Kevin Na got a bit of revenge on the hole where he carded a 16 last year, Bud Cauley proved he's a rookie worth watching, and Matt Kuchar impressed as the big dog as the field. But it was Matt Every, who brought home a course-record 63, who leads the field right now. Play continues on Friday and, most likely, through the weekend.

Jon Gruden and John Daly in 2008. (Getty Images)

There are two reasons we haven't covered the absolutely hysterical Bobby Petrino-on-a-cycle story: 1. It broke during the Masters, which led to plenty of hilarity in the media room but no room to cover it on our site, and 2. This is a golf site, and unfortunately he wasn't driving a golf cart. But guess what! Now we can get in on the action!

None other than John Daly, proud and outspoken Arkansas alum, took to Twitter to ask Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long to hire Daly's pal Jon Gruden for the gig:

@jefflongUAstill strong behind Gruden as i still think he would be the man to take us to that level! #WooPigSooie

— John Daly (@PGA_JohnDaly)

Daly and Gruden, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach and current ESPN commentator, go way back; Gruden once caddied for Daly at the PODS Championship in 2008. That, as Golf Talk Central notes, was the tournament that got Daly dropped by teacher Butch Harmon. Daly had apparently partied a bit too hard in a hospitality tent.

You know, as generous

Guan Tian-lang. (Getty Images)Another year, another mighty-mite golfer making his or her professional debut. You know the drill: You think about what you were doing at the age of the youngster, you look at what was going on in the world when the kid was born, you feel depressed. Ready? Here we go!

Guan Tian-lang, age 13, made his professional debut this week at the Volvo China Open. (Biggest cultural touchstones when he was born: "Saving Private Ryan," Britney Spears, Monica Lewinsky.) Sure, he didn't exactly torch the field, shooting a 77 to settle into a tie for 150th place, 12 strokes behind the leader, but hey: 13 years old.

Guan is from China, and since they've probably never heard of Todd Marinovich or Jennifer Capriati there, there's apparently not much concern about burning the lad out before he's 15. As Oliver Brown oh-so-eloquently writes in The Telegraph:

At first glance, Guan's inclusion in this week's 156-man field looks like an example of at best gimmickry and at worst outright gerrymandering: a ploy

Sean Foley sizes up Tiger's putting. (Getty Images)-Follow Jay Busbee on Twitter at @jaybusbee.-

Tiger Woods is back! Tiger Woods is finished! Tiger Woods rules! Tiger Woods sucks!

You know the drill. If you've spent even three minutes around the world of golf in the last, oh, 15 years, you've gotten a full-on dose of Tiger Woods info, news and opinion. And while said dose was mostly positive prior to The Hydrant Incident, it's been markedly less so since then. And Woods' current swing coach, Sean Foley, has had enough.

"Tiger is a wonderful person, and he is a good dude, and he lives a complex life," Foley said while talking to Sirius/XM's PGA Tour channel. "I think things have got to slow down, it has got to stop, the daily referendums and the criticism."

Foley threw the blame on that handy devil, the media: "I realize it is 2012, and we have dotcoms, and you have to write five articles a day, and you run out of things to write about [um...guilty as charged -JB], but we should be in a position where we are trying to help and

Bubba Watson and Justin Bieber / Bubba's Twitter account

Bubba Watson is one interesting dude. You'd think after winning the Masters he'd want to field a couple calls from family and childhood friends to discuss his playoff victory, but as Watson told an E! reporter during Tim Tebow's charity golf tournament, the only person he talked to on the phone on Sunday following his big win was pop star Justin Bieber.

"Justin Bieber is the only person I talked to on the phone that night after I won," Watson said. "He called me and I talked to him on the phone and he and Selena were congratulating me, and it was a big honor that they would both call me and talk to me."

This has to be a joke, right? Bubba has a history of playing around and having a good time, so you have to wonder if his tongue was planted firmly in his cheek when he made that statement.

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Biebs and Bubba are good friends, so the two chatting on the phone isn't that crazy. But the idea that he was the only call the new Masters champ took, well that's just ... interesting. Yeah, interesting.

Kevin Na and his chainsaw / PGATourRevenge is usually a dish best served cold, but in Kevin Na's case, he prefers serving it up with a red-hot chainsaw.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you most likely witnessed the video of Na coming unraveled and carding a 16 on the par-4 ninth hole at last year's Valero Texas Open.

After knocking his first two shots into the trees on the right side of the fairway, Na proceeded to spend the better part of a day hacking his ball around in the woods on his way to the highest single-hole score in tour history. It was a cringe-worthy moment for those watching at home, but Na seemed to take things in stride.

He was caught walking off the hole with a smile on his face, counting the strokes out loud as he strolled to the 10th tee. Despite being a part of one of the worst moments in golf, Na certainly deserves credit for making light of a particularly awful moment.

Since the 16, Na's gone on to capture his first PGA Tour victory and comes into this week's Valero Texas Open as one of the favorites, so his luck has certainly changed. But that didn't stop him from exacting some revenge on the hole that caused him so much trouble last year.

Na, who's hosting "Inside the PGA Tour" this week, was given a chance to take a chainsaw -- "Craig Stadler style" -- to some of the branches that led to the sky-high score. Even though the brush clearing won't erase Na's history on the hole, he's at least giving others a chance to avoid replicating his feat. What a nice guy.

The Louis Oosthuizen action figure, now with removable trophy! (Getty Images)Statistics can be massaged in wonderful ways, and here's a good one: in the last 14 majors, dating back to the 2008 PGA Championship, we've had 14 different winners. And 11 of those are first-timers. (Trivia: the repeat winners are Padraig Harrington, Angel Cabrera and Phil Mickelson.)

What does that sample size, which is getting large enough to be statistically valid, suggest? Well, first off, there's more parity in the game now than ever before. Second, it appears to be a lot tougher to win that second major than the first. And third, well ... you-know-who has been out of the mix for almost all of this.

One of the quirks of the recent blast of one-and-done major winners is how quickly many of them vanish from the scene as soon as they win. Well, not from the scene per se, but from highly competitive golf. Take a look at 2009 in particular: Cabrera, Lucas Glover, Stewart Cink and Y.E. Yang have had trouble sustaining success since their majors.

In 2010, Louis Oosthuizen won the

TPC San Antonio / Getty ImagesIt's tournament time! TPC San Antonio will be the site of this week's PGA Tour event, as the Valero Texas Open takes center stage. Here's a tournament primer to get you prepared for the week.

The course: Ranked as the seventh-most difficult course on the PGA Tour last season (+1.655 shots over par), Greg Norman's Oaks Course layout at TPC San Antonio has been hosting the Valero Texas Open since 2010, the same year the course opened for resort play. As you'd expect with courses in the Lonestar State, the wind plays a major factor on the 7,552-yard, par-72 layout. The course plays through the rolling Texas Hill Country with Oak trees lining a majority of the holes. Kevin Na's 16 was a prime example of why it's so important to keep the ball in the fairway.

The par-4 ninth hole is a hole to keep an eye on this week. It played as the 19th most difficult hole on tour last season (+0.351 shots over par), and at 474 yards, it's the only one on the course that doesn't have a bunker. Despite the lack of hazards, the green has sharp falloffs on all sides that could make it almost impossible to save par.

The schedule: The tournament runs Thursday-Sunday. It'll be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday, and on CBS from 3 to 6 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday.

The field: Even though it's one of the toughest tests on the PGA Tour, the Valero Texas Open is lacking star power this week. The field doesn't include a single player from the top 10, and only two from the top 30 (Matt Kuchar and K.J. Choi). Johnson Wagner, Harris English, Brendan Steele (the defending champion), Kevin Na, and top-ranked amateur Jordan Spieth are some of the other notable names at TPC San Antonio.