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.
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...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – In light of the two hour and forty minute shuttle ride from the media hotel to the golf course – a whopping 22 miles – From the home office in Murfreesburg, South Carolina here we go… 10. Campaign for President 9. Film the next Quentin Tarantino epic 8. Catch up on your “Game of Thrones” marathon on HBO 7. Walk...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – He’s a mad scientist, he’s the Boris Karloff of golf courses, he ruined your scorecard, hid my car keys, busted Roger Clemens’s no-hit bid in the bottom of the ninth, kicked over the lantern in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, was the lone gunman behind the grassy knoll, conquered Asia on horseback with an army of...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – This week marks not only the first major championship for Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course, but its first professional stroke play tournament period. Only time will tell if it will become a staple of the PGA Championship’s informal rotation, but with a seaside setting, cunning Pete Dye design strategies, no clear pre-tournament...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – Usually when PGA Championship time rolls around we hear endless repetition of the PGA of America’s mantra for the event – “Glory’s Last Shot.” I’ve never been a huge fan of that slogan. I think it actually dumbs down the importance of the tournament. After all, it is a major golf championship. It...
JF: We hear some interesting things happened while you were building Kiawah Island? PD: Oh I got plenty of stories! Everything happened to us trying to build that golf course. Back then it was owned by Landmark and Eddie Vossler, (you remember him, he won a lot on the PGA Tour), and Joe Walser. They owned PGA West, La Quinta, and Oak Tree – I’ve built 10...
So my preview for this year’s PGA Championship will not only be another hilarious laugh-a-minute romp with Kiawah Island course architect Pete Dye, but will also be in the PGA Championship program! Here’s a taste: JF: We hear some interesting things happened while you were building Kiawah Island? PD: Oh I got plenty of stories! Everything happened to us...
The PGA Championship will be upon us before we know it, and that means one of the best golf stories of the year – the club pros. Twenty of them will get slots on the year’s final major, an honor which pays glowing tribute to the ethos of all golf.. Kelly Elbin, director of communications for the PGA of America sums it up perfectly: “Not only are...