What a lousy week for professional golf. First boats start floating across fairways at The Greenbriar Resort, forcing cancellation of the PGA Tour event and sending everyone scrambling for rescue and clean-up efforts after a disaster displaced thousands in West Virginia. But then came the embarrassing double whammy that a) Jordan Spieth is pulling out of the Olympics...
While we’re down in Florida playing Seminole, Old Memorial, and both Streamsong courses, Ernesto the Prediction Iguana is ready for the Super Bowl. It’s his last appearance for the year, so lets end on a high note. We went 3-1 over all last wee, 1-1 in teasers, bringing the playoff totals to 4-2 in teasers, 9-3 overall. Here’s your winning play for...
Well golf certainly had a What-the-hell? Weekend! Tin-foil hat stuff meets the PGA Tour. First there was Robert Allenby who is mysteriously sporting facial cuts and bruises after some sort of attack in Hawaii. Allenby missed the cut in the SONY Open and went out to a wine bar for dinner and drinks with his caddie and his friends. The rest of the story is Twilight...
It’s that time again – silly season. Yes the advent of the Holidays heralds peace, love, and goodwill to all men, (and shopping deals to part you from what little disposable income you have left…), but it also means lowest common denominator television events, strange formats, and pining for golf if you live in the North Country. Still, each year we...
When the second edition of attorney-turned-professor John “Jack” Minan’s “Little Book of Golf Law, 2nd Edition” came across my desk last week my first thought was “Oh no, not this guy again.” Minan is a well-liked professor of law at the University of San Diego, a job he took after an impressive record as a practicing...
Tiger apologists are high-fiving each other in the streets following the announcement earlier today that Woods is parting ways with coach Sean Foley…one day after one of Foley’s other high-profile charges won the Barclay’s and took the lead in the FedEx Cup standings. “With my next tournament not until my World Challenge event (Dec. 1-7) at...
I’m all for quirky golf courses, but there’s “Quirky Interesting” and then there’s “Quirky Weird,” and although it’s a fine a line between the two, you know the difference when you see it. It’s unmistakable. Sometimes just a matter of millimeters, like the difference between a beautiful woman and a plain one, or...
A while back, I introduced you all to my pal Ector, (name changed to protect the innocent:)) You all remember my pal Ector, right? The guy who whiffed and took a divot the size of a football? Well Ector is off the hook forever! Meet Rojas, (pronounced ROE-hass), also not his real name): “Rojas” just moved to NYC from the Dominican Republic. He’s...
10. Wow, Michelle Wie really needs to shave her legs. 9. That’s not Ian Poulter, it’s a villain on “Doctor Who.” 8. IJP Designs EPIC FAIL! 7. I thought the guys in DEVO all wore funny hats? 6. The art of Seduction…NOT! 5. Okay, I’m ready for another Ice Bucket Challenge. 4. This is what happens when you lose a bet to Joost Luiten...
We’re bringing it back! An old favorite column we haven’t run in ages – Think Before you Facebook Something Stupid. In fact, in honor of Steve Elkington’s horrifying Twitter account, especially yesterday’s homophobic lunacies, we may expand the column to Twitter soon as well. But for now, here’s the latest vapid, stupid, shocking...
Pop mega-star Prince continued his knight-errant battle against on-line music piracy by suing fans trading recordings and bootlegged musical performances through Blogger and Facebook. Citing the Federal copyright law and other anti-piracy statutes, Plaintiff “Prince Rogers Nelson” brought action in the Northern District of California against two named...
Since silly season is upon us, it’s time to turn our attention to the yearly Jay’s Golf Awards, known around here as the Jazzys. We’ll recall all the best and worst of the year while mixing in some new course reviews, Cybergolf pieces, and various holiday bric-a-brac before kicking off the new year with Phish at MSG. We’ll highlighting Best...
They asked Paul Goydos what he thought of Rees Jones’s work renovating Oakland Hills for the 2008 PGA Championship. He replied, “If they had Res re-do Scrabble, he’d leave out the vowels…” Hat tip” Dan Jenkinsw See everybody after we win the President’s Cup, Ernesto’s football picks go 2-1, and I return from Southward...
So our new friend Robert Silk over at Golf Tantrums recently did a piece about my Uncle Marcie’s epic flame-out from golf. Uncle Marcie you’ll recall quit the game by throwing everything – clubs, hat, and shoes – into the reservoir bordering Valley View Golf Course one day. I’ll leave you to read Rob’s story here, but the next time...
Let’s have a polite golf clap (but not a “mashed potatoes” or “baba booey”) for the newest blogger on the block – Rob Silk and “Golf Tantrums.” He’ll be keeping tabs on all the swearing, clubthrowiing, and otherwise deplorable behavior of St. Tiger, Rory Sabbatini, and all the other club-throwing, caddie-abusing...