If 2013 doesn't go down as the year Mother Nature won the FedEx Cup, it might just be the year of the weird drops.

That continued at the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Bulgaria, when Denmark's Nicolas Colsaerts found himself in a situation that you probably won't ever see again no matter how much golf you watch over the next few decades.

Colsaerts was playing Graeme McDowell when his tee shot on par-4 10th hole flew well out of play and into a public toilet close to the green.

He was then told that he had to take a one-stroke penalty drop within the cubicle. The ball was dropped

Most people waste time at work. They check websites or take smoke breaks or spend a few extra minutes in the bathroom to pass the time until that clock hits 5.

At one of the biggest golf companies in the world, wasting time means something totally different. The man you see above is Logan Fondren, the custom club manager at Callaway Golf taking some time at the Callaway office to attempt a putt that looked just about impossible.

According to a friend at Callaway, Fondren only needed eight takes to hit this putt that went down the stairs, against the boards, back down another set of stairs and

There's a phrase that describes Sergio Garcia's two balls into the water at the 17th hole at The Players Championship, just as he was tied with Tiger Woods after 70 holes, on the same weekend in which he engaged in some venomous woofing with Tiger, and that phrase is:

Career-defining.

The Sergio who rinsed two balls en route to a quadruple-bogey seven on Sawgrass' 17th hole is the same Sergio who has zero career Major championships to Tiger's 14; who has eight career wins in 251 US Tour starts to Tiger's 78 wins in 300 starts; who has now been schooled by Tiger seven of seven times when

No matter if you love golf or hate it, you have to admit that there is no more cherished piece of clothing in all of sports than the green jacket.

The Masters gives a jacket in your size if you are able to win at Augusta National and for a year you get to take it any place your heart, and agent, desires.

Adam Scott is in the field this week at the Players Championship and was asked about the newest addition to his closet on Wednesday.

How often does he pull out the green jacket? Every single day.

"When I walk in the closet I put the green jacket on every morning, I do. I've enjoyed that I've

Derek Ernst is a winner on the US PGA Tour, and that's big news for his family back in the central California town of Clovis, Calif., his buddies from UNLV who nicknamed him "Stripes" for his consistent contact and for the staff at the Foster's Freeze in Clovis who used to serve Ernst and his girlfriend the "Reese's Twister" when they went on nightly ice cream runs in their hometown.

Outside of that crew, nobody knew who Ernst was prior to his big day at Quail Hollow.

Oh, the things a golf writer can learn when researching the life and times of a 22-year-old, quick-swinging bomber ranked

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Remember when Guan Tianlang was the big story in the golfing world because of how young he was and how he was going to play in the Masters? And remember when we all freaked out, saying jokes like, "I could barely carry my own bag at 14-years-old," when Guan arrived at Augusta National?

Yeah, that's old news, pun intended, with the arrival of Ye Wo-Cheng. The, ahem, 12-year-old amateur will become the youngest player to ever tee it up in a European Tour event this week at the China Open, being just one of four players that got through qualifying for the event at Binhai Lake Golf Club.

So who

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Of the tens of millions of people that tune in each day to the Masters, one person called in on Tiger Woods during his second round at Augusta National to report a penalty.

Rumors flew around of who it might have been, even landing on the ex-boyfriend of Tiger's current lady, Lindsey Vonn. So who really called in? A professional golfer.

David Eger, a 61-year-old Champions Tour player who has won four times in his career on the over-50 tour, was the man that rang a tournament official he knew working for the Masters to tell of the illegal drop he thought Woods took.

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For the first time since 1981, the world will descend on Merion Golf Club's East Course on June 13 for the second Major championship of the year and the fifth time the US Open has been hosted there.

One thing you should expect to see? Wicker baskets adorning the tops of the flagsticks all across Merion's famed links.

Why wicker baskets instead of traditional flags? Let the Merion Golf Club website explain it:

"The wicker baskets' origin is a mystery to this day. There was a great deal written in 1912, and for three years thereafter, locally and nationally about this new course in