Jun 09
Rory McIlroy Wins the RBC Canadian Open, One Week Before U.S. Open The RBC Canadian Open attracted an excellent field for this year’s version, and Rory McIlroy ran away with it. Shane Lowry, who finished second, observed that he didn’t know what tournament Rory was playing, but that playing against the rest of the field, …
Jan 08
Rory Resents Olympics Forcing Him to Choose Alliance When called upon to express ourselves in a nationalistic way, it turns out that most of us are like corporations, owned by a lot of people and collectives. It usually works out all right, because our locale, our region, and our national membership are in lock step …
Sep 06
Putting Does a Turnaround at Deutsches Bank for McIlroy Of all the amateur golf devotees out there, such as myself, how many have ever heard of Scotty Cameron? How about Scotty Cameron of putter design fame? They say he’s pretty good at it, and has been at the game for quite a while. I noticed …
Jul 30
PGA At Baltusrol But No Rory If you’ve never spent much time in New Jersey, the sight of the Baltusrol golf club in Springfield might cause some confusion. Yes, there is the industrial section of the state, much of it chemical in nature, and shall we say, overly fragrant? Every state has an industrial section, …
Sep 16
Billy Horschel – Do I Know Him from Somewhere? I’ve been reading a lot of commentary lately about the ongoing coronation of Rory McIlroy, and some of them are very analytical – he has the youth, they say, that Tiger has lost – he does such and such better, longer, and more accurately than Tiger …
Jul 19
Rory Likes Mo’s Way As expected, the weather turned sour again at Royal Liverpool, and while that may have deterred some of the early leaders from sunny countries, albeit not much, it was all business as usual for Rory McIlroy, who shot his third consecutive round in the 60s to take a six stroke lead …
May 27
KORDA, MCILROY…and NICKLAUS? Good Putters All! It was a real horse race rounding the turn to the back nine this last weekend at the Airbus LPGA Championship, and for a while, it looked like a playoff between as many as six of the words greatest players. But, it’s better to be great at the end …
Jan 20
Interpreting the Numbers on the PGA Following the Humana Challenge this week, someone placed young Patrick Reed in the position of being, perhaps, the next greatest thing in the post-Tiger era. I was, of course, astonished, one more than one front. First of all, the post-Tiger era? With so much Tiger …
Dec 31
Golf and Tennis-Caroline Says Yes to Rory So, as we learned today, Rory McIlroy’s Christmas list worked out pretty well, considerably better than most other years, I would think. The question was popped in Sydney, and that word is dynamic enough to suggest that someone should hit it back, and who better than …
Dec 03
Rory McIlory Returns to Form The modern PGA , with all its talent and varied personalities, is an industry like no other, but without Rory McIlroy, it’s not quite the party that it should be. Well, it’s time to get the party started, because the life of it is back! I was patient – I …
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