The Blue Monster at Doral Golf Resort by Dick Wilson

The Doral Golf resort and Spa, (the venue of the Henrik Stensen Strip) won the Golf week Best Resort Courses Award 2009- but its only March? How do they know? You may wonder where the name comes from;as with many house names accross the country such as Davsheila, Lauruss or Sunick, the Dor and Al of this Miami Resort comes from Doris and Alfred Kaskel who, in 1959 converted 2,400 acres of swampland in West Miami into 6 Florida golf courses.

It is good to see that golf course architect Dick Wilson had a hand in the original design of the Blue Monster Course, which has hosted the PGA tour for over 40 years. It is 7266 yards long ad its 18th hole is in the World Top 100.

Alongside the designer pro are old golf pro favourites Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd and with Jim Maclean doing some design, but more importantly running the number 1 Golf School in the US at Doral.If you ant some more name dropping, Arthur Ashe stuck to what he knew best and was the director of tennis at the club in the 70's.

The Doral was a family run business until 1993, and is now part of the Marriot group which has turned the club into a monster resort.I suppose it is this sort of business which enables web packages including a Kids Play for Free offer (after 3pm which is fair enough) and also a free kids lesson when a parent books a lesson (which is excellent)

Henrik Stenson Wears Bjorn Borgs Pants

Henrik Stenson stripped off down to his startling white Bjorn Borg pants today in order to take a shot in the mud at the 3rd hole during the first round of the World Golf Championships-CA Championship at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami. It was suggested on the radio show that alerted me to this disturbing news, that Henrik had been working out and wanted to show off his muscles or Henrik was a bit obsessive compulsive in not wanting to get his clean clothes dirty.

Of course it is far simpler than that- Henrik is Swedish, just like his pants designer Bjorn. I wondered what part of being world tennis number 1 qualified Bjorn for his role as mens underwear designer, but all was soon made clear. The official website says the new range, called Grand Slam, is inspired by Bjorn Borgs early career in that its design is clean and simple.There is a special offer on at the moment-a Bjorn Borg head band will thrown in with the first order.Someone got paid for that idea.

In defence of Heinriks strip he said to Sky News "I felt that I would definitely save a shot by actually playing the ball. If you are saving a shot, that has to be worth taking your shirt and trousers off"