Jeff Mingay, my Golf Observer colleague and a terrific young Canadian Golf Course Architect has started a new website called…appropriately enough, Mingay Golf! Jeff is a rising star and a super guy to boot. He and Rob Thompson and the rest of the Canadian Club will be integral in my feature coming late this year called “Canadian Golf Awareness...
Sal Johnson wrote a terrific piece explaining the terrible state of the TV contracts and the PGA. The piece is here. Losing ABC is a terrible blow.
Peter McCleery took a terrific look back all he way to the days when I was a lad watching the great tournaments of the 70s and 80s on ABC. The piece is here.
Finally, Lorne Rubenstein looks at Jim Rutledge.
Picture caption: “Mmmm! This IS…a tasty burger! I’ll have a new piece up on Golf Observer soon comparing Tobacco Road to the movie Pulp Fiction. Here are some excerpts: In his book Grounds For Golf, Geoff Shackelford once compared great golf courses to epic films. For example, he called Pine Valley The Godfather and he called National Golf Links of...
FOSSIL TRACE GOLF CLUB 3050 Illinois St. Golden, CO 303.277.8750 www.fossiltrace.com Architect: Jim Engh Par – 72 Excitement Level – 11/12 Diff. – 7/12 Design: five and 1/2 stars (all ratings 0ut of seven) Natural Setting: 5.5 Conditioning – Five and ½ stars Cost – $60 Value – Six stars Overall – Five and ½ stars Tees...