For those of you who missed it buried deep in my piece on the Super Bowl, click here to see the funniest golf prank ever. It’s actually taken from a Canadian Labatt’s as that I don’t think ever aired in the U.S. Enjoy.
For those of you who missed it buried deep in my piece on the Super Bowl, click here to see the funniest golf prank ever. It’s actually taken from a Canadian Labatt’s as that I don’t think ever aired in the U.S. Enjoy.
My Houston colleague Tom Kirkendall attended Dick’s funeral this week and covers the fond farewell remembrances with grace and wit. His piece is over at his website Houston’s Clear Thinkers, so please give it a read. I’m reprinting the highlight of the services here, direct from Tom’s site: “Best crack of the funeral came from brother...
I know Tom Doak has his ten point scale and Ron Whitten effectively uses a decimel system (e.g. 8.7) like an Olympic figure skating judge, but I use a system of zero to seven stars. Like Doak, we spend most of our time splitting hairs between the truly great and the merely pretty good. The five rating criteria are Design, Natural Setting, Conditioning, Value and...
Jim Engh and Tim Hartnett sent me a couple pix of the new nine Jim is building at Carne. The top pic is 9…the dunes pinch at the landing area. The bottom pic is 7, looking towards the green. Both holes needed almost no grading and the holes will look the same with the fairway and rough cut. Grading is almost done. Jim is going over in May to start green...
The Golf World lost one of its greatest instructors and gentlemen yesterday. Dick Harmon died unexpectedly at the age of 58 from complications to pneumonia. Houston Native Tom Kirkendall has written a glowing tribute to Dick. Click here to read Tom’s Blog Houston’s Clear Thinkers. Since Tom’s piece says everything best, there’s really nothing...
Just keep going until you can’t go any further. Then go further, because the moves you make then – when you’ve run out of steam and you’re totally on subconscious and not even thinking about the mechanics – the moves you make then are incredible. – Jeff Buckley Musician Jeff Buckley was talking about himself, but he was speaking...
Golfers don’t need Punxatawny Phil or Staten Island Chuck (NYC’s copycat groundhog) to tell them when to go play. DC and Baltimore area players are chomping at the bit now with this warm winter. Public golf in DC usually averages about $95, which as we all know is too steep. To maximize your golf dollars, here is a review of the best public courses in the...
“Steelers record motown hit” read the headline. Sure the refs were awful, but the fact is the Steelers made plenty of huge completions and timely runs when they had to make them. The refs had nothing to do with the poor defensive playcalling that led to Parker’s 75 yard romp untouched. (UNTOUCHED!) for a TD. The refs didn’t have anything to do...
“Jay. Jay, get up. Come on, up” a voice urged through darkness and painful throbbing in my head. But getting up seemed like an awful idea. When I opened my eyes, more pain shot through my brain. My stomach did a dip and a roll. Everything ached, at least everything that had feeling at that moment. I felt like if I did an inventory several crucial things...
One of the best benefits of ESPN’s waning “golf coverage” is that we won’t have to hear them beat the drum as much about their “upcoming golf coverage.” This works especially well this week at the FBR Open where last year was a constant indoctrination at their boot camp for social angst that “drunk rowdy crowds are great for...
We interrrupt this golf website to bring you a special bulletin. Scientists have confirmed that a solid, rocky “Kuiper Belt” object orbiting our sun called “UB313” is actually a “tenth planet” and is larger in diameter (by 1,500 miles) then the former furthest planet from the sun, Pluto. That’s interesting. So now...
So most of you panned the 18th century fortification shaping of this French Golf Course. By an amazing 95-5 ratio, Dunkirk’s sharply angled fairways and less than flowing lines seemed both too artificial and too much baroque crap to resonate at all with you. Could you imagine being a developer and giving an architect a seaside piece of land and coming on-site...
All right I’ve had it. This calls for an epic rant. I was out with this girl and talking about how great the Blue Man Group Rock DVD is and I wind up my glowing review with “And they played “Baba O’Riley” for an encore! What does she say? “What’s that? It sounds like an Irish pub?” I asked her if she knew “that...
I got trapped in a bar last night with a bunch of drunk NYC cops who never follow golf, but sure follow Tiger. “Yoooooooooooooooo! Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiger!” they screamed through a beer-fueled haze between “Where day playins? San Diego? Aww dat’s buddaful!” ‘e’s gunna win right now!” Yeeesh, is was like a hangover...
The first part of my article on Redlands is here. Below, you’ll find the UPDATED star system ratings, based on the SEVEN star system. Most of Engh’s unique design elements are present at Redlands. His trademark squiggly muscle bunkers are placed “randomly” – i.e. where the land accepts them, not at any specific distance from the tee...