Mar 27
Four of the Greats Will Grace the Launch of Augusta National Women’s Amateur Its hard to believe that we are only one week out from the first major women’s event at Augusta, site of the annual Masters. I recently wondered loud in print at how they would handle the opening ceremonies, and although I’m still …
Mar 25
Is the PGA Doping Policy Social, Legal, or Physical? Most of us saw enough of the marijuana culture when we were in college, unless we attended a school out of the mainstream of social norms. I can’t speak for other countries, but in the U.S., it was everywhere. Colleagues in my major, a public performance …
Mar 20
Augusta Making History, Bit by Bit, Announces Next Installment Georgia Hall must be around twenty-two or twenty-three years old about now. She’s just getting started in the pros after a terrific amateur career. In terms of her first success in the pros, it’s a little like biting the apple in the garden. Her win came …
Mar 18
Rory McIlroy Wins Players, Proves Road to Success Different for Everyone A lot of people, more every year, refer to the Players Championship as the ‘Fifth Major.’ Perhaps at some point, the lucrative event will actually become one, officially. The Players gets a lot of respect as an event, and almost everyone who plays at …
Mar 13
“Magical” Kenya Open Joins European Tour for Inaugural Event If we are to fully grasp what is happening to the game of golf around the world, dropping some old perceptions will be prerequisite, especially when it comes to the African continent. Those of us who grew up in the age of fictitious movies and novels …
Mar 11
Francesco Molinari Wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational, “Arnie-Style” Up until two or three years ago, Francesco Molinari was only making a living playing golf. He did well, managing a fair number of top tens, but some switch has been flipped, and he is much more of a presence than one intent on gathering top tens. …
Mar 07
The Arnold Palmer Invitational Makes Us Take a Look Back The field has teed it up this week at Bay Hill in Orlando for a tournament bearing the name of someone so important that the game would be in the dark ages without him. I never met Arnold Palmer, and never got the opportunity to …
Mar 04
War Over New Rules Obscuring the Game Rule changes occur once in a while, we all know that. And, from time to time, someone goofs up and incurs a penalty. In the old days, it didn’t happen so often that one might think it was the order of the day, but in the past few …
Feb 27
The Open on a Collision Course with Brexit We are only a few short weeks away from witnessing Britain float away from the continent in every conceivable way that is relevant to daily life as a European. Solutions do exist, but no convincing majority favors any of them, so opening one’s bumbershoot, holding one’s nose, …
Feb 24
History-making Lee Elder to be Honored at Pebble Beach, 2019 Lee Elder is about to make history…again. He was the first African-American golfer to play in the Masters, and the first to play in the Ryder Cup. He represented a great presence in the pioneering days of non-white golfers in the United States, with Charlie …
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