'Bout Time for Olympic Golf

Golf will return as an Olympic sport in 2016, which means the robber barons that head the International Olympic Committee are capable of doing something right when they aren't playing now-you-see-it, now-you-don't with sitting presidents, turning a blind eye to censorship, and holding the Game's hostage for television revenue that would make Donald Trump blush.

Why it has taken so long to re-admit golf as an Olympic sport is beyond me. After all, the game was born in Scotland, grew up in the U.S., and now is a handsome, multilingual, worldwide ambassador growing itself all over the world.

Golf was last an official Olympic event in 1904, but was dropped because at the time only about 871 people played the game on the six or so courses that were available worldwide. It just didn't seem right to give a sport of so few an enormous stage for so many.

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Of Alligators and Gold Medals

There's always a few things you need to keep an eye out for on the golf course when it comes to personal safety.

The occassional golfer who does not know you are supposed to yell "FORE" when a ball is getting too close to another golfer, thus exposing you to an unexpected golf ball off the noggin. The occasional snake in the rough when you go searching for your wayward shot, especially in Texas and yes I speak from personal experience.

The other day I finished putting at my course's 13th hole, retrieved my ball and turned around to see an adult kit fox sitting on the green about 20 feet away. We spent about 30 seconds staring at each other before he decided to trot off, but it was a long 30 seconds as I was trying to remember if kit foxes liked to munch on humans or not.

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Obama No Match for This Game

Well, that'll teach our sports-minded president to get involved with a political mob like the International Olympic Committee.

And he thought Chicago politics were rough and tumble ...

Whether President Obama should have involved himself so directly to bring the Olympic Games to Chicago in 2016, given the other pressing things he has on his plate these days, is fair game for the political pundits -- but this thing was never going to end well.

It seems to me that he, and the dynamic duo of wife, Michelle, and Talk Show Goddess, Oprah, had everything to lose and nothing to win when they made the long trip to Copenhagen to genuflect in front of an institution that has shown itself over the years to run a cottage industry specializing in corruption, warped judgment, and greed.

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