Cold and dreary weather sums up the last week here in Indy. The weather was a little better over in Columbus where I played at Scioto CC last weekend. The golf course was great and it definitely has the character to hold another major. The format over there was a two best ball of a fivesome at scratch, no handicap.

Of course most of the players were from Ohio and naturally I took a lot of ribbing about IU football. But I did remind them about our Colts and how we were looking forward to Anthony Gonzalez getting back on the field this season. The Colts are off to a good start again and have this week off to rest. Sometimes when they have a bye week some of the players will get in a little golf but the weather has been less than ideal for golf, high 40s and rain has been the norm here since last week.

The IndyCar Series season ended last Saturday evening with Dario Franchitti winning the race at Homestead and also winning the series championship. Congratulations to Dario and to the Target Chip Ganassi Racing Team on a great season. Dario’s teammate Scott Dixon finished second in the championship.

The PGA Tour is in Las Vegas as the players make a run for the top 125 and exemptions for next season. The Nationwide is in Florida with Craig Bowden trying to stay in the top 25 to earn an exemption onto the tour next season. Craig opened with a 1-under-par 71.

Back to Vegas, one of the leaders after the first round is Tom Pernice Jr. Tom just turned 50 here a few weeks back and won his first Champions Tour event and now is in contention to win on the regular tour.

The President’s Cup ended last weekend with the United States team winning in somewhat of a dominant fashion. To start the week off all the media wanted to know was the situation between International Team captain Greg Norman and his wife Chris Everett. It was reported they had separated after 18 months of marriage and Greg had just had surgery on his shoulder. Greg’s response to the questions was very classy and to the point, they were there to play golf and his personal life would not be discussed that week.

After the matches were over there was a little flap over Anthony Kim and his social life the night before the single matches. Kim played Robert Allenby and beat him 5 and 3. Kim was well under par for the match and Allenby said that Kim was out until 4a.m. that morning. Long story short is that they have made up and decided to move on. U.S. captain Fred Couples did a great job of getting this team together and having them play their best golf. Fred definitely needs to be a Ryder Cup captain in the future. Fred had some great assistants with him in Jay Haas and none other than basketball great Michael Jordan.

That is about all that is going on in the golf world and I would like to send a get well wish to our friend Bill Schumaker from Columbia City, Indiana. Bill had heart surgery a week ago and is recovering nicely. Bill is an Indiana Golf Hall of Fame member and has won every possible professional tournament in Indiana along with a PGA National Club Professional Championship.

The weather has got to turn back to at least normal and we still are waiting for that Indian summer we always have here in Indiana. Book a tee time and get out and play some golf before the snow flies.