If you’ve traveled the friendly skies before with golf clubs, you probably have a story. We all do. Our golf bags have been ripped, shafts broken and golf shoes smushed. But I’m pretty we can all bow out to Lee Janzen in the golf club damage department at this point.

Janzen was traveling to the Monday qualifier for this week’s Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open when his golf bag got pummeled, and had pictures to prove it, thanks to the fine folks at GolfWRX.

The above picture is just one of the many that the GolfWRX has from his ordeal with the airlines, but kudos to Callaway, who shipped him an emergency set that helped him Monday qualify anyway with a 66.

The best part about this whole thing? The airlines told Janzen that he could rent a set of clubs if he needed, something every two-time U.S. Open winner wants to hear.

You can check out more photos of the damage over at GolfWRX, but for now, simply remember, when your golf clubs go airborne, it’s never a good thing.

If you’ve traveled the friendly skies before with golf clubs, you probably have a story. We all do. Our golf bags have been ripped, shafts broken and golf shoes smushed. But I’m pretty we can all bow out to Lee Janzen in the golf club damage department at this point.

Janzen was traveling to the Monday qualifier for this week’s Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open when his golf bag got pummeled, and had pictures to prove it, thanks to the fine folks at GolfWRX.

The above picture is just one of the many that the GolfWRX has from his ordeal with the airlines, but kudos to Callaway, who shipped him an emergency set that helped him Monday qualify anyway with a 66.

The best part about this whole thing? The airlines told Janzen that he could rent a set of clubs if he needed, something every two-time U.S. Open winner wants to hear.

You can check out more photos of the damage over at GolfWRX, but for now, simply remember, when your golf clubs go airborne, it’s never a good thing.

The President Cup conference call on Tuesday, to announce the two wild card selections for the U.S. team — Greg Norman selected Aaron Baddeley and Robert Allenby (two Aussies) for the International team — seemed like a mere formality as far as most were concerned. Unlike years past where the final two picks were shrouded in secrecy, almost everyone knew who Fred Couples would be selecting.

So when Couples hopped on the call and announced Bill Haas and Tiger Woods would be getting the remaining two spots, most weren’t the least bit surprised. Haas was an automatic pick, following his victory at the Tour Championship.

While Tiger Woods … well, he hasn’t done anything of late, but Fred Couples told him months ago that regardless of his poor play, he was a lock for the team. That meant Haas’ spot was a free-for-all between a handful of extremely deserving players.

If we were playing a game of which one doesn’t belong with the two U.S. picks, it’d be easy to say Woods is the least deserving selection. His last tour win came in 2009, and his form over his last three tournaments (WD, T-37, MC) has been abysmal.

I understand Couples’ reasoning behind picking Woods — having a Presidents Cup without the most talked-about player in the game seems silly — but this isn’t a popularity contest. Freddie doesn’t get bonus points for picking a guy that “used” to be the best player in the sport.

Until Woods proves me wrong, I’ll continue to believe his inclusion on the team was a mistake. Like all sports, golf is a “what have you done for me lately” sport And frankly, Woods has done nothing lately to warrant his selection.

Keegan Bradley may not have the name recognition of a Woods, or the recent success of a Bill Haas, but he did win a major championship and regular season tour event this year. He’s had success this season — not in 2009. There’s a big difference.

Say all you want about Tiger having 14 majors, being the greatest player of our generation, and having experience in the event. The guy’s a shell of his former self, and until he shows up and puts together four quality rounds, I’ll continue to think the team would have been better off with a bright-eyed rookie.

When you attend Hank Haney’s school, how much attention are you owed by Hank Haney himself? That’s the question in a lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman and her son against Haney.

The facts of the case, as noted in Golfweek: Maureen Fitzgerald and her son Matthew Teesdale are charging Haney with consumer fraud in the suit filed in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.

Fraud? What could he have done? This, according to the suit: Haney allegedly gave Teesdale a total of only seven minutes of personal instruction at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head Island, S.C. This, after Teesdale paid $30,000 plus fees to enroll in the camp. They’re seeking $150,000 in damages and a trial by jury.

Really, the issue here isn’t that Haney spent seven minutes with the kid, but how much time students are promised in the first place. You don’t go to, say, Wendy’s and expect that Wendy herself is going to serve you a hamburger; similarly, it may be that Haney functions more as headmaster than hands-on teacher. But if the academy promises hours of one-on-one time with the former instructor for Tiger Woods, well … then things get a bit more problematic.

Haney, meanwhile, declined comment. And not to take anything away from his academy, but if you’re not on a professional path, save yourself thirty grand and just read his Twitter feed. Dude gives out some fine instruction there.

Welcome to Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Shane Bacon take a day’s topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by writing jay.busbee@yahoo.com, or hit us on Twitter at @jaybusbee and @shanebacon. Today, we talk about the Solheim Cup, and what we would have done if we had been in the position of the Europeans that had to take a full point when Cristie Kerr had to withdraw because of injury.

Bacon: Mr. Busbee, while you were enjoying the exciting FedEx Cup playoffs, a strange thing happen; women’s golf became the story of the weekend. But what’s a golf tournament without some controversy. On Sunday, Cristie Kerr had to concede her match before It started due to a wrist injury, giving the Euros a full point, but some think that shouldn’t have been the case. Without Kerr playing a single hole of her match, is halving the match appropriate, or is that just the pains of competition?

Busbee: Women’s golf? I thought Tiger’s new caddy was the story of the weekend! WHAT KIND OF A WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN? Anyway, yeah, the Solheim was outstanding, and it provided far more riveting viewing in the media center than shots of whiteboards calculating FedEx Cup points. Absolutely what women’s golf needed, in so many ways.

Now, to your point: this is one of those ugly loophole things where the rules don’t give any leeway. There’s no provision for anything less than a one-point award. And I’m going to venture a potentially unpopular thought: there shouldn’t be. Yes, it’s kind of a BS way to handle an unfortunate situation, but isn’t that part of the risk of competition in any sport? The Patriots don’t get the right to count their touchdowns double if Tom Brady’s injury replacement scores them; the Yankees don’t get two free runs a game if Derek Jeter is out with injury (though I’m sure both have been proposed by ESPN). There is indeed a layer of honor in golf, and perhaps a half-point tally for injury withdrawal is a solution, but just like you don’t want to lose on a cheap play, most people wouldn’t want to win on one either. And now you’re away, sir.

Bacon: I have to agree with you. It sucks to win when your opponent misses a two-footer, but, well, no it doesn’t. Winning is winning, and in sports, you take it anyway you can.

But, I have to ask, does winning like that take anything away from the Euros? With a split in that match, the final match would have had to finish, and things would have been that much closer.

Busbee: It would take something away from the Euros if there’d been anything within their control–if, say, a European fan had interfered with a shot or a European player had complained to officials or something like that. In this case, no–it’s the breaks of the game, so to speak. It’s a testament to golf that there aren’t more cheating allegations, underhanded dealings and so forth that wreck the game, as you have in other sports. I mean, they’re there, but not so much that they change the entire complexion of the sport.

Bacon: I think no matter what, we can all agree that the fact that we’re seriously debating about women’s golf is a very good thing for the sport, and for us. Now, back to that Tiger-caddie business …