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…
Sal Johnson, Dave Seanor, and I.
CHASKA, MN – I’m typing today with a badly sprained wrist wrapped in an ice pack. I’m staying here in Minnesota with the coach of local high school girls’ tennis team, so we went to hit some balls. I know she has a competitive streak a mile wide, but I came into the net anyway. She tried to give me what Roger Clemens calls “the bow...
Cybergolf ran my latest piece profiling Club Pro Kevin Roman of Atlanta, GA via Utica, NY. Kev beat the bloody snot out of me as a junior golfer. Oh well, that’s two pros that mopped the floor with me! (The LPGA’s Moira Dunn is the other, for those of you scoring at home.)
Welcome to the Honor Roll, Kevin!
CHASKA, MN – People who dislike me will love today’s piece, because during my morning jog I ran face first into a fruit stand. I’m staying at my friend Julie’s house in a charming small town outside of the Twin Cities and, while out for a run, happened to pass one of the countless storefronts selling the bountiful harvest of the area’s...
CHASKA, MN – Tauting machismo and unbelievable length, Hazeltine National, tops out at 7,674 yards, the longest major in golf history and featuring the longest par-3, par-4, and par-5 in the tournament’s history. Rumor has it -through the U.K.’s Daily Mail, that Tom Watson took one look at the yardage and tore up his invitation. But does the added...
CHASKA, MN – This is always one of my favorite sidebars. Kids say the darnedest things! Everywhere you looked Tuesday, there were tousle-haired boys with beaming faces, teens in braces and “Gopher it!” t-shirts, and girls in barrettes and Nike dresses, all cheering on their favorite players and clamoring for autographs. Let’s see who the kids...