She Could Shoot Her Age ... on One Hole

Competitive golfers are getting younger every year, but this is stretching the point. During the recent New Zealand women’s national amateur championship, a 7-year-old was in a field that also included players 10, 11, 13 and 14.

The youngest, Lydia Ko, was seen skipping down the fairways as she finished just over par off her 14 handicap.

“In the 1980s, we all took time off work to compete, now most of the field takes time off school,” Phil Aickin of New Zealand Golf told the New Zealand Herald.

Yeah, kindergarten.

Trivia time: After the U.S. and Canada, which nation airs the most NBA programming?

Not the Good Book: Columnist Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle urged readers to burn their copies of “Juiced” after Jose Canseco, who defended the use of steroids in the book, changed his mind at last week’s congressional hearing.

Ostler wrote, “Canseco repudiating his book is like God saying, ‘You know those Ten Commandments? Look, I wrote that stuff a long time ago, and the publisher delayed distribution of the stone tablets. I’ve changed my mind. I mean, if your neighbor’s wife is really hot, covet away.’ ”

Up, up and a Way: Last summer at the X Games, skateboarder Danny Way introduced the mega ramp, on which he won the gold medal by soaring over a 70-foot gap to another downhill ramp leading to a quarterpipe incline, from which he caught more big air.

Now the Encinitas resident is taking his act east. Way will attempt to jump across the Great Wall of China in late May, hoping also to set world records for distance, height out of the quarterpipe and speed on a skateboard.

After that? Way reportedly has his eye on the Grand Canyon. Shades of Evel Knievel!

Chef K? Pat Summitt, women’s basketball coach at Tennessee, kicks off the NCAA tournament each year with a barbecue for just about anyone who happens by. Wayne Drehs of ESPN.com tried to imagine anyone in the men’s game doing likewise.

“Like Roy Williams opening up the kitchen at 8 a.m. on Selection Sunday to grill 60 steaks, 50 chicken breasts and 15 slabs of salmon? Like Mike Krzyzewski thumbing through an old sorority recipe for jalapeno corn that his team has begged for? Like Bob Knight standing in his kitchen, making sure his two batches of steamed broccoli -- one for his son, who likes it especially hard, and one for his players, who like it soft -- are cooked to perfection?”

Drehs tried, but it was unimaginable.

Looking back: On this day last year there was such a thing as the NHL season, and the Kings’ Luc Robitaille became the highest-scoring left wing in league history, with an assist in a 2-1 loss to Edmonton for his 1,370th point.

Trivia answer: Tunisia at 9,173 hours annually, according to Playboy magazine, which also points out that there are no Tunisian players in the NBA.

And finally: Effective April 1, a round at Pebble Beach will cost $425. That works out to nearly $24 a hole or, if you shoot, say, an 85, exactly $5 a stroke.

Doesn’t leave much for a hot dog.