As of the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, here are the future sites for the PGA Championship: 2011 – Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course), Johns Creek, GA 2012 – Kiawah Island (Ocean Course), Kiawah Island, SC 2013 – Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, NY 2014 – Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, KY 2015 – Whistling Straits...
Man, it is brutal covering a tournament that goes start, stop, start, stop. They started the third round with the lowest scores teeing off last on tee 1, and the highest scores teeing off last on tee 10. Those in the middle tee off in between. Got it. Phil and Tiger are on the course as we speak. Meanwhile Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh made moves to finish at 6-under and...
HAVEN, WI – You can score anywhere from 68 to 78 at the topsy-turvy Straits Course at Whistling Straits. In benign conditions and softened by the season-long rains, 87 players finished under par yesterday. When the wind howls off Lake Michigan however, the course is fearsome. In 2004 Vijay Singh won the PGA Championship with the highest closing round in...
Today at Cybergolf, I breakdown the key holes at Whistling Straits – the swing holes or “half-par” holes.
I also dodge lightning, drive through fog, and chase around golfers for quotes:)
HAVEN, WI – A wine-dark sky of swollen clouds grumbled ominously with thunder before the heavens opened up and rained bricks and bats on Steve Underwood’s head. It was okay though. He had Tim Clark’s umbrella safely in the golf bag. Meanwhile, Todd Sunderland counted D.J. Trahan’s clubs one last time. Fourteen, everything is fine. So as soon...
My latest piece. Enjoy. A day in the life of Steve Underwood (Tim Clark) and Todd Sunderland (D.J. Trahan).
HAVEN, WI – We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – Surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese. In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how tough Whistling Straits’s fearsome Straits Course played. Golf architect Pete Dye was castigated every bit as vehemently as he was when both Sawgrass...
HAVEN, WI – U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin stood his ground against sports broadcaster Jim Gray of Golf Channel yesterday in a heated, confrontational exchange in the PGA Championship media center. Responding to Gray and Golf Channel’s claims that Pavin had decided to offer Tiger Woods a Captain’s pick should Woods fail to secure an automatic...
Cybergolf has my first PGA Championship piece here. I’m off to walk nine holes with Tim Clark, Steve Underwood and posse. Meanwhile, here’s a snippet: “We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese. In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how...
The plane taxied to the terminal zone, cut its engines, and cooled its wings while I hi-tailed it out the door and into ground transport for the ride to Whistling Straits.
While I walk the course and cull a few quotes from players, here’s my Pete Dye interview from PGA.com.
The self-immolation of Tiger Woods continues at a frenetic pace, with little likelihood of relief until at least April 2011. After his third consecutive clueless round well over par, his rude and surly dismissal of no less a personage than Larry Dorman, the writer for the New York Times, is Exhibit A that Woods’s definition of “making my behavior more...
From the press release: “Highlighted by the pairing of 2009 PGA Champion Y.E. Yang, four-time PGA Champion Tiger Woods and 2004 PGA Champion Vijay Singh, as well the traditional grouping of the winners of the first three major golf championships of 2010, The PGA of America today announced the pairings for the first two rounds (Aug. 12-13) of the 92nd PGA...
He may be half 168 years old, but he’s still a lion in summer when it comes to golf architecture. The Dean of modern golf course architects, Pete Dye blends cunning design strategies that beguile pros with artistic flair that bewitches amateurs. His popularity across the globe is unquenchable, despite his reputation for building courses that play hard and look...
Cybergolf has just posted my Pete Dye interview. One week from this moment I’ll be winging west reading James Michener’s Chesapeake, (in prep for the Potomac Cup), while waiting for “wheels down” and the hour drive to the bucolic splendor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin and the PGA Championship. Thank goodness the week won’t be as chock-a-bloc...
Let’s quickly reset the schedule of events, coverage, and articles for the next few weeks: 1. The British Open! 2. My preview and live coverage of the PGA Championship 3. Article on Pasatiempo 4. Atlantic City Country Club 5. Golf along I-84 in the NE corridor 6. Book reviews of Titanic Thompson (Kevin Cook) and Ancestral Links (John Garrity). 7. Stephen Kay...