear that people want to know about his time with Woods. The book is trending upward, but will it be able to challenge the "Fifty Shades" and "Hunger Games" series?  

LPGA on Golf Channel: The LPGA and Golf Channel just agreed to a three-year extension of the network's exclusive rights to the Kraft Nabisco Championship (remember Dinah Shore?), the season's first major. LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan said: "Based on the strong promotional advertising, the incredible tournament coverage and storytelling, and the record-high viewership results that occurred in 2011, we're excited to partner with Golf Channel and continue showcasing the LPGA's first major." 

DL III to miss Masters: Davis Love III, who finished runner-up at the Masters in '95 and '99, will not be present at the proceedings next week. Love, who qualified for the tournament last year after failing to do so for the previous three, needed a big performance at this week's Shell Houston Open in order to earn another chance at a green jacket. Unfortunately for the former PGA Championship winner, he cracked a rib last week at Bay Hill and has withdrawn from the Houston event. Better luck next year, Davis. 

Tweet of the Week

PGA Tour often groups players for TV, fan interest, etc. Herron-Couch-Stadler grouped in Houston. Presumably for convenience of paramedics.

— Steve Elling (@EllingYelling) March 28, 2012

Attention 1 percenters.

The website PebbleBeachHomeSiteAuction.com is offering a 1.1 acre home site along Pebble Beach Golf Links for auction. With views of the 11th and 12th greens, as well as Carmel Bay and the Pacific Ocean, the site is one of only 34 properties that front the famous Northern California golf course. The price? Bidding starts at $7,950,000.

The purchase of 3418 17-Mile Drive presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a one-of-a-kind, custom home in one of the world’s most elite resort locations. Previously listed at US$12,000,000, the property is being offered at or above US$7,950,000.

This exceptional 1.1 acre home site is one of only 34 properties that directly front the Pebble Beach Golf Links. With 185 feet of golf course frontage, this home site is coming to the market for the second time in 93 years and is the only vacant, ready-to-build parcel on the golf course. Located on scenic 17-Mile Drive, this property has prized views of the 11th and 12th greens, as well as breathtaking views of Carmel Bay, Point Lobos, Carmel Point, and the Pacific Ocean.

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Each week, 15 staffers from SI Golf+, Golf Magazine and GOLF.com vote for their top 10, awarding 10 points to their first choice and proceeding in descending order to the 10th player, who gets one point. The points are then added and the ranking calculated. This ranking aims to be an of-the-moment measure of who’s playing the best right now. Tell us your top 10 in the comments field below.

RANK (TOTAL VOTES, FIRST PLACE VOTES, LAST WEEK'S RANK)

1.  Rory McIlroy (148, 13, 1)   - Last three finishes: 3, WGC-Cadillac Championship; 1, Honda Classic; 2, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 
- Official World Golf Ranking: 2

2. Luke Donald (126, 1, 2) - Last three finishes: 1, Transitions Championship; T6, WGC-Cadillac Championship; T33, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 1

3. Tiger Woods (115, 1, NR) - Last three finishes: 1, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; WD, WGC-Cadillac Championship; T2, Honda Classic
-Official World Golf Ranking: 6

4. Lee Westwood (82, 0, 3) - Last three finishes: T29, WGC-Cadillac Championship; 4, Honda Classic; 4, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 
- Official World Golf Ranking: 3

5. Phil Mickelson (74, 0, 5) - Last three finishes: T24, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; T43, WGC-Cadillac Championship; T2, Northern Trust Open 
- Official World Golf Ranking: 15

6. Keegan Bradley (59, 0, 6) - Last three finishes: T8, WGC-Cadillac Championship; T12, Honda Classic; T17, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 
- Official World Golf Ranking: 20

7. Justin Rose (58, 0, 4) - Last three finishes: T15, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; T29, Transitions Championship; 1, WGC-Cadillac Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 8

8. Hunter Mahan (49, 0, 7) - Last three finishes: T42, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; T24, WGC-Cadillac Championship; 1, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 14

9. Bubba Watson (25, 0, 10) - Last three finishes: T4 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; 2, WGC-Cadillac Championship, T17, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 18

10. Bill Haas (24, 0, 8) - Last three finishes: TT29, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; 29, WGC-Cadillac Championship; T33, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
- Official World Golf Ranking: 16

Others receiving votes:
Kyle Stanley (10)
Graeme McDowell (8)
Charl Schwartzel (8)
Matt Kuchar (7)
Webb Simpson (6)
Steve Stricker (6)
Mark Wilson (5)
Martin Kaymer (4)
Johnson Wagner (4)
Ernie Els (2)
Brandt Snedeker (2)
Fred Couples (1)
Jim Fuyrk (1)
Bo Van Pelt (1)

Hank Haney defended his new Tiger Woods book "The Big Miss" from criticism that Haney had broken the player-teacher code, a charge made by Rick Smith, Phil Mickelson's former teacher.

Speaking to CBS This Morning on Tuesday (the book's release date), Haney said he didn't violate any professional code or understanding when writing about Woods's personal moments.

"The thing about this so called unwritten code. I mean, there is no code, it's not a doctor patient relationship," Haney said Tuesday on "CBS This Morning." "I understand people have that idea and that feeling, and I knew that when I wrote the book. I was very comfortable with that."

Haney added, "The bottom line really was, I felt like these are my memories as well as Tiger's. I didn't think he had an exclusive or a patent on those memories. I'm asked about him all the time, I'm asked about my job and how I worked with Tiger. When you're around greatness, when you observe it, and you want to talk about it. I'm always asked about it, I thought, they're my memories too and I want to share them."

Tiger's win boosts Bay Hill ratings by 129%

Michael Hielstand of USA Today looks at the weekend television sports ratings and concludes that Tiger Woods still puts on a pretty good show.

Woods' win Sunday, his first PGA Tour win in 30 months, propelled NBC's Bay Hill coverage to a 4.8 overnight rating, which translates into 4.8% of households in the 56 urban markets measured for overnights. That's up 129% over last year -- and is nearly identical to the 4.9 overnight Woods drew for his dramatic win at the event in 2009. So much for the idea that Woods' off-course publicity would turn off viewer interest.

CBS, which airs lots of golf including The Masters, has to be thrilled about Woods becoming a big TV draw again. But probably not thrilled today. In CBS' early NCAA game, Kentucky blowing out Baylor drew a 5.3 overnight -- down 29% from a VCU-Kansas game last year.

Victory leap at Dinah Shore made safer, less gross

Ever since Amy Alcott jumped into the lake off the 18th green when she won the then-Kraft Dinah Shore at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, Calif., the winner's victory leap into the pond has been an enduring tradition. However, last year Stacy Lewis' mom was injured jumping into the lake. This year, Kraft Nabisco Championship organizers have made the leap safer. Larry Bohannan of The Desert Sun has the details:

“It’s not really in response to (the injury),” said Gabe Codding, tournament director of the Kraft Nabisco. “It’s something that we looked at. Anything that we had to do, it felt like the appropriate thing to do, to have a jump zone and have an area where a mishap couldn’t happen again. It was important for us to address that issue.”

Poppie’s Pond is a cemented, fresh-water area cut off from the rest of the lake around the 18th green at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club. It was initially built to end concerns about players jumping into the murky brown water of the actually lake inhabited by fish, ducks, coots and algae. Codding said the changes in Poppie’s Pond make the area safer for winners and whoever joins the winner in the pond.

Australian snake swallows two golf balls

Just take a drop, man.

An Australian carpet python had to have two golf balls surgically removed after he mistook them for chicken eggs. The Sydney Morning Herald has the story:

It wasn't entirely his fault; the chickens' owners had placed the balls there so not to overly bother their chickens when removing eggs.

But while the two-year-old 1.5 metre snake did manage to snaffle two eggs for his trouble, he also swallowed himself a whole lot of trouble.

And, just as another carpet snake, Augusta, discovered in 2008, golf balls are a little hard on the Morelia spilota's digestion.

When he slithered back a week later, either looking for another easy meal or somewhere warm to curl up and digest his loot, the property owners scooped him up and rushed him to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary hospital for some emergency surgery.  

Tweet of the Day

There once was a girl named Michelle who played golf extremely well the critics complained pointed fingers of blame well they can just go to

— David Feherty (@Fehertwit) March 27, 2012

Tiger Mania
Tiger Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, ending his 30-month drought with a five-stroke victory. Friends, fans and critics give him a shout-out.

Heading home now and I can't stop smiling. Thanks to Otown fans and everyone watching for all the love. Get well soon, Arnie.

— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) March 26, 2012

Tiger Woods is back!! What a thrilling victory in his 72nd win on the PGA Tour. Great for golf. Congratulations.

— Gary Player (@garyplayer) March 26, 2012

Some guy we vaguely remember won for the first time in awhile. No big whoop. RT @geoffogilvy: What happened at the golf yesterday?

— Steve Elling (@EllingYelling) March 26, 2012

You gotta admire #TigerWoods for winning at Bay Hill just to help promote Hank Haney's book "The Big Miss." Who says Tiger's selfish?

— Alistair Tait (@GolfweekTait) March 26, 2012

LPGA Major Opener
This week the LPGA stages its first major of the season with the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Retweet if you're ready for the LPGA's first major of the season - the Kraft Nabisco Championship!@KNCGolf #KNC12

— LPGA (@lpga) March 26, 2012

It’s time for golf’s first major. Follow @KNCGolf for live updates, photos, and video. #KNCGolf is official hashtag of the Tournament.

— Paula Creamer (@ThePCreamer) March 26, 2012

Tseng on a roll
Yani Tseng won her 15th LPGA title at The Kia Classic. Soon we'll see if she can make it three in a row and win major No. 6 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship this week.

Yani Tseng is amazing - she is dominating like Tiger did.Well done to Fred Couples I hope he plays like that at The Masters.

— Gary Player (@garyplayer) March 26, 2012

Red-hot Yani Tseng wins Kia Classic by six strokes es.pn/GRge1z

— ESPN_Golf (@ESPN_Golf) March 25, 2012

Tiger/Yani win in same wk. 23 yr old Yani faster than Tiger to 15 career wins by 8 months. This wk Yani goes for 6th major #Kraft

— Kelly Tilghman (@KellyTilghmanGC) March 26, 2012

Yani Tseng, who has won 3 of the 5 LPGA events played, leads the money list by $423,011. Rory leads US list by $406,610.

— Ryan Ballengee (@RyanBallengeeGC) March 26, 2012

Some golfers take the office to the golf course. In this video, Phil Mickelson's caddie, Jim "Bones" Mackay, takes his job to the office.

Luke Donald isn’t exactly the longest player off the tee—he’s not even the 177th longest player off the tee—but he is the No. 1 player in the world, as he kindly reminds us with the help of Mizuno, YouTube and gospel singers. 

Ben Crane squeaks into Masters field

Speaking of YouTube, Ben Crane and his helmet are headed to Augusta. As Ryan Ballengee reports, Crane began the week as No. 48 in the Official World Golf Ranking, leaving little wiggle room to remain inside the top 50. After missing the cut, things looked grim for Crane; however, he only dipped down one place to 49th, keeping his hopes for a green jacket alive. Sportsbook.com doesn’t exactly like the American’s odds, though (125 to 1 odds). Always the good sport (and social-media savant), Crane took to Twitter to let us know that, at the very least, there is a chance, quoting "Dumb and Dumber" along the way. 

Wow what a day sitting at 48th world ranking and top 50 get into Masters after this wk. I dropped to 49 and got in & now tied for the lead!!

— Ben Crane (@bencranegolf) March 26, 2012

the 2012 Masters RT @tpaulding: tied for the lead... In what?

— Ben Crane (@bencranegolf) March 26, 2012

Wht r chances of green jacket like u & a playr like me getn together?1in10? more like 1in a million.So u r sayin there's a chance I hear ya!

— Ben Crane (@bencranegolf) March 26, 2012

Arnold Palmer might play in charity event this December

As reported earlier, the PNC Father/Son Challenge is set to return after a brief hiatus. Arnold Palmer will serve as the event’s ambassador, and the event will benefit the Anrold Palmer Hospital for Children and the Winner Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Orlando, but he may also be competing, according to Jason Sobel: 

"Well, my plans are right now, I'm thinking about it," he [Palmer] said with a wink. "I have two grandsons that are eligible."

Following that coy remark, though, Palmer was hospitalized with high blood pressure. Reports indicate that he will be fine, but it is unclear if it will affect his playing status. If the tweets from one of Arnie’s grandsons, up-and-comer Sam Saunders, are any indication, there is a good chance we see the King teeing it up come December.

Tweet of the Day

A win for Tiger will bring his on-course career earnings to $109,596,678. Thru today, Gilbert Arenas has made $112,178,986.

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) March 25, 2012