Fellow Pros Exasperated at DeChambeau Repeat Performance in Vegas A lot of people dared to hope that the DeChambeau phenomenon would not become a “thing”…but it did. There was no getting around it. It was inevitably going to become a “thing,” and a big one. What is now called “smash and bash golf” is becoming …
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Jan 23
Climate Change Shows Golf No Respect
Climate Change is Endangering Golf Courses, both Pedigreed and Munis My opinions on the reality of climate change are immaterial to the discussion, because I don’t know the details of the science. However, we don’t need to be rocket scientists to know that something is happening, and that we are in the way. Whatever sort …
Aug 29
Pesticides Making Courses Look Great
Do We Need to Change our View of Landscape Beauty Because of Pesticides? There we were at the Canadian Pacific, finishing up Saturday’s round – and there was Michelle Wie – and suddenly, there she wasn’t. Lamentably, Wie missed the fourth round, and ended up in Ottawa having an emergency appendectomy. We wish her a …
Aug 19
Death on the Golf Course
Death is a Mystery, and Many Speak Wistfully of Dying on the Golf Course The anticipation of dying is, of course, something that has to be worked out by each human brain individually, according to his or her beliefs, ways of being and thinking. In terms of the game of golf, death is a strange …
Mar 05
Can You Bully Golf?
Type “A” Golf As most people who pay any attention to the modern course of human events know, it’s election year in the United States, and that the process tends to bring out some colorful personalities and unusual threads of logic…and/or the opposite. This time around, we’ve got some real doozies flooding the airwaves, and …
LPGA News
- Zozo Championship at Sherwood Thursday tee times, TV and streaming infoMajor golf headlines are typically scarce this time of year. But with an unprecedented November Masters on the horizon, and Tiger Woods in (...)
- The Roberts cousins, Florida State freshmen, blitz Raven Golf Club to win Golfweek titlesMIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – Word of a 59 watch spreads like wildfire in a field of college players, which is to say not many men in the Golfweek (...)
- Tiger Woods is in a familiar place in his unfamiliar run-up to the MastersTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – En route to Magnolia Lane over the years, Tiger Woods has nearly always followed the same roadmap on his inner (...)
Latest Golf News
- Long drive guru leans on Bryson amid tour hopesLong drive champ Kyle Berkshire, whose ball speed has topped out -- so far -- at about 230 mph, is ready to return to the more conventional game and hopes to eventually earn his way into tour events.
- Tiger considers playing in Houston before MastersTiger Woods said on Tuesday that he is considering adding another tournament before the Masters -- the Houston Open.
- Masters merchandise offered online -- with catchFor the first time, Augusta National is offering online shopping -- but only to patrons who are on record as having tickets.