HAVEN, WI – Derek Sprague, Kerry Haigh, Pete Bevacqua, Allen Wronowski, Suzy Whaley, Julius Mason, and all the rest of the PGA of America brass must like the music of jazz great Billie Holiday. How does the old song go? “I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places…that this heart of mine embraces…” It will indeed be familiar courses...
My piece breaking down the future PGA venues and highlighting the absence of the Trump Bedminster banners from the tournament is up at GNN.
Photo credit: BarStool Sports HAVEN, WI – Tiger Woods’s PGA Championship press conference wasn’t over for five minutes before every alert on my cell phone and computer started going off: Twitter, Facebook, text messages, I think the only thing that didn’t ring was my LinkedIn account. The Internet was ablaze, discussing my question to Tiger in...
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Here’s the link to my article breaking down Tiger’s joke answer, then real answer to the question. We’ll also have a review of the future PGA venues and an article about things to do in Wisconsin this weekend for the PGA.
[Editor’s Note: This article also appeared at Golf News Net.] It was all set up so perfectly. Jordan Spieth, the kid with the iron will, the steely nerves, the Hogan stare, the Texas-tough pedigree, the Hollywood good looks, the smooth, savvy presence with the media, once-in-a-generation talent, and the aplomb to not let all the hullabaloo distract him from the...
My first assignment as a correspondent with the Golf News Net will be a combination of just about everything I’ll be covering for the magazine. Besides wall-to-wall coverage of the 97th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, we’ll be running 10K through the University of Wisconsin campus, visiting Wisconsin’s great outdoor music venue Alpine Valley...
Great…just great. The PGA Championship is coming to Kiawah Island in 2021…which means we aren’t! Seriously, with only a two-lane road to get cars on and off the island, it takes two-and-a-half hours to get to and from the course every day. That wastes our most valuable asset…our time! I think I’m going to try to jet pack in and...
We have a new Tiger. Like Woods, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy beat all the best golfers in the World while they were at their best at the 96th PGA Championship. In doing so he turned Valhalla Golf Club into TPC Anytown with a blistering 16-under, 268 aggregate, winning back-to-back majors to close the season, and claiming his fourth major overall in the last...
It’s been the talk of the Tour for a while now; the PGA of America has formed an exploratory committee to see whether the PGA Championship could and should be held offshore. It’s an interesting idea. Some foreign writers complain about three of the four majors being in the U.S., and although I was reluctant to embrace the idea at first, the more I think...
I’m all for quirky golf courses, but there’s “Quirky Interesting” and then there’s “Quirky Weird,” and although it’s a fine a line between the two, you know the difference when you see it. It’s unmistakable. Sometimes just a matter of millimeters, like the difference between a beautiful woman and a plain one, or...
Of all the times for the PGA of America to announce the latest venue for their flagship event, they pic the day the U.S. qualifies for the Knockout Round of the World Cup! It will be nice to go back to S.F. – and you can bet I’ll be playing Olympic Cl;ub and having a burger dog while I’m there! Hey USGA! Aren’t you due for an Olympic Club U.S...
Donald Trump gets a major, (insert joke here). Too bad it’s not funny. In fact, with his outright swoop-in like Rodan purchase of Turnberry, he may get two. This may all be small peanuts if in two years we’re calling him President-elect Trump… AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you that much. Anyway, Trump...
Dear Trey: Congratulations to you Page, Mike, and Fish on another stellar Fall tour and, in particular, on another excellent Halloween show. You guys totally killed it! It was both fun and interesting to see you perform so many new songs on such a special occasion. Here’s my best wishes to the four of you that the new album is a tremendous success, and I look...
“You can have Heaven, I’ll take Bermuda…” —Mark Twain and now, very probably, Adam Scott SOUTHAMPTON, BERMUDA – Punctually at seven o’clock local time, one hour earlier than mainland U.S. EST, the last rays of the setting sun shone upon the pink walls of the Southampton Fairmont Hotel with a final golden flash before vanishing...
Long Island’s Bathpage…err…Bethpage Black will host the 2019 PGA Championship and 2024 Ryder Cup – get your ear muffs and mud-proof hiking boots ready now, there’ll be a run on those items later. Here are all the announced PGA Championship and Ryder Cup venues: Future PGA Championship Venues 2014 Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, KY 2015...