The PGA Tour stops at Torrey Pines this week for the event formerly known as the Buick Invitational. Nick Watney won the event last year. The defending champion has had great success in this event over the last decade.

The 57th annual PGA Merchandise Show starts today in Orlando with the 8th annual Outdoor Demo Day at Orange County National Golf Center. There will be approximately 90 companies demonstrating hard goods on the course's circular driving range.

The new rules regarding grooves will be adopted as a condition of competition for the 2010 U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open and U.S. Senior Open, as well as sectional (final stage) qualifying events for these three championships. The condition will not be in effect at local (first stage) qualifying events for the 2010 U.S. Open or at any of the USGA's national championships and team competitions that are contested by amateurs only. There is no local (first stage) qualifying stage for the U.S Women's Open or U.S. Senior Open.

The affable baseball great with the ridiculous stockpile of witticisms -- aka Yogisms -- will carry out many of the duties that a host would, gestures that would come naturally anyway at the 51st edition of the five-round PGA Tour pro-am, which tees off Jan. 20 on four La Quinta courses.

As the snow starts to drop here in St. Louis, I have mixed emotions of watching the SBS Championship as it's about 80 degrees with gentle tradewinds making me wonder why I am not in Maui.