The PGA Tour has long been known for playing the finest golf courses in all the land. At almost every stop you see a golf course that looks like the color green was invented there, with perfect greens and plush fairways that makes even the casual golf fan jealous of the view.

This week at the Wells Fargo Championship was not one of those weeks. Quail Hollow struggled with weather, and the greens showed it, with blotchy spots on every green made even uglier by high definition.

How bad did it get? In the second round, Sergio Garcia elected to chip a six-foot par putt instead of roll it along the green because of all the spike marks and debris in his way. The result? Soft hands, great touch and a par.

Now that is definitely something you don't see everyday, but you have to give it up to Sergio for coming up with a way to get around the problem.

On Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship, Derek Ernst outlasted David Lynn to win his first ever PGA Tour title.

Don't feel bad if you've never heard of the 22-year-old, ranked 1207 in the world before his playoff win on Sunday, because you aren't the only one.

After the win, Luke Donald, ranked No. 5 in the world, tweeted the following message letting everyone know he was a little in the dark as well.

Never heard of Derek Ernst until this week, shows how deep the fields are on the PGA Tour, welcome to the winners circle #GoodForHim

— Luke Donald (@LukeDonald) May 5, 2013

If you think Donald was saying anything negative about the guy, he pointed out in a response to a follower that he was simply admitting that the fields these days are so deep that a guy nobody has ever heard of can beat the likes of Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood.

Sloane Stephens — Getty ImagesRemember a few months back when Sloane Stephens went up against Serena Williams in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and stories upon stories were made about how the student was finally getting to face her mentor?

Well, apparently that wasn't so much the case. In an interview with ESPN the Magazine, Stephens held nothing back in how she feels about Williams, basically tearing apart any semblance of a relationship the two American tennis players might have had.

[Also: Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn hit the red carpet in NYC]

Here is a part of the story that comes out on May 13 ...

“She’s not said one word to me, not spoken to me, not said hi, not looked my way, not been in the same room with me since I played her in Australia,” Stephens says emphatically. “And that should tell everyone something, how she went from saying all these nice things about me to unfollowing me on Twitter.”

Her mom tries to slow her down, but Sloane is insistent. “Like, seriously! People should know. They

Move over Golf Boys, we have a new group in town. Well, a new threesome of guys that spent plenty of time on an "Ice, Ice, Baby" parody that is either the best or worst thing I've ever watched.

Teaching pro Marty McCurry and his groupies did this, and I must say, while the video and graphics isn't exactly "Life of Pi," the lyrics are darn clever and the whole thing is entertaining if nothing else.

h/t Press Tent

Bill Haas — Getty ImagesThis year I was coerced by a hockey writing friend of mine to do a weekly one-and-done golf pool that allows you to pick one golfer, never to use them again in 2013. Since I'm doing it for fun (and DEFINITELY not for money, no way, no how), I figured I'd post my weekly picks here, with who I've already used under it and my record for the year, and against the others in the pool. We're calling this Darts in the Dark.

Wells Fargo pick: Bill Haas

It has been a weird year for picking golfers. Tiger Woods seemed like a lock at the Masters only to flame out over the weekend. Phil Mickelson has been incredibly hot (at the Waste Management) and ridiculously cold (everywhere else) and Rory McIlroy hasn't woke up from his golf hibernation.

It's a year that has seen a guy named Billy Horschel become arguably the best player in the game to date and players like Hunter Mahan struggling to break 80. It's gotten so bad around these parts with picks that a buddy of mine who, if gambling was legal,

IndependentRemember 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 is this new pre-teen sensation?

His resume is pretty spectacular. Wo-Cheng broke Tiger Woods' record at the US World Junior Championship in San Diego by shooting 12-under par to win the event, something he's done twice, and he made waves in China by winning the Guangdong Junior Championship by 18 shots.

Say what you want about the youth movement in professional golf, but if Wo-Cheng is anything like

David Eger — Getty ImagesOf 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-husband 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.

From the great Sports Illustrated report by Michael Bamberger ...

"I could see there was a divot -- not a divot, a divot hole -- when he played the shot the second time that was not there the first time," Eger said. "I played it again and again. I could see that the fairway was spotless the first time he played the shot and there was that divot hole, maybe three or four feet in front of where he played after the drop."

The funny

Bubba Watson — Getty ImagesIt has been a day since NBA player Jason Collins announced he was gay. And despite the fact that it's 2013, people apparently still get divided on this issue. While most everyone in the sports world seemed to show support for Collins, there were a select few that took the other microphone.

ESPN brought analyst Chris Broussard on during a special "Outside the Lines" to talk about his views, and he was emphatically against the idea of homosexuality.

Here part of what he said, courtesy of Balls Don't Lie:

[Also: ESPN analyst clarifies views on Jason Collins]

"I'm a Christian. I don't agree with homosexuality. I think it's a sin, as I think all sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is. [ESPN's] L.Z. [Granderson] knows that. He and I have played on basketball teams together for several years. We've gone out, had lunch together, we've had good conversations, good laughs together. He knows where I stand and I know where he stands. I don't