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• Sybase Matches: Day I

  With such a field, spectacular golf was a given at the farm in New Jersey today, and we are reminded of how difficult it is to predict the outcomes of tournaments and matches. Given the nature of the game, upsets were unavoidable, for either the vicarious fan or gambler. If one looks at it from …

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• Francis Quimet: Father of Amateur Golf

  Ask a hundred people to identify America’s first golf hero, and most will miss it. Ask who staged one of the greatest golf upsets in history (the greatest at that time), and most won’t remember it. Frances DeSales Quimet of Brookline, Massachusetts, became the first American to be elected captain of the Royal and Ancient …

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• Lewis, Fowler and Phatlum

  Lewis, Fowler and Phatlum: Youth Rules Golf This Week One should be careful throwing around the word youth these days, because it’s including younger and younger players all the time. I’m going to give Stacy Lewis the benefit of the doubt, even though she’s approaching her late twenties. Considering what she went through to get …

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• Nancy Lopez Wins Byron Nelson Prize

  Nancy Lopez Wins Byron Nelson Prize There are a lot of generous folks from the sports worlds. Directed to the charities of their choice, individual players donate huge sums annually, and their foundations sustain a steady stream of assistance for those who often wouldn’t get it from anywhere else. Golf, however, stands out as a …

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• The Big Three: Nicklaus, Palmer, Player-One More Time

  Nicklaus, Palmer, Player For a younger generation of golf lovers, to describe the way that the golfing public viewed the big three players of the fifties through eighties might require some thought. Try this one – if the Beatles were professional level golfers, they might have been on the magnitude of the “Big Three.” The …

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• Girl’s Golf in North America

  The LPGA and Golf Canada Watch out, Lexi. You’re getting on, and there’s a wave of greats coming in behind you. Here’s where they’re coming from, as if you didn’t know. In the U.S., the LPGA has truly done what it set out to do, “bringing women’s golf under one umbrella.” The developmental tour, ages …

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• Winners, Losers and Danger: The Week in Golf

  Stacy Lewis, Jason Duffer, Bubba Watson, Se Ri Park, What an interesting week it was in the world of golf, from a weekender’s unexpected round to disturbing injuries and breakthrough wins for two on the men’s and women’s tours. Both events on the LPGA and PGA tours were cliffhangers this week, and it was difficult …

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• Jason Dufner Goes for It: No More Runner-Up?

  Jason Dufner A Winner! The old adage claims that “no one remembers the guy who finished second.” It’s a harsh motto, and it’s very often true, but not always. In team sports, it’s worse in a sense. People really can’t remember who finished second. Finish number two in the Tchaikovsky International, and you’ve probably got …

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• Small School Golf: Women’s Div. II, III, NAIA

  Small School Golf Review We may be under the impression that we know where all the tour members come from, and which schools boast the national power programs in the U.S. and Canada. Certainly, Division I sports holds considerable advantages over the others, enjoying a huge talent draw. The requirements of a Division I athletic …

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• University of Oregon Golf: Or Would You Rather Be a Duck?

  You can pretty much name the sport. If you’re going to visit Texas, there’ll be somebody who knows how to play it, and probably from pretty well to stellar. That includes golf. Texas has contributed players like Ben Crenshaw, Ben Hogan, Tom Kite, Justin Leonard, Byron Nelson, Lee Trevino and Babe Didrikson to the pro …

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