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...
While I prepare some Jazzy Award presentations, here is the list of people who came in second to Tiger Woods at majors. This is a sure bar bet winner for you… THE MASTERS 1997 – Tom Kite 2001 – David Duval 2002 – Retief Goosen 2005 – Chris DiMarco THE U.S. OPEN 2000 – Ernie Els, Miguel Angel Jimenez 2002 – Phil Mickelson 2008...
I have had an epiphany – I want to die like Bat Masterson. I want die at my laptop, working on a story, doing what I love with everything I’ve got. “Jay, that’s sounds great, let’s just hope it’s 40 years from now,” said my friend and mentor. Well I hope you’re right about that. I hope I have many years of great stories...
Here by the sea and sand Nothing ever goes as planned… — The Who — HAVEN, WI – Not to take anything away from Germany’s Martin Kaymer, a worthy champion and a great rising star, but we’ll forever remember the defining moment of the 2010 PGA Championship as Dustin Johnson’s careless mistake grounding his club in a bunker on...
Here’s the 24 hour delay on my favorite piece of the week. Man, the three-shot lead curse strikes again… HAVEN, WI – It’s 7:50 p.m. The sun is setting is setting on Whistling Straits, but third round leader Nick Watney is still on the practice range hitting balls. Most other players are at Stefano’s Italian restaurant in Sheboygan...
I just got off the phone with a former rules official who tells me he would have been aggressive about reminding Dustin about that being a bunker, but that’s 20-20 hindsight. In today’s piece, I call out the broadcast for misleading viewers, but also Dustin, a guy I covered from his college days at Coastal Carolina. From the article: Let’s get...
I wrote it here at Cybergolf. Watney channels his inner Retief, Dustin at Pebble, blows 3 shot lead. We are tied at the PGA. Meanwhile, that’s my fave piece of the week so far. From the article: “Tonight, Watney sleeps on a three-shot lead, but that may be the most unsafe margin in golf. Retief Goosen was in a similar situation in the 2005 U.S. Open at...
As of the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, here are the future sites for the PGA Championship: 2011 – Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course), Johns Creek, GA 2012 – Kiawah Island (Ocean Course), Kiawah Island, SC 2013 – Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, NY 2014 – Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, KY 2015 – Whistling Straits...
Man, it is brutal covering a tournament that goes start, stop, start, stop. They started the third round with the lowest scores teeing off last on tee 1, and the highest scores teeing off last on tee 10. Those in the middle tee off in between. Got it. Phil and Tiger are on the course as we speak. Meanwhile Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh made moves to finish at 6-under and...
HAVEN, WI – You can score anywhere from 68 to 78 at the topsy-turvy Straits Course at Whistling Straits. In benign conditions and softened by the season-long rains, 87 players finished under par yesterday. When the wind howls off Lake Michigan however, the course is fearsome. In 2004 Vijay Singh won the PGA Championship with the highest closing round in...
Today at Cybergolf, I breakdown the key holes at Whistling Straits – the swing holes or “half-par” holes.
I also dodge lightning, drive through fog, and chase around golfers for quotes:)
HAVEN, WI – A wine-dark sky of swollen clouds grumbled ominously with thunder before the heavens opened up and rained bricks and bats on Steve Underwood’s head. It was okay though. He had Tim Clark’s umbrella safely in the golf bag. Meanwhile, Todd Sunderland counted D.J. Trahan’s clubs one last time. Fourteen, everything is fine. So as soon...
My latest piece. Enjoy. A day in the life of Steve Underwood (Tim Clark) and Todd Sunderland (D.J. Trahan).
HAVEN, WI – We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – Surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese. In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how tough Whistling Straits’s fearsome Straits Course played. Golf architect Pete Dye was castigated every bit as vehemently as he was when both Sawgrass...
HAVEN, WI – U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin stood his ground against sports broadcaster Jim Gray of Golf Channel yesterday in a heated, confrontational exchange in the PGA Championship media center. Responding to Gray and Golf Channel’s claims that Pavin had decided to offer Tiger Woods a Captain’s pick should Woods fail to secure an automatic...