What They Want For Holiday (or for Day 2 of the PGA Championship)
Lee Westwood-Putting: There was a couple nice ones at the start of the day, but then I just didn't get anything on line for the rest of the round, so it just turned into frustration.
Nick Watney-Fewer Mistakes: Yeah, it was tough. 14, I was sti...
What They Want For Holiday (or for Day 2 of the PGA Championship)
Lee Westwood-Putting: There was a couple nice ones at the start of the day, but then I just didn't get anything on line for the rest of the round, so it just turned into frustration.
Nick Watney-Fewer Mistakes: Yeah, it was tough. 14, I was sti...
Atlanta Athletic Club as venue for PGA Championship
This 2011 PGA Championship will be the fifth major and fourth men's major to be played at Atlanta Athletic Club since 1976. That year, Jerry Pate hit a fabled 5-iron out of rough, over water and onto a peninsula green to claim victory on the Highl...
One Western Amateur Match: How Important Is It In The Walker Cup Selection Process?
Today, Chris Williams plays the most important match in his quest to make the USA Walker Cup team. Understand, it won't determine much else in Chris Williams life (future spouse, career choice, permanent residence) but it might impact the run he h...
World Amateur Golf Rankings: Something is amiss
I am not looking at specifics here, so bear with me and criticize me if necessary, but I need an answer to this question: How do the World Amateur Golf Rankings work?
Here are a few elevations since the last ranking, followed by major performance ele&...
Pre-Porter Cup Team USA Walker Cup Update (July 2011)
Back a bit, I tossed some names as certain Walker Cup selection. The five names were Patrick Cantlay, Peter Uihlein, Nathan Smith, David Chung and Russell Henley. Those five still stand as autos in my view and I'm ready to add three more names to ...
Pre-Porter Cup Team USA Walker Cup Update (July 2011)
Back a bit, I tossed some names as certain Walker Cup selection. The five names were Patrick Cantlay, Peter Uihlein, Nathan Smith, David Chung and Russell Henley. Those five still stand as autos in my view and I'm ready to add three more names to ...
Pre-Porter Cup Team USA Walker Cup Update (July 2011)-see addendum at bottom
Back a bit, I tossed some names as certain Walker Cup selection. The five names were Patrick Cantlay, Peter Uihlein, Nathan Smith, David Chung and Russell Henley. Those five still stand as autos in my view and I'm ready to add three more names to ...
Eastern New York Twosome: Tall Grass & Union Vale
Gil Hanse and Stephen Kay had enough time to establish themselves as legitimate golf course architects before the collapse of the Roman, errr, American economy. They each developed a body of work that keeps some new and mostly rennovative work coming t...
Golf Officials: It Boggles The Mind!!
Give a man a little power and watch out! Remember Sarah Brown and the retired elementary school principal incident last year on the Futures Tour? It happened again, this week, at the USGA Junior Amateur. Here's the story as reported by the Kitsap ...
Speculation runs rampant with Tiger Woods’ caddie announcement
No one knew that speculation was such a fast cat. He was loosed today around water coolers everywhere, yet is so slippery that no one could get a hold on him to reign him in. The motivation for this dash for recognition? Tiger Woods' announcement ...
Bethpage Binge 2011: Worth The Wait
Back in aught-two, by crackey, I made my first trip to Bethpage Black for the U.S. Open, the first "Peoples' Open" hosted at the venerable municipal course in Farmingdale, N.Y. Weather was shaky, golf was marvelous, Tiger won, I was hook...
