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Dakoda Dowd’s mother succumbs to cancer

Golf Observer has coverage and there is this USA Today article as well. From the article: “Kelly Jo Dowd, a cancer-stricken mother whose dream of seeing her teen daughter Dakoda play in an LPGA event was realized last spring, has died. She was 42. She spent years battling breast cancer, which her family said spread to her bones and liver, and then to her brain...

Remembering Edwin Payne, golfer who died in fall off cliff

Here are more details about the terrible accident that claimed the life of Edwin Payne, who died when his golf cart went over a 75 foot cliff at a golf course in California. Clara, the thoughts and prayers of every golfer are with you and your family. We are sorry for your loss. From the article: “Payne had just teed off from the second hole on the...

Golfer killed when cart plunges off cliff

According to this AP article, “the man teed off with three friends on the second hole of the Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course in northern San Diego County at around 10 a.m. and then got into his cart. The vehicle veered off the concrete pathway, traveled down a 25-foot embankment and went over the edge of a cliff, California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Kerns said...

Golf Punk guys win caption contest – Titleist the bull gets curtain call

Titleist the bull form the Hootie at Bulls bay is going viral! The site of a 2000 pound bull on the golf course is making everybody all over the Internet laugh out loud. The Golf Punk guys threw up the best caption to my picture of Titleist being led back to his post on 16 green. He looks like he’s checking the yardage book! Shaun, GP team…brilliant! But...

Red Fridays!

…and the hooooooooome…of theeeeeeeeeeeeeee… BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE! I love and support our troops. I am proud of them and grateful for their sacrifice. Courage, honor, loyalty, fortitude, valor; is there a virtue they don’t possess? I’m also proud of my country. I think more people should be proud of the country they’ve...

Elsie McLean, world’s oldest hole in one

She’s 102 years old and still plays! Do you need any more proof golf is meant to be the most egalitarian game in the world? Nothing tricky here; just your typical, run of the mill, “play a 100 yard par-3 with a driver and watch it roll in the cup like Mr. and Mrs Havekamp from Caddyshack” shot, that’s all. Cue the audio track:...

Knights charge, ‘Noles Chop, Bull Romps at Hootie at Bulls Bay

AWENDAW, SC -  In a zany day at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Collegiate Invitational, unranked Central Florida and Florida State ran away from the field, while “Titleist” the Bull got loose and scampered around the course  to the delight of the patrons — Their mascot looks like Marvin the Martian from the Bugs Bunny Cartoons.  You might mistake their...