Hopefully those 2013 budget requests at Golf Channel aren’t set in stone. The studio is down a simulator.

Blame Jamie Sadlowski, the two-time world long-drive champion who put a driving "contest" against Morning Drive host Gary Williams to a quick end with one swing. Or maybe blame the guy who didn't replace the simulator's mesh with something a little more industrial-strength.

Anyway, the replacement cost could run upwards of $60,000. Or maybe there's a simulator junkyard where they could just swap out the screen. For your entertainment...

 

Jeff Shain covers golf for the Orlando Sentinel and Tribune Newspapers. Follow him on Twitter at @JeffShain, or reach him via email at jshain@tribune.com.