A new Cybergolf article here! Highlights: 1. Pete Dye’s recent ace at the 3rd at Delray! 2. Analysis of the courses and clubs! 3. Laughs at Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller:):)! And more! From the article: Dye explained the formative years of his design philosophy in an earlier interview with your author: “Back then, Trent [Robert Trent Jones, Sr.] was...
PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA – The greatest compliment I can pay a golf course is that I choose to return to play it over and over. That is a short list, let me tell you. On the public side Bandon Dunes Resort, anything by Mike Strantz, (that covers Pinehurst, Williamsburg, and Caledonia/True Blue in Myrtle), New Mexico…there’s a few others. On the private...
Sawgrass and World Woods and the PGA Golf Club (Dye Course…) Woo hoo hoo!
I’ll be back down there at Quail Ridge, Delray Dunes, and many more for another week of writing and golf. See everyone on the other side of the holiday.
While the holidays rumble toward us, I’m finishing up the past few articles of the year. Next up at Cybergolf: My review of Florida public golf. Link tomorrow!
Everyone have a happy, healthy, and holy holiday season!
by Franklin S. Tower –Special to AWITP– MULKITEO, WA – In a stunning power swap, the Minnesota Vikings tapped Cybergolf.com Editor-in-Chief Jeff Shelley to become their new head coach. In a related matter, former Vikings coach Brad Childress will become the new editor-in-chief of Cybergolf. “From now on I will be editing Brett Favre’s...
This one was so much fun. Blue and Gold, Blue and Gold, everywhere you look, Blue and Gold. From the article: How can you not love Santa Cruz? It’s like a wax museum with a pulse, to paraphrase modern-day philosopher Vincent Vega. Banana Slugs and terrible Shakespeare (who the hell else would do King Lear wearing nothing except for barbed wire and the metal cap...
In prep for Cybergolf’s coverage of the Ryder Cup, Blaine Newnham played Pennard and Royal Porthcawl. Here’s his Cybergolf article.
Great job by Jeff Shelley getting this up so quick. It’s my long form review of Ballyhack Golf Club in Roanoke, VA. We’ll have more pictures here over the next few days, after I get up to Boston to cover the Deutsche Bank. From the article: “In 2003 George thought his search for a truly great piece of land for his dream course was over. The 370 acre...
I just got off the phone with a former rules official who tells me he would have been aggressive about reminding Dustin about that being a bunker, but that’s 20-20 hindsight. In today’s piece, I call out the broadcast for misleading viewers, but also Dustin, a guy I covered from his college days at Coastal Carolina. From the article: Let’s get...
I wrote it here at Cybergolf. Watney channels his inner Retief, Dustin at Pebble, blows 3 shot lead. We are tied at the PGA. Meanwhile, that’s my fave piece of the week so far. From the article: “Tonight, Watney sleeps on a three-shot lead, but that may be the most unsafe margin in golf. Retief Goosen was in a similar situation in the 2005 U.S. Open at...
Man, it is brutal covering a tournament that goes start, stop, start, stop. They started the third round with the lowest scores teeing off last on tee 1, and the highest scores teeing off last on tee 10. Those in the middle tee off in between. Got it. Phil and Tiger are on the course as we speak. Meanwhile Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh made moves to finish at 6-under and...
Today at Cybergolf, I breakdown the key holes at Whistling Straits – the swing holes or “half-par” holes.
I also dodge lightning, drive through fog, and chase around golfers for quotes:)
My latest piece. Enjoy. A day in the life of Steve Underwood (Tim Clark) and Todd Sunderland (D.J. Trahan).
Cybergolf has my first PGA Championship piece here. I’m off to walk nine holes with Tim Clark, Steve Underwood and posse. Meanwhile, here’s a snippet: “We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese. In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how...
He may be half 168 years old, but he’s still a lion in summer when it comes to golf architecture. The Dean of modern golf course architects, Pete Dye blends cunning design strategies that beguile pros with artistic flair that bewitches amateurs. His popularity across the globe is unquenchable, despite his reputation for building courses that play hard and look...