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...
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...
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!”...