First, New York City finally approved RFPs for the Ferry Point project, a planned 18 hole public golf course located in the Bronx on a site not unlike Bayonne across the river in New Jersey. Don’t get your hopes up, though. Between the Parks Department wasting money on improvements at city public courses and the massive amounts of money and time wasted at...
I’m just going to write what everyone else is thinking…Orlando is the tackiest city on the eastern seaboard. With no beach, no truly great golf, and nothing but Disney, Disney, Disney for two hours in every direction, why do we do this to ourselves every year? This is the golf show of the year. Every gadgeteer from all across America has club...
Here’s Tim Rosaforte’s piece.
Although many at Erin Hills are crossing their fingers, and rightfully so, I’ll throw out Oakmont for consideration…who’s with me?
Four bits of golf news: One of my favorites, Karl McGinty writes about Faldo and the European Ryder Cup team. Lorne Rubenstein discusses Woods’s dominance over everyone and notes that today is Tiger’s thirty-second birthday. Hey while we’re at it, I’ve been re-reading my Strunk and White: The Elements of Style and want to do my part to...
From Jeff Shelley’s Cybergolf story. By the way, get ready for another Doak masterpiece; Rock Creek Cattle Company opens in rural Montana later this year.
So get this for confusing…the good people at the American Lung Association have put together a “Golf Privilege Card” for good discounts at golf courses and driving ranges around the country for free rounds, 1/2 price rounds, free carts (yuck…), range balls, etc. So far so good, right? Here’s where it gets confusing… How much does...
My friends at Awful Announcing would file this under “randomness,” but American golfer Bryan Saltus dedicated his victory this weekend at the inaugural Cambodian Open to the Grateful Dead. Saltus obviously didn’t Feel Like a Stranger on the Shakedown Streets of faraway Siem Reap, Cambodia, knocking the competition down like Jack Straws with the Eyes...
This morning, the sports world mourns the death of Redskins safety Sean Taylor, who died from injuries suffered from a gunshot to the leg, severing his femoral artery. He was 24. Washington D.C. Fox Sports correspondent and broadcaster Steve Czaban should have more on his radio show (6-9 a.m.), and on his website. According to reports, Taylor was shot by burglars who...
Here’s another really good site for golf travel: Golf Vacation insider. They are well traveled and solid writers. They are a little more mainstream and cater to the resort crowd, but they also have a good background in golf course design. Check them out.
From Finchem’s memo: PGA TOUR Anti-Doping Program The Policy Board has approved the PGA TOUR’s Anti-Doping Program. The TOUR’s primary objective is to have a credible program that will aggressively deter the use of any prohibited substance. The key elements of the program include extensive player outreach and education; a comprehensive list of...
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...
Thank goodness for ESPN ohmbudsman Le Anne Schreiber. “What’s an ohmbudsman” you ask? Back in college an ohmbudsman was the champion of the rights of the students. When they had nowhere else to turn, he or she was their voice, their ersatz attorney, their supporter and their short-cut through beaurocratic red-tape. It happened by luck that...
Ain’t he a peach! Congratulations Glenn and Allison! All of Charleston should be woo-hooing for the future tour player (or is that left handed relief pitcher!) Does he look Italian or what?! Can you hear him now? The first words will be “Hey! Googalabanze! Gimme a supuh size fresh mootzadell, capagool on sem-o-line. And gimme da real provolone, not that...
Caddy for a cure allows you to bid on the chance to caddy for a well known touring pro at a PGA event. Names include Retief Goosen, Davis Love III, Padraig Harrington, Jim Furyk, and Adam Scott among others. Charities benefited include the Fanconi Anemia Research Foundation as well as the charity’s of the Tor stop and player in question. Go to the website...
Thank God Phil Mushnick had the time to slam this because I’ve been too busy to aim for the eyes. He struck right between them. Issue: We watch ESPN for sports information…they sell Pirates of the caribbean to us…in the middle of the broadcast. The fused a recap of Pirates-Rockies with movie clips with a straight face. There were more movie...