So, where is the love? Not one major news outlet in the Upcountry featured the Heritage this weekend. Anybody who knows about sports in South Carolina knows that this wonderful tournament, with arguably the toughest course in the world - called "the monster"- is dissed in ever-more inventive ways every year.

            It used to be the premiere play. It was right after the Masters. If a player had screwed up, there, they could get back in good graces by beating a harder course and within a week. Everybody who had access in media was there and reporting. They used to have so much money backing them that they didn't need a sponsor. It was South Carolina's Big Deal.

            It is not so, today.

            No Tiger. No DiMarco. Even with Jay Haas, the Greenville Great, in the run at the Monster for a while, there was nothing on radio or TV on Saturday (except the local affiliate that nobody watches) and Sunday, the winner was an afterthought. And the Upcountry paper? page 8C.

            And it was another two-man horse race down to the finish! What does it take to get our own media to cover our own events?

            Is it some kind of reverse snobbery? The Upcountry snubbing the Lowcountry? There IS more money in the Upstate - a long-known fact. we know there is no love lost between Greenville and Columbia. The power in the senate is in the Lowcountry. The power in the House is in the Upcountry. And both let Columbia play.

            It's not that there was that much going on. Real basketball is over. There were two big intersquad games, but the Heritage could have been reported second. And everybody ignored the Family Circle Tennis thing near Charleston - it WAS only tennis, after all. the best double A baseball is played at Clemson and Carolina and they were covered well, but the Heritage could have been third.

            So, where is the love? dunno, mate. But we should all be trying to find a way to make the Heritage bigger and better, rather than ignoring it, for whatever the reason.