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As you might suspect, Mondays are usually hectic travel days for professional golfers. And when I'm home, warm and dry, I get a kick out of following all their various travails via social media.

Today seemed like a pretty typical Monday, judging by some of the tweets that rolled by throughout the day. Here are some examples:

Most of the attention from Sunday's play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational will go to the weather - or Tiger Woods' hopes to reclaim the No. 1 ranking or the incredible tree shot by Sergio Garcia.

Most of the golfers I know wanted to put the thought of getting swallowed up by a sinkhole out of their minds as quickly as possible after that guy in Illinois plunged into an 18-foot deep sinkhole in the middle of a fairway a few weeks ago.

With so many big college basketball games in such a short period of time these days, it's a little difficult to keep up with exactly who's beating whom.

One of the biggest upsets of the NCAA tournament so far was Friday's loss by vaunted Georgetown to upstart Florida Gulf Coast. One newspaper's proofreader clearly had his eye on the little white ball instead of the big orange one, though, as the headline above shows.

Callaway Golf is embracing the generation of distance off the tee like at no time in the company's history. The new RAZR Fit Xtreme and X Hot drivers are providing a big leap forward from previous models, and the company is actively marketing its new roster of staff players, which includes some of the PGA Tour's biggest bombers.

The latest development in Callaway's drive for distance is the HEX Chrome+ ball, which delivers high ball velocity for maximum distance at mid to high clubhead speeds, especially with the driver.