HONOLULU, Hawaii - The PGA Tour already has banned the caddie races on the infamous par-3 16th hole at the Phoenix Open. Next on the taboo list: tossing items to fans in the grandstands at golfs rowdiest hole.A notice was posted in the locker room Tuesday at Waialae that said, At this years Waste Management Phoenix open, for fan safety reasons, players and caddies are prohibited from throwing, kicking or otherwise propelling items into the crowd on the 16th hole.Someone wrote on the top of the notice, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?Um, no.Players wont be able to claim ignorance. Andy Pazder, the tours chief of operations, said the notice would be posted at the TPC Scottsdale, in the tent on the tee boxes before a player starts his round and even on the electronic scoreboard on the 16 hole.How it gets enforced is another matter. Pazder made a small clarification by using the word indiscriminately throwing objects. In recent years, Rickie Fowler has tossed hats into the grandstand and Bubba Watson is becoming famous for the swag he throws into the bleachers. What first got the tours attention was Padraig Harrington kicking a football into the stands. Thats now forbidden.Pazder said a direct handoff is fine.If a player is going by handing them out or flipping them to someone in the first row, thats fine, he said. But not going by throwing things like a Frisbee.At issue was safety, much like how the NFL bans players from heaving a football into the stands after a touchdown.A fan in public seating in a mad scramble to get a hat is going to hurt himself, or land on top of another person, he said. I would say to the players, Think about the liability.Pazder said he has talked to Watson, among other players, and didnt receive too much pushback. But as the handwritten addition to the notice indicated, hes aware the tour will get criticized as the No Fun Police.As if the Phoenix Open isnt rowdy enough, Tiger Woods is playing the tournament Jan. 29-Feb. 1 for the first time since 2001.___STADLER GOES LEFTY: Kevin Stadler has been using a long putter for the last 16 years, and that will have to change next year with the new rule that outlaws an anchored stroke used for the long putters.He already has figured out. Stadler is going lefty.Just going backward with a little short one, Stadler said.He has been using a conventional left-handed putter, though not in competition, because it feels the most comfortable to him. For a right-handed player, going to the other side is similar to a cross-handed grip.I dont even know how to grip a putter conventionally, Stadler said. Ive putted my whole life as a kid cross-handed, and when I was a really little kid, I played left-handed for a little bit. It feels comfortable. Thats probably what Im going to do.___GWAA AWARDS: All the times he failed to win might be one reason Jim Furyk was a winner — at least with the media.He was voted to receive the ASAP Sports/Jim Murray Award by the Golf Writers Association of America for his co-operation with the media. There certainly has been plenty of chances this year as Furyk has four runner-up finishes and became the first player with $6 million in worldwide earnings without winning. It was a tough year, though Furyk never ducked reporters. At one event, given a chance to go out a side door, Furyk went out to speak to the media after losing a share of the 54-hole lead.Ive never looked at it as a tough or difficult, Furyk said. Ive always thought that we both have jobs to do. I feel I have a responsibility to help portray (to readers) what they are seeing and in order to do that, I can tell the media what Im thinking.In other awards, the GWAA voted to give Jarrod Lyle the Ben Hogan Award for remaining active in the game despite a physical ailment or illness. Lyle battled leukemia as a teenager, won twice on the Web.com Tour to get his PGA Tour card, and then had a recurrence that kept him out of golf for some 18 months before he returned.To be awarded the Ben Hogan Award is a huge honour, Lyle said. To be placed among some of the games greatest is something I will cherish forever.The William D. Richardson Award went to Doc Giffin for contributions to golf.Giffin was a former press secretary for the PGA Tour when Arnold Palmer asked him to be his travelling secretary. This year, Giffin and Palmer celebrate 49 years working in that capacity. Giffin was the man behind the scenes of one of golfs most endearing figures. In the era before cellphones, Giffin agreed to stay at the home office in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to write, organize fan mail and autograph requests and keep up with demands on Palmer that came from all corners of the world.They will be honoured April 8 in Augusta, Georgia, at the GWAAs annual awards dinner.___FOUR-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP: The Philadelphia Cricket Club will host the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship in 2020, the first time the club has hosted a USGA championship since Alex Smith won the U.S. Open in 1910.The club has three courses. St. Martins hosted the U.S. Open in 1907 and 1910, though it now is a nine-hole course. The Wissahickon Course, designed by A.W. Tillinghast and opened in 1922, will have stroke-play qualifying and the match play portion of the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. It was restored last year by Keith Foster. The other is the Militia Hill Course, which opened in 2002 and will be used only for stroke-play qualifying.The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball makes its debut this year at Olympic Club in San Francisco. The next two events are scheduled for Winged Foot (2016) and Pinehurst (2017).___DIVOTS: The Web.com Tour announced a 25-tournament schedule for 2015 that begins the last week in January in Panama and wraps up the first weekend in October with the last for the Web.com Tour Finals at the TPC Sawgrass (Valley Course) at PGA Tour headquarters. ... The USGA and Ross Greenburg Productions are behind a one-hour documentary called, Nicklaus: The Making of a Champion, which Fox will show at noon EST on Sunday before the NFC championship game. This is the first of a 12-year deal between Fox and the USGA. ... Bubba Watson will auction his 1939 Cadillac LaSalle C-Hawk Custom Roadster this week in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction. 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Since LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh teamed up for the "Big 3" era with the Miami Heat, there had been some absolute truths when it came to their home playoff games. When they shot at least 48 per cent, they were 18-0. When they made at least 10 shots from 3-point range, they were 12-0. And in this post-season, they were a perfect 8-0 in their building. No more. On any count. No Miami miracle this time, either. A blowout got interesting for a few minutes, but in the end, it wound up as a blowout -- and the road to a third straight NBA championship for the Heat got considerably tougher. Down by a staggering 25 points at one point in the first half, the Heat whittled their way within single digits. But they never got all that close to the San Antonio Spurs and wound up falling 111-92 in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night. The Spurs lead the series 2-1, and need only to hold serve at home to end Miamis reign as NBA champions. "What it feels like is the finals," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "And you have to deal with all the emotions there are in the finals -- frustration, anger, pain, elation, all of it, and it can swing back and forth. Its a long series. We have to be able to manage this and it starts with tomorrow, owning it. Thatll be the process we all have to go through together." James and Wade each scored 22 points, Bosh didnt miss a shot, they connected on 52 per cent of their tries from the floor, and they still got drilled. Rashard Lewis scored 14, Ray Allen had 11 and Bosh had only nine -- getting just four shots in 34 minutes. "We will get better from tonight," James said. "We hate the performance that we put on. But its 2-1. Its not 4-1. Its 2-1, and we have to make some adjustments, come in and learn from our mistakes as we always do after a loss." So far, these finals are just like the 2013 version: Spurs win Game 1. Heat win Game 2. Spurs blow Heat out in Game 3. Only this time, Miami doesnt have the luxury of potentially having a Game 7 at home. "We have to take this one oon the chin," Bosh said.dddddddddddd"We are kidding ourselves if were going to win a championship with that kind of effort, home or away." Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs with 29 points. Danny Green and Tony Parker each scored 15 for San Antonio and Tim Duncan added 14 for the Spurs. The signs of trouble for the Heat were obvious from the get-go. James had 14 points in the early going, and Miami was still down by seven. The Heat gave up 41 points in the first quarter, defence nowhere to be found. At one point in the second quarter, it was Spurs 55, Heat 30. That matched the largest deficit Miami has faced at home at any point in the Big 3 era, tied only with the 25-point lead Oklahoma City held over the Heat during this regular season. The numbers were absurd. Out of San Antonios first 21 shots, the Spurs missed two. Yes, two. They were shooting 91 per cent for the game at one point in the second quarter. They made 11 straight shots in one stretch. They had the best-shooting first half by any NBA team since ... well, them, more than three years ago against Detroit. "That will never happen again," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "I mean, thats crazy." Predictably, the Heat locker room was not the worlds happiest place at halftime, with Miami down 71-50. "We had every conversation," Allen said. "We yelled at each other. We encouraged each other. We went through a range of emotions trying to find a spark." A spark, they found. But they needed an inferno. Miami got within seven in the second half, and the 19,900 white-clad fans in the building had to be thinking of the ridiculous finals comeback last season against the Spurs. The Heat were down by five with 28.2 seconds left in Game 6, then rallied to not just save the game, but save their title hopes. "We knew they were going to make a run," Duncan said. Thats all it was, just a run. The outcome was never really in doubt. And the building was just about empty when the final buzzer sounded. "Little frustration," Wade said. "But thats the nature of the playoffs. Its not always good." ' ' '