May
15
I haven’t been to New Jersey for a little while, but as a golfer, I believe that it might be the most entertaining state in the union this weekend, with Texas running close. The Sybase Match Play will come to Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, May 17 – 20. It’s televised, although some on …
May
13
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 …
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
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 …
Apr
05
First Round Masters: A Horse Race We knew that Augusta would look her finest. We knew that the best of the best would be present. We knew that there might be controversy over membership questions, etc., and we knew that somebody would play great golf. We just weren’t sure who it would be. Like many …
Mar
10
I had no idea that the most well know symbol of American wealth was so crazy about the game of golf. I didn’t know that he played it, watched it…or had extensive financial relationships with it. Apparently, Donald Trump is passionate over the Scottish game, to the point where he has more than broken ground …
Mar
03
In this age of wonder-teen golfers coming out of the woodwork, one’s got to wonder how many times the golf world can be conquered and reconquered until the sensation of it all gets old. When Paul Creamer came out and won the Evian, I wondered if there’d ever be another wunderkind like this. Suddenly, there’s …
Mar
02
In October of 2009, Michelle Wie and Padraig Harrington made impassioned speeches in Copenhagen before an international body of peers, at least indirectly. No, they hadn’t been detained by customs, and they weren’t protesting anything. The body they addressed was the IOC, the International Olympic Committee, and soon after, that body voted to include golf …
Feb
27
In all the hoopla over the Accenture Match Play last week, we were reduced to seeing which European would win the whole shooting match. Tiger went down in flames with the rest of his countrymen, and Rory McIllroy rolled over Lee Westwood into the finals – that should have been all she wrote. However, there …
Feb
24
It’s easy to believe that tournament style play in modern golf is the way it was supposed to be, and how it always was. However, early golf didn’t see a horde of one hundred players marching down the fairways in groups of four, catching glimpses of leaderboards and group over/under banners toted from hole to …
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