Click here for my re-cap of yesterdays action on Cybergolf.com
Click here for my re-cap of yesterdays action on Cybergolf.com
Sal Johnson of Golf Observer has some great stats and analysis of the first round. Click here for the Golf Observer blog. “If you’re wondering about the chances of a first round leader after nine holes winning: “Since World War II, ten Masters champions have shot the low opening nine-hole score and gone on to win. Last year Trevor Immelman shot 34...
A few weeks ago, Jeff Shelley ran my Masters preview at Cybergolf. It’s been up for as while, and I’m glad people like it.  I’ll also be providing articles after Friday’s and Sunday’s round, again at Cybergolf, then re-run here as well. I may even have some other smaller news and notes as well. So here it is, my Masters preview...
I picked Padraig Harrington Enjoy.
Check it out and poke around for a while.
Tom Coyne walked 1,400 miles around the entire circumference of Ireland, playing every seaside links. It took him fourmonths and lots of chits with his wife Allyson. Enjoy. It’s here. Slante, Tom, and welcome to the Honor Roll. Pull up a chair next to Kevin Cook. From the article: JF: Why do this in the first place? [Walk around all of Ireland] TC: A...
…is up at Cybergolf. We talk about Cowboys Golf Club, Turtle Hill, Indian Creek (a little), and Pine Dunes.
Hat tip: Dan Mills and his music. Here’s to an overnight sensation.
Talk about the greatest blessing Christmas could offer, Cybergolf’s own Jeff Shelley – a direct descendant of Percy Byssche Shelley and Mary Shelley – became a grampa today. Here’s the announcement: “Elliot Michael Nelson, the first son of our daughter Erica and her husband Mike, arrived at 4:45 p.m. on Christmas day in San Francisco ...
Cybergolf’s Dave Andrews is reporting live from the LPGA Q School, so tune in to all his in-depth coverage. With a final round 74, Michelle Wie finished in a tie for seventh place in the LPGA Q School, earning her tour card for 2009. Stacy Lewis shot a 69 (aggregate 342), and won the event by three shots over Amy Yang. The top twenty finishers earned their...
This week is my fourth anniversary as a professional sportswriter, as well as the 4th birthday of this website. One of my traditions is an anniversary piece, so here it is: an interview with Robert Trent, Jr. He’ll surprise you, that for certain. JF: Who are some of your favorite architects? RTJ: Tillie (A.W. Tillinghast). Great golf course architects fit...
The winter tour will be in Texas and will once again feature rock stars Bowling For Soup as my playing partners. We’ll be hitting Jeff Brauer’s Cowboys G.C. in Dallas, Colonial C.C., Pine Dunes, Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, and others. Deets later. For now, Steve Habel, Cybergolf’s southwest correspondent has this report on Texas PGA and...
Click here for the Golf Channel article, and here for the extended Cybergolf piece on the closing of Beechtree.
Great peace…err…piece, Jeff. Yea! Rah Rah! Golf! If we played more golf, we’d all get along better.
ABERDEEN, MD – The heartwarming glow that is The Sportlight dimmed briefly as night fell over Aberdeen, Maryland. Beechtree Golf Club, a Tom Doak design conceived and built before Pacific Dunes catapulted his meteoric rise to stardom, hosted a somber yet eager gathering on this warm Saturday in early fall. Fourteen ardent golfers – dutiful students of...
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – The trophy is bigger than him, but his heart is bigger than the trophy. Padraig Harrington, the 2008 PGA Champion looked like a Bulgarian weightlifter doing a “clean and jerk” as he thrust the squat, bulky Rodman Wanamaker Trophy awkwardly into the air with both hands. Nevertheless, as elated as he was after outdueling star...