The PGA Championship is this weekend at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. And, as golf’s final major this year, I look forward to it. As I write this, Fred Funk is in the lead with -7, followed four guys at -6 (including Justin Leonard, Mark Calcavecchia, and Retief Goosen).

Here's the PGA Championship’s Leaderboard, which should remain current. As of this morning (Friday morning) Jim Furyk was in the lead, but now he’s at -3 overall. I was really hoping that he might win this one, as he’s one of the best players in the game that hasn’t won a major yet.

With any luck, I’ll be able to watch some of it this weekend.

Whew, that was a close one for Ernie Els as he won his first British Open. He had a narrow one-to-two stroke lead for most of the final round. But, in the last holes, he lost some ground to force a playoff with Australians Stuart Appleby and Steve Elkington and Thomas Levet of France.

In the end, Els held strong and avoided mistakes. Ernie Els is the new Open champion.

With one foot in the bunker and the other on the bank Els played a magnificent recovery from the downslope at the back of the bunker, running the ball within five feet of the hole.

Across the left to right slope Levet struck the putt firmly, shaving the hole as it ran seven feet past. He holed for a five leaving Els a single putt for the championship. He holed it.

If you missed any of the Open Championship, ABC is airing final-round highlights at 5:00/4:00c.

From CNN/SI, here’s the Leaderboard for the British Open. And, it’s updated throughout play, so it should always be current.

Though I don’t particularly enjoy playing golf, I do enjoy watching it. As someone that has attempted to play the game, I can really appreciate the skill and talent that the players have. And, of course, the British Open is this weekend. Or, as they like to call themselves, “The Open Championship” ;).

So, would anyone out there in blogger-land be interested in watching the final round with me? It airs on Sunday from 7:00am - 12:30pm CST. But, that's frightfully early, so I was thinking that through the magic of TiVo’s ability to start-watching-before-the-recording-is-finished, we could time-shift that to “start” at 9:00 or 10:00.

Of course, the DFWBlogs Cocktail Event is this evening, so I’ll mention this idea there as well.

Thanks to NBC, now even golf lovers that don’t have full-time sports channels can watch the early rounds of the US Open. NBC’s schedule for its US Open Coverage:

• Thursday, June 13 - 3:00 PM ET
  Golf: U.S. Open Black Course at Bethpage State Park, N.Y.: First-round coverage
• Friday, June 14 - 3:00 PM ET
  Golf: U.S. Open Black Course at Bethpage State Park, N.Y.: Second-round coverage
• Saturday, June 15 - 12:30 PM ET
  Golf: U.S. Open Black Course at Bethpage State Park, N.Y.: Third-round coverage
• Sunday, June 16 - 1:30 PM ET
  Golf: U.S. Open Black Course at Bethpage State Park, N.Y.: Final-round coverage

If you don’t want to know who wins the French Open men's finals, then read no further ;).

So, anyhow, I finished watching the men’s finals. I was rooting for Ferrero, but he was playing like Tyson for those first two sets. He showed signs of recovery in the third set, but just couldn’t get out of his funk. Costa regained his domination in the fourth set and won, deservedly.

I recorded the French Open men's final earlier today; I'm in the middle of the third set, but I haven’t watched all of it yet. So, if you know the outcome, don’t tell me ;).

Well, it looks like it's “Williams vs Williams” for the French Open women's finals. Booooring. I’ll skip that one.

But, in other tennis news, it looks like 11th-seeded Ferrero and No. 20 Costa will be playing for the men’s final on Sunday. Neither has made it to the French Open finals, so this one should be interesting. I think I’ll be rooting for Ferrero on this one.

It looks like this guy wants to try to get as many Expos and Twins players into the All-Star game as possible:

The two teams baseball wants to contract are the Expos and the Twins. If all the players from the Twins and the Expos were selected as starters this would create problems for anyone trying to get rid of such smaller market teams. I realize some of these players are not All-Star caliber, but the All Star Game is about the fans, NOT the players and owners. This is the one time of year baseball gives fans a voice.

Since I wouldn't normally care enough about the All-Star game to bother voting, I figure I’ll go along with this guy’s suggestion — let’ see what happens :).