PGA

PITTSBURGH -- Jack Nicklaus was so focused on winning his first professional golf tournament, especially one as important as the U.S. Open, that he wasn't aware of everything going on around him.

Facing Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff at Oakmont Country Club in 1962, the then-22-year-old prodigy from Columbus, Ohio, had no idea that the crowd was so against him that his dad had to be restrained by none other than Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes from going after antagonists in the gallery.

SEATTLE -- James Lepp, the University of Washington golfer who won the 2005 NCAA championship, thinks it's funny when a big deal is made about the pressure of a valuable putt on the PGA Tour.

CHICAGO -- Bo Van Pelt has yet to sneak a peek at the Ryder Cup points list. Honest.

"If you put too much emphasis on (points)," he said during the Masters, "you're probably not going to perform. The best thing to do is try to win golf tournaments."

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tiger Woods' latest temper tantrum did not go over well with some fans at the Masters.

Woods caused a scene with his boorish behavior at buttoned-down Augusta National on Friday, scowling, cursing, tossing clubs. He even went so far as to give one a swift kick after his shot on the 16th tee landed in the bunker.

"It's not what you want to see," said Charles Hatcher III, who was at the course on Saturday with his 11-year-old son, Charles IV, and his father, Charles Sr. "Golf is a gentleman's game, and you should treat it as such."

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's an eternal and mostly fruitless debate: Masters or U.S. Open?

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Randal Lewis launched his Masters week by playing a practice round with Tom Watson. The pairing made sense -- two players defying Father Time -- so Lewis wrote to Watson and requested the round, and the eight-time major champion happily obliged.