PITTSFORD, NY – Jason Dufner put the entire PGA Championship – players, fans, and tournament – in so much of a sleeperhold, the entire golf world must have looked like they were Dufnering. “This is boring,” groused several sports writers as the final round plodded to a bland, anti-climactic conclusion, and they were right, but you...
Here’s my closing piece from the PGA. Great week with Marino Parascenzo and the rest of the gang. Also big ups to Jeff Shelley and Tony Dear of Cybergolf. Enjoy the piece and see everyone from National Golf Links of America and the Walker Cup and a killer golf course near you.
It’s the worst place to host a professional golf tournament because you’ll never rein in the crowd. Bathpage – the wet, soggy mildly overrated public favorite of New Yorkers and loudmouth fans is expedcted to be named host of the 2019 PGA Championship and the 2024 Ryder Cup. Bad idea. They never shut the hell up at Bethpage. Worse still, dumb bunny...
PITTSFORD – What is it James Taylor likes to sing? —It does you no good to pretend, You’ve made a hole too big to mend, It looks like now you lose again, So call on your Rainy Day Man— They’ll be singing that song in Rochester for many decades to come because mighty Oak Hill – the place where once only ten men finished a major...
Tune in to Cybergolf all week for Marino Parascenzo and I live from Oak Hill…err Soak Hill. Meanwhile,everybody do the Dufner…just make sure no one trips over you as they walk by:) Article here. From the article – Dufnering – the idea is to look like you smoked too many bong hits at the Grateful Dead show, but actually haven’t had any at...
Here are all the 63s in golf’s majors so far: Masters Nick Price, 1986, third round (9-under) Greg Norman, 1996, first round (9-under) U.S. Open Johnny Miller, 1973 (Oakmont), final round (8-under) Jack Nicklaus, 1980 (Baltusrol), first round (7-under) Tom Weiskopf, 1980 (Baltusrol), first round (7-under) Vijay Singh, 2003 (Olympia Fields), second round (7...
PITTSFORD, NY – Have you ever ridden in car called a “Ford Fiesta?” What a nightmare! One of these is my rental vehicle for the week, and it handles like a skateboard with doors. The pavement feels like I’m riding on pebbles and marbles, and every time the wheel moves the slightest bit there’s this sickening “here we go!”...
First piece of the week is up! It’s what the players are thinking about Oak Hill. I get quick interviews with Furyk, Poulter, Rory, and others, it was a solid start. Enjoy.
Attention PGA of America! This is Carlos Danger. What? That’s taken? Ah, crap…okay… This is Commander Media! I have your trophy! And you can’t have it back until my evil demands are met. Comply by Sunday at 5 or your trophy will be sent to a commune of smelly hippies to be melted down into cheap bracelets to be sold in parking lots of Disco...
You meet a wealth of Great Friends of Golf, (yes, capital G, F, and G), when you become a golf writer, and one of those is the PGA of America’s Bob Denney. Classy, kind, intelligent, and genuine: when people ask me why I like hanging out with golf writers and golf people as much as I like hobnobbing with my entertainment law practice clientele, a guy like Bob...
I almost typed “Rockchester” by accident…must have been a Freudian slip because despite the hellacious winter weather, it’s a great town. My PGA Championship preview will be up at Cybergolf in a day or two and we’ll have our usual Tuesday through Monday coverage there with the twenty-four hour delay here, along with extra sidebars and...
Now that Winged Foot has been selected to host the 2020 U.S. Open, can an announcement that Oakland Hills will return to the informal U.S. Open rota be far behind? We reported hints that Oakland Hills could return here and at Cybergolof. The South Course, famously dubbed “The Monster” in 1951, will host the 2016 U.S. Amateur, often seen as a gateway...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – So this is what Rory McIlroy does for an encore, reduce another reputedly unconquerable golf course to mere flotsam and jetsam en route to a second major victory, this time the 2012 PGA Championship. Europe’s proper rejoinder to Tiger Woods turned Pete Dye’s supposedly Ram-tough Kiawah Island Ocean Course into a Tonka toy and ran...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – I’ve heard of sleeping on the lead but this is reedonkyoulous. Rory McIlroy finished his rain-delayed third round of the 2012 PGA Championship at 10 a.m. this morning and before teeing off again at 1:46 p.m., took a power nap in the clubhouse. This has to be the among the most bizarre examples in of the golf history of sleeping on the...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – On a day that saw 30 mile per hour winds, sideways rain, and the highest scoring average in PGA Championship single round history, Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods surged to 4-under and a tie for the lead with rounds of 3-under 69 and 1-under 71 respectively. Both stand at 4-under (140) for the tournament, tied with Carl Petterson who followed...