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 …
Tag: course
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 …
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 …