TMZ had some real sports-related gems over the last two days. Let’s play around in the muck for a second, shall we? First, there’s the story of Phil Mickelson‘s quest to track down an internet commenter who said some particularly nasty things about him.

Rory McIlroy’s ex-girlfriend is getting her revenge with a “Golf Pros and Tennis Hoes” themed party, as part of an Irish TV show. Rory? Not happy

Tiger Woods’ old caddie Steve Williams, was dumped by Tiger over the summer. Williams wasn’t happy about it, and made that pretty clear. Well, he still is – way, way more clear than he should be.

On Sunday, an apparently-crazy man threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods. We heard about it, thought, “That’s extremely odd,” and figured that would be the end of it, and certainly never expected to get more word on the thrower’s intentions. Well, we were wrong.

In the past two years, Tiger Woods has gone through hell. He’s been the subject of a very public and very sordid sex scandal (or scandals, depending on how specific you want to be), has been injured numerous times, and has played the worst golf of his life.

Emotionally, physically, and professionally, he has hit the bottom. But on Sunday, when a man walked onto the seventh green at CordeValle and tried to hit him with a hot dog, we may have seen the weirdest moment of the Tiger Woods saga to date.

On Friday, Scottish golfer Elliot Saltman aced the par-3 third at the Madrid Masters. His prize for this impressive feat?

Ham. 238 pounds of it.

Golf is a difficult game, a frustrating game, but also a leisurely game. It takes hours to play a full round. Courses are perfectly-kept expanses of greenery. Even the “hazards” consist of patches of sand and water…i.e. what you’d find at the beach. When those are your hazards, the game you’re playing isn’t very hazardous…well, not usually.

The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is coming up, which – to us, at least – seems hard to believe. On the one hand, wow, 10 years – could it possibly have been that long? On the other hand, thinking of all that’s transpired since, wow, I guess it was that long ago. Certainly much that’s happened as a direct or indirect result of 9/11, to say nothing of the event itself, hasn’t been good, whereas one related event sparked a national celebration. But there’s no denying it was one of the most momentous events of this generation, and the anniversary each year is a time to reflect, grieve, come together, express hope, and just take some time out to remember.

Rachel Uchitel, perhaps the most prominent of Tiger Woods’ former mistresses – for her, it seems, it would be no different. Uchitel has an especially strong connection to 9/11 – her fiancé at the time, James Andrew O’Grady, was killed that day. But in reflecting on the day herself, she said some things that…well, we hope they didn’t sound like they read.

High school senior Andrew Vold thought he’d won $5,000 when he landed a hole-in-one at a charity event in Ham Lake, Minnesota. Instead, he lost his high school eligibility — and now the sponsor of the contest is refusing to pay up.

Back when Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniacki were first known to be an item, we said how the idea of the cute female tennis star hooking up with the cute guy golf star reminded us of something you might see at “a boarding school in New Hampshire.” Well, now that we’ve seen the two kiss in front of Yale’s football team in New Haven, Conn. after Wozniacki won a spot in the New Haven Open’s final (she won it today) – with Rory sporting a Yale jersey, no less – we’ve come reasonably close to that scenario. (Photo via the New Haven Open, Steve Blazo Photography)