I don’t know what a “Notherrn Trust Open” is and it’ll be the Dominos Open by next year anyway. Maybe someone can put a delivery boy hat on Finchem.
Golf Observer reports on Phil’s 62.
I don’t know what a “Notherrn Trust Open” is and it’ll be the Dominos Open by next year anyway. Maybe someone can put a delivery boy hat on Finchem.
Golf Observer reports on Phil’s 62.
Golf writers on both sides of the Atlantic rejoiced at the welcome news: sportswriter Art Spander, read eagerly by generations of sports fans across the globe for half a century, has been honored by the PGA of America with their Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. Spander, 70, who has been a fixture for almost fifty years at every major sporting event on Earth...
Here Wie go again. Catfight in 3…2…1…This time it’s the voice of the Great American Sportsman (Hominus Sporticus Americanum), Steve Czaban, versus the venerable double first place GWAA award-winning Alan Shipnuck of SI.com… When it comes to the LPGA, I like what Dan Jenkins wrote about it… The LPGA will soon have: (a) A...
Here’s a list of all the golf projects that made it into The Porkulus Bill/Generational Theft Act. This is not the change I voted for. $3 million for the maintenance shed at Wailea?! Florissant, Missouri is getting one for $1.1 million. $6 Million for a RENOVATION in Arlington, Texas? How bout this whopper…”Provide additional parks infrastructure...
There should be further updates coming, as the web page is a confused jumble right now. But in a few minutes, they should have the full story. In the meantime, Dustin Johnson has been declared the winner. Congratulations also to Joe Rice, owner of Bulls Bay G.C., (the only private design Mike Strantz ever did), for winning the Pro-Am. Moreover, he won with...
It’s good to see Brian Keogh and Karl McGinty giving us an update on Paddy Harrington and Rory McIlroy. Brian has this story about Paddy’s benign sun spots that were removed recently, but more importantly, some details about Paddy’s Masters prep. Also check in with Brian at Irish Golf Desk. Not to be outdone, fellow Irishman Karl McGinty has...
Ginn Resorts has announced it will end all golf sponsorships immediately, spelling doom to two tournaments this year – one on the LPGA Tour and one on the Champions Tour. From the article: “Ginn still had three years remaining on its title sponsorship contract with the Champions Tour. PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw, who learned of the decision from a press...
78,000 people lost their jobs yesterday across the country. More than half the population of one town in Ohio alone lost their jobs when a plant closed. Across all sectors of the economy, the slide continues to pare away assets and consumer confidence. In golf, the news is just as dismal. The Sports Business Journal reports the PGA trade show will be about 5% in...
How would you like to have every program from every PGA TOUR event for the entire year, from Kapalua to the last silly season cash-grab? What if you also could have had every stat you could possibly need, whether it’s for answering that pesky trivia question or for handicapping the field for a tenner or quid wager with Paddy from Doonbeg ? But wait...
Ouch. Things look bleak. Steve Elling of CBS Sports has this outlook on the state of both the PGA and LPGA Tours. I would be especially worried about the LPGA tour. I also think it’s time for something other than more medal play events. Nicklaus once wrote that team golf was the salvation of the tour. He may have been right. Wouldn’t you pay to see...
Boy, talk about a non-story; they get us all worked up for what was billed as Tiger’s first political speech, and all he did at the Three Day Inauguration Obamapalooza was introduce the U.S. Naval Glee Club. Next, Anthony Kim and IMG are being sued by his old agent, Hambric. Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal is the place to go for all thye...
Two items before Cybergolf published my Colonial in Winter: The Yellow Rose of Texas. First, the Sports Business Journal reports that the PGA has signed a deal with golfbreaks.com for travel services: From the article: “Golfbreaks.com, Europe’s largest golf travel company has become a PGA Official Supplier. Golfbreaks.com work with more than 900 venues...
CBS Sports’s Steve Elling breaks down the new changes to the FedEx Cup, where the top 5 control their own destiny, the next five have a great chance to win, and the last 20 have a shot if they win and players around them falter. From the article: “After two seasons of not-so-grand finales in which the top $10 million bonus was all but clinched before the...
Geoff Shackelford is right, this may be the bravest act of sportsmanship this year. Gary D’Amato’s article about J.P. Hayes DQing himself from Q school after realizing he played with a non-conforming “prototype” Titleist ball is here. What a gentlemen; he didn’t even blame his caddy, even though the caddy wanted to take some of the...
Well there is some good news, his condition has been upgraded.
Cybergolf article here.