WEB ENVY: GOLF ORGANIZATIONS SEEK BLOCK OF REAL-TIME SCORES

          The PGA Tour and Augusta National recently "tried to
     delay" two newspapers, the Florida Times-Union and the
     Augusta Chronicle, from posting live golf scores on their
     Web sites for 30 minutes, according to GOLF WORLD.  The
     organizations, believing "because they run the Players
     Championship and Masters, respectively, they also have part
     ownership of the news," felt the scores should be delayed in
     order to "not only" protect their respective Web sites, but
     "their licensees and partners (IBM, NBC, CBS, CBS-Radio),
     too."  But the newspapers called a delay "an infringement of
     their First Amendment rights," and the Times-Union 
     "threatened to ignore coverage" of this year's FL PGA Tour
     events.  The PGA Tour "was the first to give in," citing two
     reasons: Not being able to prevent anyone from posting
     scores immediately after they appear on PGATOUR.com and a
     similar situation in which Motorola won a case against the
     NBA involving scoring pagers (GOLF WORLD, 4/16 issue).