Sep 17
Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Phil Mickelson Don’t Want to Stop Tiger Woods shared a sympathetic tribute to tennis great Serena Williams as they share some of the ills we experience approaching middle age and beyond. He swept aside all other considerations for the moment, and chalked it up to the biggest reality in life. The …
Sep 14
Mirim Lee Hits Wall Shot, Wins ANA with Short Game Magic Yes, the culmination of Mirim Lee’s victory at the ANA was strange, without fans to cheer, extreme heat, and some of the weirdest short game shots one person can put into a final round. That included an intentional wall shot. It is unusual for …
Sep 10
High Heat, Smoke of Western Fires a Threat to LPGA Players This week, I received a first-hand lesson in forest fires, as part of a 10,000 person evacuation of a coastal town on the central Oregon coast. As we inched along at one half mile per hour with a vast fire at our heels, officers …
Sep 06
Ruffels Rises to High Amateur Standing in Brief Time It is time to once more harp on my perennial question. Why am I so coordinated in one thing but not in another? Why can’t physical skill be substituted to another activity? Why isn’t it transferable? As it turns out, it;s just me. There are indeed …
Sep 02
First Brit in Years to Win the Amateur, Joe Long Expands the Vocabulary I admit that I should have known better. Half of my family tree is British in origin from my grandparents generation and back. I was one of those kids speaking Eton English in an American elementary school, with all the quizzical looks …
Aug 30
Early Legend Chick Evans Left Enormous Legacy I had to think a little, but yes, I remember the name of Chick Evans, or more properly I should say Charles E. “Chick” Evans. However, the reason I remembered it is that I have a memory of seeing the name on the head of a driver as …
Aug 26
Sarah White, Just Starting Out, Wins Founders Tribute Everyone comes from somewhere, including everyone who is famous. Everyone who wins a big golf tournament won a small one somewhere back there. Everyone who plays on the LPGA had to qualify to get there. So why not write about Sarah White and her victory at Longbow …
Aug 24
Sophia Popov Stuns Golf World, Wins Open There are a lot of people who are smitten with great underdog stories, and I admit to being one of them. What happened this week at Royal Troon in Scotland is one of the best I can remember. A twenty-seven year old woman from Germany, Sophia Popov came …
Aug 20
Lorenzo-Vera Finally Starting to Show Some Traction on Tour Maybe it’s a French thing. The nation that helped the U.S. win its revolution and gifted a statue for the harbor of New York has had some excellent golfers. However, their names don’t seem to stick with us like others do. Perhaps it’s an American problem. …
Aug 15
Rob Oppenheim Defies Journeyman Label to Lead Wyndham Scoring is good in Greensboro, North Carolina, as the leaderboard goes deeper and deeper into under-par territory. For Rob Oppenheim, however, it rained birdies and eagles in the third round, resulting in a missed putt for a 62 – nice score if you can manage it. Doesn’t …
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