About that bulletin board...

There’s a lot of talk, especially in the NFL and other “marquee” sports, about “bulletin-board material”: a player or team uses an opponent’s trash talk as motivation to deliver a beatdown on said trash-talker. There isn’t as much talk about it in golf, though Tiger Woods has on several occasions seemingly used comments by his fellow players as motivation to teach said talkers a lesson. Just ask Steven Ames and Rory Sabbatini. It seems that Tiger now has company in the “bulletin board” club, in the person of Anthony Kim. Kim’s controversy with Robert Allenby is well-known, and in their first meeting since the President’s Cup, Kim delivered a sound beatdown to Allenby. Not only did Kim make seemingly every putt, but he refused to concede a single one of Allenby’s putts, even those within commonly-considered “gimme” range. The lesson to be learned here: if you’re going to be playing Anthony Kim, don’t give him any bulletin-board material. You’ll only hurt yourself.