On the Tee from Loogootee Indiana...

In baseball, it's "Play Ball!"
In car racing, "Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines!"
At the horse races, "And they're off!"
And out here at Lakeview Golf Course, we had marching bands and fireworks and dancing girls along with free coffee and doughnuts. Well, almost... In reality, Dan Steiner was the golfer with the opening shot, no doubt a honey right down the center of the fairway. Dan was out here early, even had to wait for the frost to clear the greens, but then got around in workman like fashion coming in with a net 37. So we start our league season: the sun is shining and the temperatures are warming. And the day promises to be a good one for our golfers. Nice.

Golf World this week has "feisty teen Morgan Pressel" on its cover, youngest LPGA major champion with her victory at the Kraft-Nabisco. Congrats to the youngster. Now we need to hear from some of those other super teens on the Ladies' tour, including Michelle Wie.

And while I'm at Golf World, which I do enjoy, the Lipout section has this from Halle Berry (along with a picture of her looking very coy): "I just want to be a decent golfer and have the guys be happy that I'm with them, not like, 'Oh damn, here comes Halle.'" Hmmm, message for Halle: if you run into problems elsewhere, Ms. Berry, you just come on down to our little town here in southern Indiana. We would be more than happy to have you join us here at Lakeview. No objections, right, guys?