Can the PGA Tour, LPGA court the new, profitable, cash-rich Ford back for sponsorship to a Michigan event?
Hopefully by now, tour commissioners Michael Whan and Tim Finchem have sent Ford CEO Alan Mulally a fresh fruit basket with an invitation to possibly play a few holes together and talk future sponsorships. It's time for the auto companies to get back o...
Time for Boo Weekley to get his Ryder Cup game face on
Boo Weekley has two solid finishes in a row, 10th at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans today and 12th last week at Harbour Town's Verizon Heritage. Now it's time to take it up a notch if he wants any shot at making the USA Ryder Cup team later this y&a...
St. Patrick’s Day: a reminder to start planning your Ireland golf vacation
Some people just can't wait for St. Patrick's Day. I stumbled into a bar last night in Austin that was already celebrating. Here's an Irish joke the MC told: An Texas man walks into a bar in Dublin, and says to an Irish man: "Hey, I heard you Iris...
Pinehurst Academy study reveals the right and wrong way to practice at the driving range
The Golf Channel Am Tour event in Austin is this week, a two-day tournament at Barton Creek's Crenshaw Cliffside Course, and my golf game so far this winter has been an abomination: flashes of brilliance with enough triple bogeys to make me not even ca...
Dallas Morning News unveils the 50 best public golf courses in Texas
Funny, the day it hits the high 70s in Austin, signaling the first real good spring day of the year, the Dallas Morning News unveils its 50 Best Golf Courses in Texas You Can Play list. Click here for the Dallas Morning News Ranking. As expected,&h...
Seriously, softy Palm Springs golfers, Classic Club can’t possibly be that windy
I had no idea there was such notoriety to the Classic Club, a former Bob Hope Classic site in Palm Desert. Talk to people around Palm Springs, and you'd think the course, located just off I-10, was actually built in a black hole. The receptionist at&am...
Traverse City’s King’s Challenge has a new name, design: Manitou Passage Golf Club
It's never too early in the season to start talking about golf in Michigan. And I received a pleasant release this morning about a course reopening. King's Challenge, which was closed throughout 2009, has reopened as Manitou Passage Golf Club. From t&a...
At long last, an afternoon in Pinehurst with Tom Doak’s controversial Confidential Guide to Golf Courses
Last week when I was debating whether to tee it up in windy, sub 40 degree temps at Pinehurst, I took a stroll around the Tufts Archives. Much to my delight, I finally came across a copy of Like many golf course architecture buffs, I'd love to have a&a...
How tough are classic Donald Ross greens at Pinehurst? About 1200 yards tougher
PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA -- Day one at Pinehurst I played No. 7, the longest of the Pinehurst courses at 7,216 yards and 6,819 yards from the blue tees, which I played from. I followed that up with a round today on classic No. 3, a Donald Ross desig&a...
Teeing it up in golf country: Pinehurst Resort and the Carolina Sandhills
There's a lot of golf-rich regions in the world, from Scottsdale to the Grand Strand, Monterey Peninsula, Palm Springs, St. Andrews and plenty more. But I'd have a hard time finding a more golf-rich region in terms of holes per acre than the the one I'...
Lets not jump to Tiger Woods ‘selfish’ conclusions just yet
A video out there making viral rounds is Golf Channel's Alex Miceli, going off on the timing of Tiger Woods' non-press conference at TPC Sawgrass tomorrow morning. Click here to watch Micelli go off. I'm impressed with Miceli's cahones. Few beat&h...
Combine SXSW, tournament golf at Barton Creek in the Golf Channel Am Tour in Austin
Austin's South by Southwest music, film and interactive festival and golf go together more than you might think. During Austin's major spring festival that draws hundreds of bands, indie film makers, web gurus and fans, the city practically shuts dow&a...
