Fred Couples News

Another in a long line of major tournament champions will be crowned at Duncan Meadows Golf Club next week.

Tiger Woods is 33 and already has more PGA Tour victories than Arnold Palmer. One of these days, he might have the kind of influence on players that the King can wield with a mere glint in his eye.

As the AT&T National wrapped up yesterday, golfers turned their thoughts to the future of the famed Blue Course at Congressional Country Club.

The course will close for two years to undergo a redesign that will make it U.S. Open-ready for 2011, and golfers wondered what the course would look like in two years. The USGA prefers its courses tough, and adding length to the Blue Course, which is currently 7,255 yards, would make it more appropriate for the Open.

'They're going to make it longer, which they probably need to do,' Fred Couples said. 'It's already tough enough, but the length will make it harder.'

The best place to see holiday fireworks -- besides the kind on display at Congressional Country Club -- has got to be Saturday night the 4th somewhere along the National Mall that stretches from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.

RUSHMORE Golf Cluba s Ben Stow took a day off school last week to shoot a two under par 69 at Ferndown and book his place at the final of The Open qualifing competition, which will be held on July 6 and 7 at three courses close to 2009 Open Venue Turnbury.

I don't know how many Michiganders will travel to the Toledo area this week to see Michelle Wie play in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.

Tournament host Tiger Woods will honor wounded warriors on the first tee box during a patriotic salute to U.S. military personnel and their families to officially open the 2009 AT&T National PGA Tour event, July 1, at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.

GARSTANG Golf Club professional Will Barnes has dreams of qualifying for the Open Championship at Turnberry next month.

Players who are soon to be eligible for the Champions Tour : * David Frost : Winner of 10 PGA Tour events including the World Series of Golf, and 22 titles worldwide.

Regardless of whether Jay Haas has whipped his golf game into the kind of form he's accustomed to displaying, his return to En-Joie Golf Club this week figures to be far more pleasurable than was his most recent visit.

Fred Couples turns 50 this year and while he still has the silkiest swing in the game and is playing his best golf in years, he isn't chomping at the bit to join the old guys on the PGA Champions Tour.

With an exceptional field in place for this week's Dick's Sporting Goods Open, let us skip ahead a summer or two or three for a look at some intriguing potential scenarios looming at En-Joie Golf Club.

Talk about brutal conditions at the U.S. Open. The wind was gusting, blowing rain sideways and creating waves in puddles that were nearing ankle deep.

For all the reports from Norman and his U.S. counterpart, Fred Couples, go to presidentscup.com. From Greg Norman: Hello again.

With the completion of the third round of the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament, Penn State's Kevin Foley remains in first place.

Last week, after playing a practice round at Bethpage Black , Tiger Woods phoned Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

With legendary names such as Arnold Palmer and Greg Norman singing his praise, Eddie Merrins is one of the most respected golf instructors in the business.

Camilo Villegas, who has emerged as one of the top players in golf, found himself without a regular caddie after his looper decided to leave him to work part-time for Sergio Garcia.

Instead of swinging a club, Rocco Mediate will be carrying them Friday for Ben Roethlisberger.

The smallest golfers competing in the Ringgold Telephone Company Junior Classic proved an old golf axiom.