Thank You, Tom Kite

And thanks for nothing, Tim Finchem.

I'm a little late to this show today, but no, I wasn't at the Booz-Allen. I've been to enough funerals lately.

Leonard Shapiro in the Washington Post:

Tom Kite won the first Kemper Open when it moved from Congressional to TPC Avenel in 1987, and Kite is in the field again for the final Booz Allen Classic starting this morning at the same venue. He said yesterday he was outraged that Washington may lose its annual place on the PGA Tour schedule.

"I think it would go way beyond surprised. I think it would be shocked," he said of his initial reaction when he heard the Washington event was in jeopardy. "I think it's a travesty. How can you not have a tournament in the nation's capital, especially a tournament that has been good throughout the years?"

Shapiro relates PGA chief Finchem's implausible non-explanations about the imminent demise of this championship, though with another extended deadline they're still looking for sponsors of a contest after the end of the real PGA season, in the middle of the Washington Redskin's schedule, to be televised on The Golf Channel.

Who wouldn't want to sponsor that?