May
11
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 …
May
09
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 …
May
06
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 …
May
03
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 …
May
01
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 …
Apr
28
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 …
Apr
25
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 …
Apr
21
A lot of readers probably wouldn’t remember that old show, but in a sense, it’s a flipped version of what we’re seeing in the LPGA these days. Three women would be brought on a panel to tell their tales of woe, and the audience would respond by means of an Applause –O-meter. The most woeful …
Apr
20
Golf, as we all know, is a game of “What have you done for me lately?” It doesn’t care if you won a major last week, or what your endorsement income is. You can rest on your laurels all you want, but you can’t enter them as this week’s scores. There is a particular limbo, …
Apr
14
Following the week of “the tournament that must not be named,” I’ve begun to wonder what it is that PGA tournament victors really win. Of course, they win the purse, but we never get to see that, and it’s presumably gone before very long, in one direction or another. Actually, I wouldn’t want to see …
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