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...
Cybergolf has my first PGA Championship piece here. I’m off to walk nine holes with Tim Clark, Steve Underwood and posse. Meanwhile, here’s a snippet: “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...
The plane taxied to the terminal zone, cut its engines, and cooled its wings while I hi-tailed it out the door and into ground transport for the ride to Whistling Straits.
While I walk the course and cull a few quotes from players, here’s my Pete Dye interview from PGA.com.
The self-immolation of Tiger Woods continues at a frenetic pace, with little likelihood of relief until at least April 2011. After his third consecutive clueless round well over par, his rude and surly dismissal of no less a personage than Larry Dorman, the writer for the New York Times, is Exhibit A that Woods’s definition of “making my behavior more...
From the press release: “Highlighted by the pairing of 2009 PGA Champion Y.E. Yang, four-time PGA Champion Tiger Woods and 2004 PGA Champion Vijay Singh, as well the traditional grouping of the winners of the first three major golf championships of 2010, The PGA of America today announced the pairings for the first two rounds (Aug. 12-13) of the 92nd PGA...
He may be half 168 years old, but he’s still a lion in summer when it comes to golf architecture. The Dean of modern golf course architects, Pete Dye blends cunning design strategies that beguile pros with artistic flair that bewitches amateurs. His popularity across the globe is unquenchable, despite his reputation for building courses that play hard and look...
Cybergolf has just posted my Pete Dye interview. One week from this moment I’ll be winging west reading James Michener’s Chesapeake, (in prep for the Potomac Cup), while waiting for “wheels down” and the hour drive to the bucolic splendor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin and the PGA Championship. Thank goodness the week won’t be as chock-a-bloc...
Let’s quickly reset the schedule of events, coverage, and articles for the next few weeks: 1. The British Open! 2. My preview and live coverage of the PGA Championship 3. Article on Pasatiempo 4. Atlantic City Country Club 5. Golf along I-84 in the NE corridor 6. Book reviews of Titanic Thompson (Kevin Cook) and Ancestral Links (John Garrity). 7. Stephen Kay...
Now through the magic of surveillance video in the garage at Tiger Woods’s Windemere home, we have, on tape, the final discussion between Elin and Tiger before – torn between an iron and a wood – Tiger crashed into a tree and fire hydrant! Hey, at least he can drive a golf ball 300 yards.
Elin, of course, is the blond:)
Sal Johnson, Dave Seanor, and I put a bow on the proceedings:
CHASKA, MN – A long, slow kiss of a sunrise lit up Minnesota in magical hues. Pale streaks of watery light illuminated the land, first in deep blues and greens, then cheery cherry reds, and then, finally, a glorious gold which made all nature rejoice at being alive. Author P.G. Wodehouse would have called it a morning when all nature called “FORE!”...
The Prairie Home Companion for Golfers. More on Yong-Eun – Y.E. Yang later.
Thanks Minnesota, thanks Julie and family!
CHASKA, MN – Minnesota is the Native American word for “cloudy water.” It fits: Lake Hazeltine, named for Susan Hazeltine, the first teacher in Carver County, is a wide expanse of murky currents, seaweed green and turbid blue. Still, surrounded by tall hardwoods and with the golf course’s 10th and 16th holes hard by the water, it would be...
They have a rough record in this tournament…