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 people...
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...