Lee Winters

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Lee Winters @muddybottomgolf]

@KingTunde_SZN 56

[Jason Sobel @JasonSobelGolf]

Can’t LIV Golf continue without any funding? I mean, it was all just about growing the game anyway.

[Michael S. Kim @Mike_kim714]

@TronCarterNLU Trying to do my best to enter the Fedora 5. Lots of work left

[Jason Sobel @JasonSobelGolf]

Great line from Cameron Young in his post-round interview with Fred Albers on @SiriusXMPGATOUR:

Albers: "It seems like every hole on this course asks a question..."

Young: "Yeah, how do you want to make a 6?"

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

Reminder that a Monday Q changed Cam Young’s life.

Had no status, Monday Q’d into a KFT event in Nebraska, finished 11th, got him into next event, finished 14th that week, earned another start, finished 6th, earned another week, finished 2nd, earned membership and has never looked back.

Now a Players Champion.

It all started at a Monday Q in Nebraska.

[Kyle Thompson @KyleThompsonPGA]

Congrats to @akshaybhatia_1 on winning the @APinv!

I wonder who the last person to win a PGA Tour event with eyeglasses? Tom Kite?

[Billy Horschel @BillyHo_Golf]

@TronCarterNLU @5ClubsGolf @the_cognizant @Garywilliams1Up @PGATOUR @GolfChannel @SiriusXMPGATOUR @espn @PGANatl Unfortunately, not the Tour’s fault. Owners of PGA National do it. Tour have tried to state why it shouldn’t be overseeded but end of the day it’s out of their hands. 1 thing going forward that we need to do is make sure we have complete control of the setup of all Tour courses.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Bill Maher: “Kids, first of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it too.”

[Rick Golfs @Top100Rick]

“Anthony Kim taking a risk here that I think is unnecessary”.

AK was 3 back when he made the shot of the tournament. This could have easily led to double.

The STONES to go for this. He had no business trying, laying up was the math play no doubt. But he went for it.

Bogey here and the whole round changes most likely.

We need more players willing to lay it out on the line. We need more fist pumps and more passion. We need more firm turf and relevant trees.

Today was so refreshing.

[Lee Winters @muddybottomgolf]

@wesleybryangolf Feels like you didn’t try hard enough.

[Jason Sobel @JasonSobelGolf]

Patrick Reed wins in Qatar and he now leads the DP World Tour points list with 2,259. Last year, that total would’ve ranked eighth among those without previous PGA Tour status. In other words, he’s likely already locked up his card for next year by early-February.

[Jason Sobel @JasonSobelGolf]

The OWGR average point differential between Scottie Scheffler at No. 1 and Rory McIlroy at No. 2 is currently the same as the differential between McIlroy and Kyungnam Kang, who’s ranked 677th.

[Teddy Heffner @theTeddyHeffner]

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[John Maginnes @johnmaginnes]

@Daniel_Rapaport I don't understand why he needed an to use his career money exemption...he has more than 20 career wins which comes with a lifetime exemption...perhaps a better category

[Jason Sobel @JasonSobelGolf]

My favorite golf memory of 2025:

If we’re talking about the most historic storyline, it’s obviously Rory McIlroy claiming the career slam at Augusta National. If it’s a singular moment, I could at least argue for J.J. Spaun at the U.S. Open.

But a “favorite memory” is more personal.

I could choose from hundreds – whether work-related or on the course myself – but as someone who enjoys a good laugh, this one stands out.

Back in March, I attended the Wednesday night pro-am party at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. I’d never been to one before – they usually keep us media folk far away from the paying guests. A few of my buddies were playing, though, and they’d asked me to come along.

The emcee for the night was the great Peter Jacobsen, who announced there would be a golf trivia contest for all pro-am competitors. Well, one of my friends whom I’ll call Rod (because that’s his name) wound up with one of the four top scores in the room and was called to the front for a lightning round of trivia.

At this point, Jacobsen announces in his most reverential tone that there will be a “very special prize” for the winner. Hanging with a few of the guys in the back of the room, we started guessing amongst ourselves. One of Mr. Palmer’s old clubs? A massive gift card from title sponsor MasterCard? All of a sudden, things were getting serious.

OK, not that serious. When Jacobsen asked, “Where did Arnold Palmer win his first U.S. Open?” Rod answered “America!” before being told that response was both “very correct” and “very wrong.”

Just like one of Tiger Woods’ vaunted comebacks at Bay Hill, though, Rod started to make his move. He finished in a flurry that was the trivia equivalent of a back-nine 29 to win the contest and claim that very special prize.

We couldn’t wait to see it. Even for someone who’s worked in the industry for a while, the chance for a buddy to own a piece of history would be pretty incredible.

I looked around for perhaps a few white-gloved assistants to unsheathe this reward, but Jacobsen instead proclaimed it was in his hands.

And then he gave Rod a piece of paper on which there was an inscription:

“CERTIFICATE OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE”

Maybe this won’t resonate for you, maybe it was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments, but after all that build-up, we laughed until tears were coming out of our eyes.

Kudos to Peter for the sell job, a story we continue to tell just about every time we tee it up.

And a nice reminder that sometimes even the most useless thing can live on as a favorite memory.

[Hootie & The Blowfish @HootieTweets]

You all really loved this one from the comments we saw on the "Scattered, Smothered & Covered" anniversy post! 🐡

[Lee Winters @muddybottomgolf]

@SHistorians @talkingolf Yes

[Jake Knapp’s Lifting Coach @TalkBirdie2Mee]

I’m sure Justin Rose got offered a ton of money from LIV just like his other washed European buddies. Instead of playing a meaningless tournament in Chicago this weekend, he bet on himself and wins a PLAYOFF event at 45 years old! He is going to be a problem at Bethpage

[Teddy Heffner @theTeddyHeffner]

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