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By Robert Gautney
Saturday, Feb 04 2012 06:48 PM
Four or five years ago, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson occupied the No. 1 and No. 5 positions on the 100 Most Powerful Athlete List. My, how times have changed.
The latest Top 100 rankings by Bloomburg/Business Week has no golfer in the top 10. The top three are Drew Brees, Aaron Rogers and Tom Brady. Woods sits at No.12 and Mickelson at No.18.
Ok, so you are asking how did they come up with this list. More than 3,000 of the top athletes from every sport that you can imagine were evaluated using a 50 percent "off-field" rank and a 50 percent "on-field" rank from everything to how they fared against other players or athletes in their sport to off field endorsements, profile and etc.
Ok, so back to the golf side of things. Woods isn't even the top ranking golfer any longer. That laurel is now bestowed on Luke Donald, the No.1 ranked player in the world who came in at No.11, just a notch above Woods.
Lee Westwood at No.19 was the only other golfer in the top 20, while just outside of that was Rory McIlroy at 21. Then you have to go all the way down to No.71 to find Martin Kaymer, with Adam Scott at No. 84 and Steve Stricker at No. 100.
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The Bakersfield College Men's golf team always has the same goals each and every season. Winning the Western State Conference title is always No.1 on that list and if they accomplish that goal then the remainder of the team goals will follow.
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Bob Hope would be happy.
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Horse Thief Country Club and Golf Course in Tehachapi is technically a Country Club. But General Manager David De Polo and head golf professional Tim Cobb, PGA, would like to remind the folks in and around Bakersfield and Kern County that the course and restaurant are open to the public.
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Hello 2012! If you are like most golfers, then you probably told yourself as the new year was approaching that you were going to change some things about yourself and your golf game.
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And the winner is......Bhavik Patel. The Pro Shop Golf "Performance of the Year" award, presented by The Californian's weekly online "Tee to Green" golf column, once again goes to the current No.1 player for Fresno State. Only this time, it was a super tough decision to award Patel for the third time in the four- year history of the award.
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For the past four years, five including this year, Tee to Green, in conjunction with Pro Shop Golf, has given out an award for the top individual performance for the year. However, it wouldn't be right to omit the accomplishments (with or without an award) of the fine teams that made headlines throughout the year, whether it was a two-player team or multi-player teams.
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Contributing golf columnist
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The Bob Hope Classic has been around since 1961, but over the last two years the golf tournament had been operating without a title sponsor when longtime affiliate Chrysler ended its sponsorship.
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The list of nominees for the 2011 Pro Shop Golf "Performance of the Year" award presented by Tee to Green has been whittled down to the final 15.
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Pre-tournament hype doesn't always live up to its billing, but local stars Bhavik Patel and Manav Shah made sure their favorites role would have been a good bet.
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Contributing columnist
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The rest of the season will be on the line today for the Stockdale High girls golf team and a pair of players from Frontier High as the CIF Southern California Regional Championships will be played on The Golf Club at Rancho California golf course in Murrieta.
