The Masters may herald spring to the golf world, but it’s really Christmas in April. It’s golf’s yearly celebration of rebirth – a reunion, a revival and the gold standard of how a championship should be run but, better still, for one week all sports fans will be of good cheer, tradition, altruism and sportsmanship. For that reason alone, the...
Here’s my Masters preview for Cybergolf. I’ll have updates here all week, as well as two more long pieces for Cybergolf, so Happy Masters everyone:) From the preview: “Now, after Woods raced out to three early wins in 2013, the media, desperate for more casual eyeballs, are proclaiming him “back” with a paroxysm of hagiographic hero...
“When something like this happens, the memory becomes completely black to you. You don’t remember a single shot,” said Tom Watson. The eight-time major champion was talking about his disheartening collapse at Turnberry in the 2009 Open Championship, but he might as well be describing the 2012 U.S. team which suffered the most historic collapse in...
Jim Furyk is in position to bag the kitten but let the cat escape. The FedEx Cup, with it’s tacky ten million dollar-ish grand prize, could end this year in an anti-climactic fizzle Furyk wins the Championship, but McIlroy coasts to the money…FUTURE money. Personally I say buy a massive, jewel encrusted trophy and give that out…it’ll be more...
They will represent Europe, but they will feel like they are on an island. When the Ryder Cup comes to Chicago with all its pomp, circumstance, and ethnocentrism, you can expect a rough ride for the European team. This year, all the momentum is with the American side. It’s Chicagoland, a fists-up, bare-knuckle, roughneck of a town perfectly reflected in long...
[Author’s Note: For Barclays week, each day we will profile a different regional public course for everyone to play while in the area for the tournament.] RIVERHEAD, NY – It’s tough to get a pulse on Robert Trent Jones, Jr.’s architectural style since he’s done so much globetrotting and designed in so many different ecosystems. He also...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – When the journalists, broadcasters, and oddsmakers were asking, “Which Tiger Woods is going to show up this week?” they had the right wording, but weren’t asking the right question. When asking “Which Tiger?” most people were wondering whether we’d see the Tiger who won at the Memorial or the Tiger who...
Think this will result in a few jokes at the annual caddie dinner? When the caddie tournament takes place, they ought to have it here so we can watch Ricky Fowler and Pat Perez run like rabbits when it’s their turn to return the favor.
***singing***
Never smile
at a crocodile!
No you can’t get friendly
with a crocodile!…
This year, it’s been a warm winter and a hot spring in more ways than just the weather report. The PGA Tour season has heated up like a microwave, with nearly every big name either winning outright or rounding into shape in time for the Masters. Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald, Bill Haas, Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, Adam Scott and, yes, even Tiger...
As usual, Steve Elling is putting on a dominating Tiger-esque performance (As a writer! Not a porn wannabee!) in the best review of Jaime Diaz/Hank Haney’s book on Tiger, “The Big Miss.” From the article: “9. Toilet humor and Tiger This is not a real revelation, since Woods’ comedy leanings are scatological and sophomoric at best and his...
You’d think all he did was get a DUI or something the way everyone swept 121 skanks under the rug like so much pocket lint. Still, with Hank Haney’s/Jaime Diaz’s book coming out tomorrow, I’m sure there’ll be more than a share of distractions/discussions about things other than swing changes and “tweaked” ligaments. In a Ryan...
On Wednesday the Olympics are expected to do what they always do, greedily chase the last dollar on the table and create a massively expensive venue that will go to waste once the games end. Expectation runs high that R&A Head Peter Dawson has pressured the decision makers to choose the “team” of Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam to build the Rio...
Judging from these photos, Tiger is prepping for the Olympic javelin event with his golf clubs. (The way he putted yesterday he certainly doesn’t belong in the Olympics playing golf, that’s for certain.) Asks Czaban, “Can we get him some straps like on ski poles?” Forbes magazine rated Woods the No. 2 Most Hated Athlete in the World (behind...
The re-coronation of Tiger Woods will have to wait at least another week as unheralded World Number 117 Robert Rock fired a 2-under 70 en route to winning the Abu Dhabi Championship. An erratic Woods, who started the day tied with Rock, fired a sloppy level par 72 to finish two strokes back. Woods still has not won a full-field, regular season event since his...