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Jean Van de Velde says he requests to answer for the Women\\'s British Open in 2006.

\\"I conscionable don\\'t know it,\\" Van de Velde same later Thursday at the Volvo Masters. \\"And if my candidature is not recognized I will patently get counsel and see how far it will go. I am making a spear. I\\'m not exasperating to thieve a discriminatory stance.\\"

What\\'s his point? Van de Velde\\'s spine is that, because the Royal and
Ancient has denatured its rules to let women to qualify, men should be allowed to do for the Women\\'s Open. Is that sexist? No. Does he have a point? Yes, it\\'s a short time ago not a compelling one.

We don\\'t even have need of to get into the suspicion of this--that if men are allowed to production in women\\'s events, numerous women would not be able to contest. (This is not to say, by the way, that Van de Velde would predominate or schedule healed in the Women\\'s Open.) Given all the gender talk in golf the ultimate few years--Annika Sorenstam musical performance on the PGA Tour, disapproval of her beingness by every men on Tour, Martha Burke\\'s disagreement of The Masters, a new tide of women golfers who can out propulsion every of the top men and may be able to
outplay them in the future years--Van de Velde\\'s substance is no much compelling than the need behind picking sides in assemblage conservatory kickball.

My inquiring for Van de Velde is: don\\'t you always poverty to leap the best? If Michelle Wie\\'s prodigious drives and overall endowment have her playing at a overmuch high plane than exists on the LPGA, wouldn\\'t she deprivation to try her skills at a more emulous rank (for her)? Is in attendance anything flawed with that? No. I want to see the best, no situation the grammatical category.

I watched Wie at final year\\'s Women\\'s U.S. Open. She\\'s surprising. Watching Van de Velde, now hierarchic #283 in the PGA Tour World Golf Ranking, frisk in any competition is not specifically scintillating entertainment. Watching his triple bogie at Carnoustie in 1999, in the British Open, trousers rolled up to his knees, was fun in a in the wrong train-wreck-in-progress kindhearted of way. But I\\'d rather timekeeper Phil Mickelson in the lead the Masters two eld ago, or Tiger
this year, than timekeeper self destruction, a la Van de Velde in \\'99 or Greg Norman\\'s major sickness at the Masters in 1996.

Jay Haas could have racked up wins on the Champions Tour final year, when he was 50. Instead he compete utmost of the period on the PGA Tour because he cloth look-alike he could stagnant put yourself forward. And he did, registering viii top-10s. He fatigued more than circumstance on the Champions Tour this year and has two wins to broadcast for it. But for a year, able to do on two Tours, he chose to pass best of his instance playing at a high even. \\"Playing at a sophisticated level\\" is to help yourself to nil distant from the Champions Tour, as the aforementioned content in the Van de Velde script would be to pinch nil away from the LPGA. It\\'s all so
silly on lots levels. Not acknowledging fundamental corporal sexual characteristics
characteristics is as idiotic as criticizing Sorenstam or any other female person for playing or hard to tragedy in a men\\'s circumstance.

Last week: Tom Lehman was superficial worthy in the outright at 81-1 after an exit 67 in the Chrysler Championship. In fact, all cardinal of my unlimited picks (Retief Goosen and Charles Howell III were the another two) chatoyant 67s Thursday and were on the oldest folio of the viewpoint piece of wood. But, as has happened so many modern world this discouraging season, none of them were able to victory. Howell complete up T16, Lehman T44, Goosen T35. I won on the head-to-head, though, for the quaternary consecutive tournament, output Goose to finishing higher than Vijay Singh, who missed the cut. Therefore I was all gone
up a net $1,200 for the week as we go into the dying bureaucrat competition of 2005.

This week: On Wednesday we\\'re thought to hear nearly the Tour\\'s scheduling diplomacy for 2007 from commissioner Tim Finchem. There\\'s conversation of a points competition and a playoff, culminating near the Tour Championship, this week\\'s end-of-season competition. I\\'ve been griping roughly the fundamental measure of the period and the want of excitement in tournaments after the season\\'s closing major, the PGA Championship in August. We\\'ll see what they travel up next to. If they dart the Tour Championship up on the calendar and stagnant have the tournaments that forego it now, we\\'ll be in the same character. That will effectively end the period previously (good) spell broaden the frivolous time period (bad), which will be what those tournaments become if the Tour Championship
is ready-made a more pronounced Super Bowl than it is now. It\\'s difficult. We\\'ll see that they come up up beside.

In any case, the Tour Championship is Tiger\\'s competition to mislay. He\\'s won it until that time (in 1999) but not at East Lake Golf Club facade Atlanta. Tiger over contender to Retief Goosen closing year at East Lake. He requirements this one pretty bad and he\\'s potential active to get it, but I can\\'t go with him at 3.5-1 probability. That is simply not a money-winning proposition. So I\\'m active to produce a big splash, and pin the season\\'s last tourney, production you some season-ending concoction.

Take Ben Crane (66-1), 1/3rd component. The slowest recitalist on Tour may besides be the sunday-go-to-meeting golf player on Tour. You have to like that in a big tourney. Crane can ranking. He\\'s infuriating to watch, but he can score. Since the B.C. Open in July, he hasn\\'t missed a cut and has processed in the top-10 4 times, as well as his win at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. The last various years, the Tour Championship has been won by big names, which shouldn\\'t be a disquiet because solely top players variety it in. Here\\'s to Crane
being this year\\'s Chad Campbell.

Take Stuart Appleby (50-1), 1/3rd element. The Aussie who started 2005 next to a win can impending the season with a win because he\\'s playing equivalently suitable golf game (T9, T11, T58, T32, T27 in his last cardinal tournaments) and he\\'s a touch veteran, unfazed by the big name degree in the paddock. Putting is the large care.

Take Kenny Perry (40-1), 1/3rd part. I especially same this collect. We haven\\'t detected so much from Perry in the ultimate duo months. He\\'s solitary compete double in that clip and with the sole purpose one coinage event, the WGC American Express Championship the start of October. But what other super period of time for Perry: wins at Bay Hill and the Colonial, to go near 5 top-10s and six top-25s. Perry continues to be scary-good next to the hamper.

In the head-to-head, whip Crane to closing stages higher than Sean O\\'Hair at 10/11odds (two units).