Sam Snead, the golfing great known as **Slammin’ Sam** who used the sweetest swing in the game to win seven major championships and a record 81 PGA TOUR events, died Thursday at age 89.

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He was famous for his straw hat, cocky grin and homespun humor. A three-time Masters champion, Snead had been an honorary starter since 1983. He would jaunt to the first tee, show off that flowing, flawless swing and then tell stories outside the clubhouse.

I remember several interviews he did with Peter Kessler on [[The Golf Channel]] and he always had a story to tell and a twinkle in his eyes. His was the first of what is now known as a classic swing, and there was never one smoother.

Israel really has no choice.

Maps of *Palestine* on the walls of Arafat’s offices – occasionally seen in news photos or television footage – are actually maps of Israel… It would take far more room than I have here to list all of the Palestinian agencies, publications, organizations, and Web sites in which Palestine is shown as encompassing all of Israel….
On the day he signed the first Oslo accord at the White House in 1993, Arafat told an interviewer that the agreement *will be a basis for an independent Palestinian state in accordance with the Palestine National Council resolution issued in 1974.” He was referring to the PLO’s ”phased plan,” which was adopted in Cairo on June 9, 1974. It calls for establishing a Palestinian state on any Israeli land that can be acquired through negotiation, then using that territory as a forward base for ”liberating* the rest of Israel by force.

If somebody tells you that they are going to kill you (which hopefully will never happen), will you let them, or will you fight back and try to stop them? You’d probably fight back. In that case, who is the only one that can actually stop the violence? The one that issued the original threat.

There it is. If you support the Palestinians, you support the complete destruction of Israel.

Every time [[Tiger]] tees it up it seems, he’s setting a new record or chasing an old one.

Nothing better explains the magnitude of Woods’s domination of professional golf, perhaps, than this reality: Still just 26 years old, he steps into the history books almost weekly.

Case in point: This weekend’s bid to win a fourth straight Memorial would put him in select company. Only Gene Sarazen (Miami Open, 1926, ’28-30) and Walter Hagen (PGA Championship, 1924-27) have won the same tournament four times in a row.

The entire tour seems to be caught in the headlights of the on-rushing [[Tiger]].