This year, it’s been a warm winter and a hot spring in more ways than just the weather report. The PGA Tour season has heated up like a microwave, with nearly every big name either winning outright or rounding into shape in time for the Masters. Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald, Bill Haas, Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, Adam Scott and, yes, even Tiger...
The re-coronation of Tiger Woods will have to wait at least another week as unheralded World Number 117 Robert Rock fired a 2-under 70 en route to winning the Abu Dhabi Championship. An erratic Woods, who started the day tied with Rock, fired a sloppy level par 72 to finish two strokes back. Woods still has not won a full-field, regular season event since his...
If it’s the day after Thanksgiving, then it must be time for our annual Jazzy Awards to start the holiday season! As usual, we kick off with the Turkey of the Year, where we celebrate the ludicrous, lunatic lunkheads and lugnuts that have ruined the sports year. As always, we do this feature in conjunction with our buddy and colleague Tony Korologos of Hooked...
Though Rio 2016 and the International Golf Federation were expected today to possibly announce the finalists for the name of the architect selected to design the golf course for the 2016 Olympics, sources say that all 29 bids were preliminarily rejected and no announcement is forthcoming. Some of the biggest names in either golf or golf design, including Robert Trent...
Yesterday, the R&A announced what we already knew – The Old Course at St. Andrews will host the 2015 Open Championship. My guess is Royal Troon for 2016…it’s been absent since 2004 when Todd Hamilton bunted his way to victory over Ernie Els. Here are your future Open Championship (British Open) venues: 2012 – Royal Lytham & St...
After sending a twisting, long-distance, double breaking putt towards the cup, the PGA of America left itself with just a tap-in, so allow me to do the honors: the PGA Championship is not “Glory’s Last Shot,” but “Glory’s Best Shot.” Make that small change and watch the slogan catch fire like a hit song by U2. Nobody gives a...
It’s the Miguel Angel Jimenez workout routine, (cigar and stripper pole not included). As Steve Czaban would say, “This is wrong…very, very, wrong!!” It is also…wait for it…completely reedonkyoulous!!”
FOREST HILLS, NY – Golf is at a crossroads right now, but none of the issues it faces are as lethal as the scaremongers would have you believe. Sure rounds are down, costs are up, and American players haven’t won a major championship in six tries. Nevertheless, with a little patience, wisdom, and foresight, golf will do what it has always done best...
So this is what Darren Clarke does for an encore. The last time we saw Clarke, he was riding off into the sunset after leading the 2006 European Ryder Cup team to victory. Only a few short months after the death of his wife Heather, a breast cancer victim, there he was going 3-0, inspiring everyone around him, European and American alike. It was a virtuoso...
BETHESDA, MD – The lightning blinded the eyes of all the spectators with its burnished reflection of the sun off the shaft of Rory McIlroy’s hybrid. We first heard the “Thwack!” as the clubface spoke its single word, and then the golf ball soared skyward, waving to Snoopy 2 as it cruised by on its way to the 10th green at Congressional Country...
BETHESDA, MD – Once upon a time, just saying the name Congressional was enough to make pro golfers tremble. People still blanche when they recall brave old Ken Venturi staggering up the 18th fairway on the last Saturday finish in U.S. Open history, seemingly one step ahead of the Grim Reaper. “They opened up a coffin and out he crawled,”...
Everyone knows we laid Seve to rest yesterday, but the sports writing world also lost a true great yesterday, Bill Gallo of the New York Daily News. We’ll have one day of radio silence to mourn them both: Seve the swashbuckler and Gallo the gallant. See you in Heaven someday. Save room in the foursome for me at Valderrama, and I’ll get you on the Shore...
Great…just great! Charl Schwartzel won the Masters. I don’t even know how to spell “Charl Schwartzel.” I’m not even sure he knows how to spell “Charl Schwartzel.” My spell checker is working overtime warning me to correct it. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Every casual fan will mis-pronounce it, which is good...
Well we didn’t need Julian Assange or any other subversive web-site to get the milquetoast news of a couple of quiet, warm dweebs battling it out as Captains at Medinah for the 2012 Ryder Cup. Golf Channel reports that Davis Love III, one of the smarter guys out on tour, but also a remarkably stoic fellow, is the overwhelming favorite to be named U.S. Captain...
No he’s not a towel-headed terrorist out to jihad his way into Dan Jenkins’s next novel. No he’s not some dude in disguise playing hooky from work. He’s paying homage to…wait for it…Miguel Angel Jimenez! (Can’t spell major without MAJ.) Jay Busbee at Yahoo Sports has the full story. I guess Jimenez, like Monty and Leonard...