AWENDAW, SC - In a zany day at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Collegiate Invitational, unranked Central Florida and Florida State ran away from the field, while “Titleist” the Bull got loose and scampered around the course  to the delight of the patrons — Their mascot looks like Marvin the Martian from the Bugs Bunny Cartoons. You might mistake...
CHARLESTON, SC – As if a hometown Charleston, SC concert with Hootie and the Blowfish wasn’t amazing enough, John Daly made a surprise visit on stage. As the crowd thundered “DA-LY! DA-LY!, DA-LY! Big John grabbed a guitar and said “I’m rootin’ for my Hogs!” before playing Dylan’s classic Knockin’ on...
AWENDAW, SC – Charles Dickens wrote in his classic novel A Tale of Two Cities:  Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away...
Lamar…who knew? They just won their second event in a row, the Jim Hackler Invitational hosted by Coastal Carolina. Some polls have then 6th in the country and those that had them at 11th may boost them into the top 10 with little concern for criticism. Coastal Carolina, ranked anywhere from 9-15 was runner-up and gaining strength haeding toward the Hootie at...
Golf and rock and roll frequently work well together. Granted, they are not meant to be fused at the hip or married at the altar. Quiet, solitude and relaxing commune with nature are the essential therapeutic attributes of the game. Nevertheless, like a great rock concert, golf can also be exciting, electrifying and euphoric. The “roaring on the pines”...
Travis Smith, a gifted player for the Ball State University golf team was tragically killed in a traffic accident earlier this winter just a few blocks from the Muncie, Indiana college campus. As a true freshman, Travis played in eighteen competitive rounds for the Cardinals, including the 2006 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational, one of the NCAA’s premier...
I’ll be covering the college golf tournament hosted by Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish fame the week before the Masters. We’ll have reviews of the fantastic course, Mike Strantz’s fabled Bulls Bay in Awendaw as well as interviews with college stars, review of the celeb pro-am and tons more wall to wall coverage of great golf, great...
Four years ago, Ball State University golf coach Mike Fleck recruited four highly touted talents to come play for him. Four years later, this returning core of seniors and some gifted new finds are primed to seize control of the Mid-American Conference and send some major college programs back home licking their wounds. Fleck watches his charges intently as the play...