Yet another edition of TIKTIK…there is no regularity, rhyme nor reason to these installments.

. Rory McIlroy is immensely talented but the media teenage crush on him is too much, too soon…

.. Dustin Johnson has contended in three majors in the last 14 months. The media supermarket-checkout-line assault on him is too much, too soon…

… The Porter Cup will have 2 2011 Nationwide Tour winners (Henley and English) and a runner-up (Peterson) in its field this week in Lewiston/Niagara Falls, New York. I think that someone just might shoot 59, if conditions allow…

…. Bethpage is everything that it’s cracked up to be. That Long Island has it (90 holes) plus Eisenhower Park (54 holes at that joint) makes me weep when I think of Beaver Island’s 18 mundane holes…

….. Mike Keiser saved golf. Simple as that. Saved golf. First, Bandon Dunes. Then, Barnbougle Dunes. Now, Cabot Links. If you’ve not heard of any of them, Google/Bing/Search and find out…

…… Technology has made the amateur golfer more straight than long. We think we are longer because we are straighter…more vertical and less horizontal. If you are still horizontal, get lessons or quit the game…

……. If you ever take a caddy, don’t take a friend. Employ someone who will tell you what to do, then shut your brain off and listen. You’ll be amazed at the results. If you think you know more than the caddy, you are doomed to fail AND you are an idiot…

…….. Four is the minimum number of participants in a golfing road trip. Three makes it too hard on the one guy who isn’t crazy and two is asking for trouble. I have NO IDEA how the guys who go on golf trips with me, put up with me…

……….If you learn to hit punch shots that run up to the green during this hot, dry summer, you’ll begin to make better contact and your aerial assaults will improve during wet springs and autumns…