PGA Tour lesson: no quick cuts

Golfer Alex Cejka missed the cut at the Shell Houston Open last week, and you can bet he stuck around until it was official.

The week before at New Orleans, Cejka assumed he’d missed the Saturday cut and boarded a commercial flight back to his home in Las Vegas.

T.J. Auclair of PGATour.com reports that Cejka, upon learning he had made the cut, hopped the next flight out to Houston, drove overnight six hours to New Orleans and arrived just in time for the final round. He borrowed clothes from another player and rented clubs from the pro shop because he didn’t have time to retrieve his luggage in Las Vegas, but shot one-under 71 -- his best round of the tournament.

“The next time a buddy in your foursome complains about how his game is off because of the jacked up rental clubs he’s using and asks for more strokes, tell him where to go,” Auclair wrote.

Trivia time

Who recorded the first double eagle on the 13th hole in Masters history and when?

What’s in your wallet?

The Boston Red Sox are in last place for the first time since April 10, 2005, after going 3-4 during a 16,000-mile season opening road trip that spanned three countries.

Boston split two games against the Oakland A’s in Tokyo, swept two in Oakland then lost three straight at Toronto. They play their home opener today against the Detroit Tigers.

“It’s probably the best thing for us right now,” Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis said. “A lot of us are tired. We’re ready to go home.

“All these different countries, different currencies, I’m kind of sick of it.”

Looking good

Clemson two-sport freshman phenom Kyle Parker is third on the baseball team with a .311 batting average and football Coach Tommy Bowden, who will have Parker as a quarterback in the fall, likes the way Parker looks.

Maybe a little too much.

“I’ve watched him practice and I’ve watched him play,” Bowden said in an interview with CUTigers.com.

“He’s really good looking. If I was a girl, I’d be very interested in him. He wears those tight pants. When you wear loose stuff, you can’t tell the definition of a guy’s body. In baseball, everything’s tight and you can tell he’s very well put together.”

Virtual reality

A.J. Pierzynski is among the major league leaders with a .458 batting average -- 172 points higher than his career average.

His secret? Video games, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pierzynski has been working with a vision-training game on his hand-held Nintendo DS in an attempt to improve his ability to pick up the baseball.

“It’s something we worked on in spring training,” Pierzynski told the paper. “ . . . Let the pitch dictate where the ball goes. I’m off to a good start, and hopefully I can keep it up.”

Singin’ Joe

Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier is preparing to launch a soul singing career, according to his business manager, Leslie Wolf.

He’s set to compete later this month on a CBS reality television show called “Secret Talents of the Stars.”

Frazier, who previously dabbled in music as lead singer of the group “Smokin’ Joe and the Knock Outs” will be backed by pop group Boyz II Men on the show.

“Right now, we’re developing a music career for him,” Wolf said. “It’s his biggest passion.”

Trivia answer

Jeff Maggert in 1994. Gene Sarazen had a double eagle on No. 15 in 1935.

And finally

At 13-64, the Miami Heat has the worst record in the NBA.

It is currently in the midst of a seven-game losing streak, but there are only five games left, which is music to Coach Pat Riley’s ears.

“This godforsaken season has got to be over with,” Riley said.

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peter.yoon@latimes.com