***Updated as of 01-08-21*** A Christmas morning avalanche caused “significant damage” to the mid-station “Overlook” lodge of New York’s Belleayre Mountain Ski Resort in Highmont, forcing the mountain to close for the day. No one was injured, but several doors and windows were broken. In excess of six inches of rain and strong winds...
Well golf certainly had a What-the-hell? Weekend! Tin-foil hat stuff meets the PGA Tour. First there was Robert Allenby who is mysteriously sporting facial cuts and bruises after some sort of attack in Hawaii. Allenby missed the cut in the SONY Open and went out to a wine bar for dinner and drinks with his caddie and his friends. The rest of the story is Twilight...
Donald Trump gets a major, (insert joke here). Too bad it’s not funny. In fact, with his outright swoop-in like Rodan purchase of Turnberry, he may get two. This may all be small peanuts if in two years we’re calling him President-elect Trump… AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you that much. Anyway, Trump...
In a victory for rights of at least at the top .01% of female American businesswomen, Augusta National will admit two female members: former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore, who the New York Daily News called, “a trailblazing banker with GOP ties. In the 1980s she was a turnaround artist with Chemical Bank and became the highest paid woman in...
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...
A combined 200 yards…that’s a shocking stat for a guy who own his first Masters in 1997 with a bloated driving average of 323. Tiger hit a Baltimore Chop to the third baseman, then popped to shallow left in two drives yesterday at Doral and still played those two holes 1-over. Woods’s 74 leaves him tied for 34th with Phil, ironically. Brian Keogh of...
At 8:30 a.m. Monday, beachcombers spotted what looked like two pipe bombs laying at the base of the sea wall beneath the 9th green. Shane Bacon and Jay Busbee of Yahoo! Sports have a great diagram and the Bay City/Mercury News have updates. From the article: “A Monterey County bomb squad was dispatched Sunday morning to Pebble Beach Golf Links, where an...
Golf architecture expert Mark Chalfant has started a Devereux Emmet fan club/website/blog. The address is www.devereuxemmetsociety.blogspot.com Mark is a solid historian and a nice guy, so we wish him all the best. Stop by and give him a read, he’s informative and interesting. Emmet, as you know designed many great courses including Leatherstocking Golf Club...
After a second embarrassing vehement altercation in six months with PGA TOUR interview subjects, Golf Channel broadcaster Jim Gray – who was called “pushy” and worse by fellow journalists and broadcasters – has been removed by Golf Channel from this week’s coverage of the Northern Trust open at Riviera Country Club. Gray, who was...
Okay, so it wasn’t the “Golden Shower” he discussed with porn stars, but was it “spitto, spittere” or “hactui splatum?” The old Latin I joke came true for a still embattled and controversy embroiled Tiger Woods as many in the golf World are horrified by his breach of golf etiquette, basic manners, and hygiene. With what looks...
The biggest win in D.A. Points’s life had a little bit of Cinderella story in it…as told by Bill Murray. It was the late ’70s all over again, as fathers and sons recited lines from Caddyshack at each other for an afternoon while D.A. Points carried Carl Speckler to victory while we all intoned in our best stoner voices, “tears in his eyes I...
You might remember all the talk in late 2009 about how it looked like Tiger could run the table and win the Grand Slam of golf, (until a bunch of Ulricas and Jezebels got in the way), but 2011 looks like a great year venue wise for Woods as well. The Masters – Woods plays well at Augusta National. Even with his world in flames and his wife screaming like Nancy...
Sal Johnson of Golf Observer reports that the U.S.G.A. announced that David Fay retires as executive director effective December 31, 2010. It was widely known that Fay wanted to retire at the same time he turned 60 years old, which he did in October. He gave the U.S.G.A. 32 years of faithful, dedicated, graceful service. Mike Butz, the deputy executive director will...
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...
While we don’t have details yet, sad news reached AWITP today. Seminal NYC sports writer and broadcaster Joel Blumberg died yesterday. He was a young guy, and this is a terrible shock to all the golf writing, basketball, and hockey families. He leaves behind his lovely wife Jill and young daughter Miranda.
Please keep their family in your prayers.