Nicely done, Jeff Shelley. Also congratulations to Lester George, the architect who did the revisions to the Old White.
Nicely done, Jeff Shelley. Also congratulations to Lester George, the architect who did the revisions to the Old White.
At Turnberry Cold Wind Blows and Hot Water Runs Deep By Jay Flemma and Maggie MacAlpine “Boys can’t do anything right!” she shrieked. No Banshee of Ayrshire ever wailed with greater ferocity. Yes, I’m in the doghouse again with my girl Britt, this time for the unpardonable sin of being mesmerized by the grand theatre of this year’s...
BETHPAGE, NY – This is a Cinderella story that reads not only like a fairy tale, but also like one of Clive Cussler’s “Dirk Pitt” spy stories, the espionage novels newly-minted U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover loves so much, that he reads three or four of them in a week. Indeed, Glover not only came out of nowhere as a storybook sectional...
…from Cybergolf last week: BETHPAGE, NY – As his head hit the pillow last night, his thoughts swirled, and the Cimmerian fog of sleep ebbed and eddied in his mind, Ricky Barnes had to be more than just restless. He had to toss and turn worse than the girl in the old fairy tale, “The Princess and the Pea.” Yesterday ended dismally for him...
First, my piece on Ricky Barnes’s awful night’s sleep last night.
Then my second round recap.
As we go to press, Lucas Glover just bogeyed, and David Duval just birdied to give us a 3-way tie for the lead at 3-under.
My latest Cybergolf article. Enjoy.
BETHPAGE, NY – Had I been sitting down, I surely would have fallen out of my chair at the question: “So, Rees, is this going be the easiest U.S. Open in years?” It was a moment that woke you up with a thunderclap. It was why I love covering sports: you’re right there at the firing line in the heat of battle thinking and reacting to...
BETHPAGE, NY – Frank Lloyd Wright once wrote, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” What the man who became famous for designing Marge Simpson’s hair didn’t tell you was that if you tip the world over on its other side, everything loose lands at Bethpage State Park for the U.S. Open. Because...
Cybergolf has my first piece of this week’s U.S. Open: In a New York State of Mind.
Golf course design piece coming next.
No matter how much hope and change comes to the U.S.G.A. offices in Far Hills, N.J., at the U.S. Open when it comes to a difficult set-up at Bethpage, The Song Remains the Same. Cybergolf.com has more.
Look for additional U.S. Open pieces here, at Cybergolf, and at GolfObserver.com.
There will be plenty to read at Cybergolf this week. I’ll be covering the Travis Invitational, and Jeff Shelley is writing about his trip to Scotland to play St. Andrews. In bad news, one of Chicago’s two terrible courses that we just can’t get rid of, Cog Hill, is now vying to be the next “People’s Open” host. This is what the...
I have a busy two weeks coming up, between doing some readings for my soon-to-be-published book, prepping architect interviews, and hitting the last few stragglers for “Best new course” awards, so today, I’ll let a Cybergolf colleague do the heavy lifting for me. Blaine Newnham has this article on Old Macdonald up at Cybergolf. Old Mac is the fourth...
In a scene right out of Dan Jenkins’s quintessential golf novel, Slim and None, Kenny Perry, just a few months from eligibility for the Champions Tour, lost his chance become the oldest winner of a major golf championship in a hard luck scenario that broke golf fans’ hearts a thousand different ways. Reminiscent of Jenkins’s hero Bobby Joe Grooves...
In a scene right out of Dan Jenkins’s quintessential golf novel, “Slim and None,” Kenny Perry, just a few months from eligibility for the Champions Tour, lost his chance become the oldest winner of a major golf championship in a hard-luck scenario that broke golf fans’ hearts a thousand different ways.
To all those Tiger-philic sportswriters pandering to the casual fan – you know the type, the ones who tell you pre-tournament that “the buzz” is always and only “Tiger vs. Phil” – allow me to quote the immortal Jerry Garcia: Well, well, well…You can never tell! Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry may not attract casual eyeballs, or be...