By Marty Hackel

updated 7:10 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2008

Who says golfers aren't athletes?
Mark Calcavecchia, who earlier in the year hurt his back throwing his hat to the ground, comparing himself to Tiger Woods: "He could run from here to downtown. I couldn't run out of a burning house."

You might want to pass on dinner at the Glovers'
Lucas Glover, on being in contention at the British Open: "This is the icing on the gravy."

John Daly, role model
John Daly, addressing fans at a clinic: "I know I look buff, but you'll never see me in a gym. They don't let me bring my beer and my smokes."

Phil finds a way to beat Tiger at something else
News report: Phil Mickelson takes a group of caddies and their families to dinner after a round of the Players, picking up the check for $5,400 and adding a $2,000 tip.

Some guys only have to worry about oversleeping
During the Stanford St. Jude Championship, Daly says his fourth wife, Sherrie, tried to stab him with a steak knife while he was sleeping.

Four months later, Sergio coughs up a major at Carnoustie
Sergio Garcia spits into the cup after three-putting at Doral.

Who knew Harry Connick Jr. has stage fright?
Jazz crooner Harry Connick Jr., on keeping other people from watching him play golf: "I don't care how much it costs. ... I'll book five tee times before me and five after me."

And, oddly enough, rap looks like one of those things you can just do
Rapper 50 Cent: "I was actually at a charity golf event, and golf looked like one of those sorts of things you can just do. I was there for about an hour before I could move the ball."

You call it menial labor; I call it a gold mine
Tiger Woods' caddie, Steve Williams, donates almost $1 million to a children's hospital in New Zealand.

Oh, the irony
Announcer Ian Baker-Finch, who once achieved the near-impossible by hitting a tee shot O.B. left on the first hole of the Old Course, is beaned by a wild shot at Westchester.

On the bitter scale, this is an 11
Longtime tour pro/teacher Mac O'Grady, in The Detroit News: "When Nicklaus and Palmer played, when Hogan played and Sam Snead played, on a scale of zero to 10, they were a 9-plus. Tiger Woods is not even a 1-plus."

Man attacks Shark
Former Olympic skier Andy Mill, after his marriage with Chris Evert broke up and she began seeing Greg Norman: "Greg Norman at one time was my best friend, and a year and a half ago I would have taken a bullet for this guy. But I didn't realize he was the one who was going to pull the trigger."

He'd been wearing his good-luck pair since the '95 Open
Caddie Eric Schwarz, when asked if Corey Pavin had changed anything before the start of the 2007 season: "Just his underwear."

Failed story pitch: John Daly hitting flop shots in fishnets
Photographs of boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya purportedly wearing fishnet stockings appear on the Internet shortly after he announces his purchase of The Ring magazine by saying, "We want to make it a sexier magazine, a magazine you want to pick up. I read Golf Digest and look at that as the perfect blueprint. It gives you all the information on golf. They have golf superstars doing columns. . . . I think, Why can't The Ring be like that?"