He named names!

2001 British Open champion David Duval took to Twitter on Friday after Tianling Guan was penalized one stroke for slow play during the second round of the Masters. Duval said it was unfortunate that Guan received the penalty because there are many other slow-playing professional golfers, including Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk.

Guan's penalty might have caused the 14-year-old from China to miss the cut. He shot 73 on Thursday and 75 on Friday, leaving him at 4-over for the tournament. The top 50 and all players within 10 strokes of the lead play the weekend.

The only way to deal with slow play is simple. Give the rules officials the ability to time players without warning them.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Most slow players know how to beat the system. They fall behind get timed so they speed up. Back in position and they slow back down.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

We all know who they slow players are. Maybe the commentators should be calling them slow instead of deliberate.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

I did during my TV work last year and I will again.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Who's the slowest? Hard to say.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Crane, Simpson, Na are pretty slow.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Tiger isn't the fastest. Nor is Furyk for the big names.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Harrington is pretty bad.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Many more than can be named. It doesn't matter though until the officials have the right power.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

I'm probably middle of the road. Had my own issue with slow play when I turned pro. Took time dealing with it but worked thru it.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Joe Ogilvie is the fastest I think.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

It's a shame it's coming to light again involving the kid. I do wish it had happened to one if the known slower players.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Funny that some are mad about saying the names of slow players. Everybody in golf knows who the slow players are.

— David Duval (@david59duval) April 12, 2013

Once ranked No. 1 in the world, Duval, 41, is not in the field at the Masters this week; he's missed the cut in all four of his PGA Tour starts this season.

Ticket brokers on Washington Road in Augusta in 2010 (Getty Images).

We were shocked to read that Masters practice round tickets were selling for $1,000, but that's nothing compared to the price of a four-day badge, which are selling for more than $13,000, according to Bloomberg's Eben Novy-Williams.

Masters Tournament ticket prices are up 276 percent on the secondary market as Tiger Woods enters the tournament as the world’s top-rated golfer for the first time since 2010.

Four-day badges for the golf season’s first major tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia are listed for an average of $13,820 on the secondary market, according to ticket aggregator TiqIQ, up from $3,675 last year and more than double the average each of the past three Masters.

The cheapest available four-day badge, whose face value is $250, is listed at $12,200, according to the website.

The face value of a four-day pass to the Masters is just $200, easily the best bargain in professional sports. The catch is that the tickets aren’t available to the general public. The list of patrons who regularly receive applications for Series Badges, which grant Thursday-Sunday admittance, has been closed since 1971, according to tournament officials. A waiting list was then established, closed in 1978, re-opened briefly in 2000, and has now been exhausted. In 2011, Augusta National made a limited number of practice-round tickets available to the public via lottery.

In advance of the proposed ban on belly putters, Ernie Els is playing with a short putter at the Chiangmai Golf Classic in Thailand this week.

But according to SkySports, the Big Easy will be back to using an anchored putter when the Masters kicks off a week from Monday. 

"Even if I won here this week, I will use the belly putter at the Masters simply because the greens are so quick over there. But after the Masters, I'll try to use the short putter more regularly."

Els, currently No. 24 in the world rankings, won the 2012 British Open after switching to a longer putter. But he missed the Masters last year after 18 straight appearances at Augusta.  

In November, the USGA and R&A announced a proposal to outlaw the method of hooking clubs to the body. The European PGA has since voiced support for the ban, which would go into effect in 2016, while the PGA Tour and PGA of America oppose it. Arnold Palmer said last week that he supports the prohibition, saying "we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf."  

Photo: Els using the short putter at the Qatar Masters in January (Getty Images).

Adam Scott joined Ernie Els for a practice round at the course last Tuesday and pronounced the course "perfect" during a press conference at last week's Tampa Bay Championship.

"I thought it was in the best shape I've ever seen it this early in the year," Scott said. "They must have had some nice warm days and cool nights, and a lot of grass seems to be growing. Sometimes it can be a little thin early on, but it looks great. It's Augusta. It's pretty much perfect."

When asked if his internal clock for winning a major is becoming more of a factor as he prepares for the Masters, Scott said he only recently feels like he is coming into his own.

"I think it's the other way for me," Scott said. "I think it was a long time, I didn't really look like I was a major contender, and now I feel like I am. So I feel like now's my time, it's up to me to make it happen.  Everyone's path to that success is different. I mean, Mickelson knocked on the door for years and years and then the floodgates opened for him. I've gotten my game to a point where I feel like I'm right there. Hopefully I can get the first one and then we'll see. Everyone's path to getting there is different. So I'm just trying to do what I believe is best and hopefully the first one comes soon and more to follow."

Scott's playing partner during his practice round at Augusta was also the beneficiary of Scott's collapse in last year's British Open. Els claimed his fourth major after Scott shot a 75 on Sunday after leading or within one stroke of the lead for the previous three rounds. But the two professionals haven't let that event affect their friendship.

"I think I was happy overall, very happy for Ernie," Scott said. "I think he's an incredible talent and he's one of the best players I've of seen on a golf course. I've played so much golf with him and seen him do such incredible things.  I think he could have won ten majors. So paid his dues, and whether he won it or I helped him win it a little bit; it doesn't matter, he won it.  Probably eased the pain a little bit that he was a closer friend of minute here, and I could feel some happiness for him."

Scott's best finish at Augusta was a second-place showing in 2011 after posting a final-round 67 on a wild Sunday that saw eight different players claim a share of the lead. The first round of the 2013 Masters is April 11.

Photo: Adam Scott at the 2012 Masters (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Tiger Woods's ex-coach Hank Haney thinks Woods is preforming even better in 2013 than he did in 2012, when he won three times, according to John Huggan of the Scotsman.com

“Tiger is playing much better this season,” Haney said. “His distance control with the wedges has improved tremendously since last year, a fact evidenced by the fact that he made a lot of birdies from inside 100 yards.”

One of the main reasons has been his performance off the tee. Even though Woods has hit only 56.6 percent of fairways this year, 127th on the Tour, Haney believes that his ability to control the errant drives has been an improvement from the past three seasons.

“Because of the distance so many of the professionals now hit the ball, a lot of them are benefiting from not having to hit many drivers,” Haney said. “Tiger is definitely one of those players. When I taught him, he missed about 85 percent of his fairways to the right, even though he would sometimes say he had a ‘two-way’ miss going. And over the last three years that has actually been true; his misses with the driver have been almost 50-50 left and right. Last week, however, was different. Last week Tiger largely eliminated the left-side miss. For any player, eliminating half the golf course is a great confidence boost.”

Woods received another confidence boost before the tournament at Doral in the form of a putting tip from Steve Stricker on his way to the lowest four-round putting total of his career. Haney referenced Tiger's former caddie, Steve Williams, who would say if Woods was under 120 putts in a tournament, then he would win. Woods manged to best that mark by 20 with only 100 total putts at Doral.

"Victory was almost assured," Haney said.

Woods is in search of his first major win since 2008 and is a 4-to-1 favorite at this year's Masters. Haney thinks his former pupil is finally close to the level that got him his 14 majors in the first place.

“It’s all about the majors for Tiger,” Haney said. “For any player, victory in any of the four means matching a good ball-striking week with a good putting week. In the past, the ball-striking part was a given for Tiger. And it looks like he is approaching that level again.”

Photo: Woods and Haney at the 2009 WGC Championship Accenture Match Play (Credit: Robert Beck)

In February, Dr. Stephen Pyles, a golf memorabilia collector in Florida, tried to sell Art Wall Jr's green jacket believed to be presented to him after winning the 1959 Masters.

The sale, which was supposed to take place through Heritage Auctions in Dallas, was put under a 14-day restraining order in February after a lawsuit was filed by Augusta National Golf Club and ended with a hearing on Monday.

The club filed a lawsuit claiming each green jacket given to Masters winners or club members are property of Augusta National - not to mention the club also belives the jacket in question to be stolen.

In a confusing story with the two sides telling two vastly different tales, Augusta National claimed all green jackets belong in its clubhouse after the winners can take the jacket away from the course for one year.

"Thereafter, it must be stored on ANI (Augusta National Inc.) premises for use only on the grounds and during the annual tournament,” the lawsuit claimed according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. “Thus, a champion’s Green Jacket is owned by ANI, with a champion having possessory rights when on the premises of ANI.”

Pyles disagrees.

“I have owned six, maybe seven, green jackets," Pyles told the AJC. "I can go on the Internet right now and buy you a member’s green jacket.”

Pyles purchased Wall Jr's jacket at a 2012 auction for $62,000 and was trying to flip the jacket for "upwards of $90,000."

Augusta National also claims the jacket is stolen. After an inventory in 2010 placed the jacket on the club's premises, the lawsuit states it went missing after four jackets were stolen by former employees.

This time it's Pyles's lawyer who doesn't agree.

Mark Senter, the attorney for Heritage Auctions and Pyles, said there has been no police report to back up the claim of the theft. He refers to other newspaper stories in which Wall’s son, Greg, said his father, who died in 2001, told his family that the coat had simply disappeared and offered no other details.

Ryan Carey, owner of GreenJacketAuctions.com, said the idea that each green jacket is kept under strict security within the gates of Augusta National is “a myth that has been perpetuated for many years.”

“There are (relatively) plenty of green jackets that are out there, both members’ and champions’ jackets,” he said. “I’m not sure if Augusta National really realizes that, but I guess for the first time it is going to try to assert that it is the rightful owner of them.”

Wall Jr. earned the green jacket in question in '59 after shooting a 66 with five birdies in the final six holes to pass Arnold Palmer and Cary Middlecoff for victory.

(Photo: Kohjiro Kinno / SI)

As Bubba Watson's Master-ful Mystery Tour rolls into its 10th month, he's finally had time to reflect on his Augusta triumph. He's had time to go on Letterman, to fall into a post-major slump and play his way out of it. He's had time to watch the Sunday broadcast of his winning round three times on DVR.

And yet he still hasn't made up his mind on the menu for the Champions Dinner.

"We'll wait to see that day what I have," Watson said in a Wednesday teleconference. "I think as Masters champion I should be allowed to just wait to tell everybody."

The culinary suspense surely has certain green-jacketed gourmets on pins, but Bubba was specific about one thing he won't do when he gets to Augusta: revisit the site of that whipsawed gap wedge that won him the tournament a year ago:

No, I want that to live. That might be my only legacy of winning the Masters, so I want that shot to live, and I want it to grow, and hopefully 20 years from now it's even tougher and there was bigger trees and was a tougher situation. So I don't have any reason to go over there. Hopefully I hit the fairway from now on so I don't need to practice that shot anymore.

There may be another reason he won't try to relive the shot: Watson wasn't as impressed with it as everyone else who saw it live or on YouTube since. In fact, it didn't even medal:

The hardest shot I've ever pulled off? I've pulled off a couple more that week early in the week. The one on 17 earlier in that day, what, three holes before that, was harder. One on 11 I think was harder. So that one just in that week that was like No. 4 on the list.

Still, among all those highlights, only one thing really stands out.

"That I won," Watson said. "I actually won it."

(Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP)

Lee Trevino has never been a huge fan of Augusta National, but that's never stopped him from talking about the course. In a Q and A with Kyle Porter on cbssports.com, Trevino says the lords of Augusta had no choice but to add serious length to the venerable track in recent years, lest it become obsolete.

How different is Augusta now than when you played it?

They'd be shooting in the 50s today, these guys, as far as they hit it, yeah, they'd be shooting in the 50s if they hadn't stretched Augusta out. They would have had to do something with Augusta to make it extremely hard.

What they would have done, they would have had to put the rough way up and made it really tight. And that isn't what Mr. Jones wanted. Mr. Jones didn't want rough up there because he wanted the best player to win. And sometimes when you have deep rough, the best player doesn't win because when you both hit it in the rough one can get lucky and one can get unlucky as far as the lie is concerned.

The voluble Trevino went on to praise the current form of world number two Tiger Woods, the 14-time major winner whose ever-changing swing has come under occasional criticism from the Merry Mex.

Who is the best ball-striker in the world right now?

I don't see how you can dispute Tiger's ball-striking right now. I thought the best ball-striker ever was Sam Snead. Day in and day out, no one could hit the ball like Sam Snead could hit it. He was a phenomenal athlete, and he could do just about anything he wanted to with a golf ball. He's overlooked in that department. Right now as far as ball-striking is concerned, I don't see how it gets any better than Tiger.

Tiger is a mechanic. A lot of guys are one-dimensional, and I think Tiger is way up on everybody because he can create different types of shots and that's what makes you a great player. You show up at the golf course one day and A-game isn't working, so you have to go to B or C. And that's what he can do.

Photo: Lee Trevino at the AT&T Championship at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio, Texas, in October 2010 (Getty Images).

EA Sports has created something for the golf geek in all of us. In the Master's Historic version of the company's new Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 game, you can play the Augusta National course as it was at the first Masters Tournament in 1934. Take a look at it in all its vignette-effect and sepia-toned glory:

The game will be released on March 26; normal version, $59.99, Master's Historic version, $69.99.

When the Masters, The R&A and The Asia Pacific Golf Confederation started the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in 2009, their goal was to develop golf in Asia. It seems the tournament is also doing its fair share to promote the junior game.

Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old from Guangzhou, China, shot one-under 71 on Sunday for a 15-under total to win the Asia-Pacific Am by a shot. The victory earned him a berth in next April's Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, where Guan will become the youngest player in the tournament's history. At 14 years, five months and 17 days, he will get there far ahead of the previous record-holder, Matteo Manassero, who won the British Amateur in 2009 and played the 2010 Masters as a 16-year-old.

"I'm really happy to become the youngest player at the Masters and looking forward to going there,"  Guan said. "I don't know what's going to happen there, but I know I just want to do well."

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Guan weighs 125 pounds and was the youngest player in the field at Amata Spring Country Club in Chonburi, Thailand, but that didn't stop him from making a clutch up-and-down par at the 18th to seal a one-shot victory over Pan Cheng-tsung of Chinese Taipei, Asia's No. 2 amateur.

Guan, who spends part of every year in California with relatives, was also the youngest winner of the China Amateur Open last November, and became the youngest player to compete on the European tour when he played this year's China Open. The win also gets him into final qualifying for next year's British Open.