BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – Here’s four words I’ll bet you never thought you’d hear uttered joyfully on a golf course: Thank goodness, it rained. To be precise, it poured. It rained bricks and bats. The lightning crashed and the thunder rolled. Two holes opened up in the roof of the media tent, sending journalists scrambling like rabbits for...
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Click here for the Day 1 recap at Cybergolf.
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I sound like the Drink-o-Matic machine from the Hitchhiker’s Guide series: “Share and enjoy…”
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There’ll be some wicked energy in Detroit this week, especially with all the musical kharma swirling about in a vortex. Anyway, my PGA Championship Preview piece is here at Cybergolf and at PGA.com.
And, we’re off…
Tom Doak and Jack Nicklaus’s Sebonack G.C. in Southampton, NY will host the 2013 U.S. Women’s Open. Click here for the Cybergolf.com story. From the article: “It will be the first U.S. Women’s Open held on Long Island and the first time the championship will be conducted in New York State since 1973. Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck hosted...
LA JOLLA – Picture a wintry classroom in New England, thirteen small desks in an oval around Mr Littwin, my British Literature teacher. Eight foot fluorescent tubes burn their cold, white light overhead. Dusty blackboards line the walls. All eyes fixed on Mr. Littwin and a respectful hush descended. We were waiting, and he was ready with a challenge...
No, I’m not part of the Writers’ Strike! You’re getting re-runs because Jeff Shelley over at Cybergolf picked out a few of his favorite pieces that I wrote this year for a loose sort of year in review retrospective. Happily, he picked some of my favorites too. So in no particular order: Golf, Love and Sponge Cake – The U.S. Open Day 2 When the...
Woo Hoo! The nicest guy in golf, Cybergolf’s Jeff Shelley just won the 2007 Distinguished Service Award and will be honored by the Northwest Golf Media Association Oct. 22 at the annual NWGMA Tournament and Banquet at The Plateau Club in Sammamish. Amazing! Jeff is also co author of Championships and Friendships, reviewed right here. Rock on honorable one...
This is a good read. Jeff Shelley, you rock.
Two bits of golf news today: First, Liberty National, just across frpm Wall Street in New Jersey got their wish and landed the 2009 Barclay’s tournament. Many of the old guard mourn the loss of Westchester from the schedule, but hey, the PGA gets much closer to the deep pockets of Wall Street. Follow the money. I reviewed LibNat (as she is affectionately...
Jeff Shelley of Cybergolf wrote this great article about how when Tiger doesn’t play an event, the event suffers financially.
Geoff Shackelford addresses the same concern in a piece where he quotes Gary Van Sickle.
Here’s the van Sickle article in full. Gary is dead on target. The tournament was built on the bones of other, more pedigreed tourneys.
Remember when I went to [name of city deleted:P] to play golf? Cybergolf runs the story here.
Yes. Every word was true.
Meatballs. For breakfast????? You gotta be kidding me.
By the way, every chump, lunkhead or dingbat calling Phil a phony and citing that reedonkulous GQ article about him being secretly hated or having some dark side, is eating a supersized helping of crow after Phil gave tons of cash to the daughter of Conrad Dobler and declined to take credit for it or answer question. Phony, my eye. Phil is exactly what I said. A good...
Montego Bay, Jamaica            The U.S. rode a 17-4 singles surge to power their way to a 27-11 victory in the Inaugural Pro Team Golf League US vs. Canada team golf event. San Antonio’s Anthony Rodriguez slammed home a stunning fifteen foot putt on the 7th hole to secure a 3&2 win over Canada’s Dustin Risdon and tally the five points...