DUCK! PHIL’S GOT A NEW CLUB AGAIN! Phil Mickelson loves to tinker. First it was two drivers, then I was no driver, then it was no 3-wood, then it was 80-degree wedge, (or something like that)…now it’s “Phrankenclub,” a cross between a driver and 3-wood which is supposed to hit the ball out of sight, but not into the rough or trees. Phil was...
It’s the 10 most magical Masters of the last 50 years. (BTW – everything this week will be up at Cybergo9lf first, then here on twenty-four hour delay. From the article: 7. Larry Mize in 1987 Remember that poker movie “Rounders?” When Matt Damon says, “If you look around the table and you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s...
The Masters may herald spring to the golf world, but it’s really Christmas in April. It’s golf’s yearly celebration of rebirth – a reunion, a revival and the gold standard of how a championship should be run but, better still, for one week all sports fans will be of good cheer, tradition, altruism and sportsmanship. For that reason alone, the...
Here’s my Masters preview for Cybergolf. I’ll have updates here all week, as well as two more long pieces for Cybergolf, so Happy Masters everyone:) From the preview: “Now, after Woods raced out to three early wins in 2013, the media, desperate for more casual eyeballs, are proclaiming him “back” with a paroxysm of hagiographic hero...
In a victory for rights of at least at the top .01% of female American businesswomen, Augusta National will admit two female members: former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore, who the New York Daily News called, “a trailblazing banker with GOP ties. In the 1980s she was a turnaround artist with Chemical Bank and became the highest paid woman in...
The guys on GolfClubAtlas.com are really good! Tony Muldoon put up this photo, but basically all the guys over there have done a Masterful job – pun intended – of sleuthing out Bubba Watson’s ball flight, especially after the photo that made the rounds last weekend. Basically, a whole bunch of guys over there broke down the location of Bubba, the...
This photo purports to show the absolutely insane ball flight of Bubba Watson’s screaming hook that finally put Louis Oosthuizen away at the 2012 Masters. (Photo from Chris Chappell, blue-line drawing supposedly via MSPaint.exe from Watson’s caddie based on where he thought they were.) Apparently what’s really going on is that this was a bad guess...
Everyone knows that when a new Pope is elected, white smoke appears above the Vatican, a Cardinal joyously announces “Habemus Papam!” (“We have a Pope!”) and then adoring crowds await the new Holy Father’s arrival at the balcony for his first public address as Pontiff. Yet what most people don’t know is what happens behind the...
Cybergolf will run my piece in the morning but here’s a snippet: “Watson’s faith and grace stand in stark contrast to Tiger Woods, who threw clubs, swore, and snarled acidly all week as he sulked his way to a dismal 5-over finish. The comparison is one of sincere value versus insincere value – Woods’s media-constructed image as a crass...
—“With all these geriatrics playing so well in majors, Woods may try until age 70 to pass Nicklaus’s record.” S.I.’s Gary Van Sickle in a conversation with your author— Drinking deeply from the fountain of youth, 52-year-old Fred Couples turned the clock back 20 years with a sparkling 5-under 67 and seized a share of the Masters...
Way to go Jeff Shelley. Rockin’ the Masters and PDQ! The link is here. From the article: “Four-time European Ryder Cup member Miguel Angel Jimenez outplayed Tiger Woods both days, earning himself some ink and telecast time for something other than his R-rated warm-up routine, though that still elicited some laughs from these observers: Golf...
All this nonsense about adding women members at Augusta (which ran long past it’s shelf life when it continued past Wednesday) was bad enough… but when one silly and foolish went so far as to publish the flat out lie that Augusta was founded on the “bedrock foundational tenet of segregation,” that was the last straw. When the New York Times is...
We’ll be tweeting all weekend here at my feed. Also, we’ll have the tournament recap duty here and at Cybergolf tonight and Sunday.
Charl Schwartzel, thank you for introducing us to South African BBQ and “Monkey Gland Sauce.” (Hat tip: Steve DiMeglio) “An iced seafood display kicks off the meal and includes shrimp, lobster, oysters, King crab legs and the aforementioned Jumbo lump crabmeat, all ready to be topped with an assortment of sauces. International cheeses and crudite is...
This year, it’s been a warm winter and a hot spring in more ways than just the weather report. The PGA Tour season has heated up like a microwave, with nearly every big name either winning outright or rounding into shape in time for the Masters. Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald, Bill Haas, Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, Adam Scott and, yes, even Tiger...