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• Golf Writers and Commentators: Heady Stuff

  All smugness aside, golf writers and broadcasters often speak with a tiny edge of “know-it-allism,” and they’re usually not entirely out of bounds in doing it. After all, it isn’t the writers, but the game that just insists on that little twist of pomp, especially when the subject gets anywhere near the British Isles. Some …

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• Peggy Kirk Bell: LPGA Pioneer

  As I study the famous names of golf history, I run across the name of Peggy Kirk Bell wherever I turn. During the past few months, it got to the point where I couldn’t turn the page without seeing the name of Peggy Kirk Bell. Always on the way to investigate something or someone else, …

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• Tiger Tiger Burning Bright – Again?

  Whatever else we were supposed to talk about today, forget it. Tiger Woods caught fire and won a golf tournament this past weekend, his first in 749 days, a little over two years. Along with famous questions such as “Where were you when we landed on the moon?” one could ask, “How much have I paid …

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• Canada’s Pacific Northwest: Golfing the Top Part

  To the average American, the Pacific Northwest means Oregon, Washington, and a few lovely square miles of upper Idaho and Montana. Everything above that is Canada, a beautiful country to be sure, but not the Pacific Northwest – it’s Canada. To a British Columbian or Albertan, however, Oregon, Washington and those extra square miles (beautiful  …

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• The Family Behind the Game

  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that accomplished people are more often than not associated with other accomplished individuals in their careers and personal lives. Those who develop special talents from childhood often emerge from proactive, on-the-ball families, and are pushed, for good or ill, by talented parents or siblings. Some have family …

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• Remembering Patty Berg

  Somewhere in the late fifties, I received a bag of golf clubs from my aunt, who had moved on to more modern technology. There were clubs from every make, style and century – mashies and niblicks, brassies and spoons – woods with enough loft to replace a sand wedge and gnarled old putters made by …

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• Golf Equipment

  Make this year the time you improve your golf game by buying a new set of golf clubs. With today’s technology if you have not purchased golf clubs in the last 5 years, it is time for you to dramatically improve your game with a new set of clubs. If you are like me you …

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• Play the Correct Equipment

  Golf manufacturers consistently release so many new clubs to the market, it can be difficult to determine which equipment will be a match for your swing. It’s unlikely you will achieve a good fit by simply picking a club off the rack; more likely, finding the perfect golf clubs will be a trial-and-error process. Select …

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• Learn Properly from the Beginning

  Golf is a game that can be enjoyed for a lifetime. Some enjoy the competition or being outside and getting exercise. Others play for the pure social aspect of being around business partners, friends or family. Golf can be enjoyed by anyone. But the game takes an enormous amount of skill to accurately hit a …

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• Amy Alcott: The most interesting golfer in the world

  Amy Alcott fast facts Birthdate: February 22, 1956Birthplace: Kansas City, MissouriResidence: Santa Monica, CaliforniaHeight: 5-6Road to the LPGA: Tied for 12th at 1975 LPGA Qualifying SchoolLPGA wins: 29Major wins: 5Best finish at a Major: 1st (1979 Peter Jackson Classic, 1980 U.S. Open, 1983, 1988, 1991 Nabisco Dinah Shore)Career LPGA earnings: $3,419,406 (51st all-time)Legends Tour wins: …

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