Sergio Garcia’s sandbox temper tantrum, Rickie Fowler’s wild win, and Johnny Miller’s tearful goodbye

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we wish Johnny Miller got to spend one more day in the booth. Can you imagine how much fun he would have had calling that Sunday chokefest at TPC Scottsdale? Talk about the perfect retirement gift. Johnny would certainly have gotten a lot more enjoyment out of that than he will from this scooter:
FacebookPinterestAnyway, even without golf's most famous talking head, there's as much as ever to talk about. Let's (chunk-and-) run through it all.
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Rickie Fowler: First off, congrats to Rickie on (finally) picking up PGA Tour title No. 5, which will move the goalposts on all those “so-and-so has as many wins in the past blank weeks as Fowler does in his career” tweets. It’s also his first victory since getting engaged:
FacebookPinterestBen JaredHowever, there’s limping home and then there’s breaking your own legs and limping home, which is what Fowler did with a series of awful shots, decisions, and one of the mos..

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Tour pro Jonathan Byrd’s absentmindedness winds up getting him a spot in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesJonathan Byrd lives in limboville on the PGA Tour. The 41-year-old former All-American at Clemson no longer has full status, having finished No. 159 on last season’s FedEx Cup points list. But as a five-time tour winner he can still get into several events as a past champion. In the meantime, he plays in Web.com Tour events hoping to stay sharp and ultimately find a way to get back on the PGA Tour full time.
Play in the Web.com Tour’s Panama Championship was what Byrd expected to be doing this week. Until, that is, he realized while en route to the Jacksonville Airport to take his flight down to Central America that he’d broken the No. 1 rule of international travel: He’d forgotten his passport.
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Upset with himself, he turned around and started driving back to his home in South Carolina unsure what to do next. While on the road, though, Byrd learned that his status on the alternate list for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-..

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