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"Stories of interest you might have missed\u2026\n\u201CIt was well past dusk, with the faintest remaining glow from the Florida sunset barely illuminating the grounds\u2026The oldest guy in the World Golf Championship field was the only one working overtime\u2026[Phil] Mickelson is working like a kid trying to beat the clock as his favorite major inches closer,\u201D Scott Michaux of the Augusta Chronicle writes. \u201C\u2018I\u2019m excited to play,\u2019 Mickelson said. \u2018I\u2019m enjoying playing. I\u2019m loving playing right now. I\u2019m playing really, really well.\u2019  You can sense Mickelson\u2019s enthusiasm building as the Masters Tournament approaches.\u201D\n\n\n\nThe fact that no one on the PGA Tour volunteered to travel to Brazil to play an 18-hole test event on the new Olympic course this week might indicate \u201Cthis whole golf in the Olympics thing was simply a bad idea to begin with,\u201D the Associated Press\u2019 Tim Dahlberg writes.\nFacebookPinterestEngland\u2019s Paul Casey is forgoing his European Tour membership, and the opportunity to play for the European Ryder Cup team, to play full-time on the PGA Tour. \u201C[B]ut playing for Team GB at the Olympics is a completely different matter,\u201D Derek Lawrenson of the Daily Mail writes. \u201C\u2018\u2018I\u2019m all in for trying to get to Rio,\u2019 said Casey, who stands behind Justin Rose and Danny Willett in the rankings, with two certain of making it. \u2018I would love to be part of that mix.\u2019\u201D\n\nWATCH: GOLF DIGEST VIDEOS\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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