BETHESDA, MD – Dan Jenkins sums up the situation with his usual sparkling wit: “Five hours into the U.S. Open and Tiger has yet to make a bogey.” As usual Jenkins is lampooning, indeed skewering the broadcast media for their addiction to ratings, casual eyeballs, and train wrecks. The biggest buzz of the tournament so far is “Tiger’s not...
The U.S.G.A. announced minutes ago that Shinnecock Hills will host the 2018 U.S. Open. The announcement was greeted with excitement by the media and golf industry. Shinny as it is known to its friends will host its fourth U.S. Ope. and third since 1986. It also hosted the second ever National Open in 1896. Here is a list of all future U.S. Open venues: 2012 –...
People always ask me what I mean when I say “This is reedonkyulous!” Well the video below is a perfect example! This is just flat-out frightening on so many levels:P Oh well, no one can claim that golfers are too stiff anymore. Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan, Rickie Fowler, and Ben Crane mix Halloween and April Fools Day – and set of every dork alarm in...
BETHESDA, MD – Once upon a time, just saying the name Congressional was enough to make pro golfers tremble. People still blanche when they recall brave old Ken Venturi staggering up the 18th fairway on the last Saturday finish in U.S. Open history, seemingly one step ahead of the Grim Reaper. “They opened up a coffin and out he crawled,”...
For the first time since he began playing the event in 1996, Tiger Woods will miss a U.S. Open. The announcement came out of Jacksonville via AP reporter Doug Ferguson that Woods will skip the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional due to his Achilles injury, and probably also due to symptoms in his left knee, which has endured four surgeries. Woods tweeted, “Not...
From Tiger Woods himself, via Twitter: “Staying with Mark Steinberg. Total Confidence in him. Excited about the next stage in my professional life. Fond memories of Mark McCormack.” Speaking to Darren Rovell of CNBC – a business network…always playing the angles are Steiney and Tiger – Steiney said: On where he’s going to go…...
Tiger Woods’s “comeback” took two more turns for the worse last week as (1) his agent, Mark Steinberg will part ways with entertainment and sports mega-conglomerate IMG effective June 30 and (2) Tiger once again made himself look like an impenitent jerk when he tried to bribe the golf writers at Aronimink for media day into not asking certain...
Jack Nicklaus says 12 hole courses are the answer to bringing more people to golf. No it’s not. Yes, it takes too long t play a round of golf – but that’s because too many people don’t play the correct set of tees and agonize over every shot like it’s the U.S. Open. Ryan Ballengee at NBC has this excellent rejoinder to Nicklaus. From the...
This weekend, while I’m working on my U.S. Open preview, (and my golf swing), Tony Korologos will be handling live coverage duties on the PGA Tour. Tony is at the Byron Nelson as part of the blogger experiment. Check out his tweets getting posted on scoreboards around the course!
So check in here and with Tony at Hooked on Golf Blog all tournament long.
In 2018, the PGA of America will hold the 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive C.C. in St. Louis – home of Trinity Bantam Jay Williamson as well as several prominent Senior Tour members such as Jay Haas and Hale Irwin. It will be the third time the club will host the event; Gary Player won the 1965 PGA Championship, and Nick Price won his first PGA Championship...
2011 Atlanta Athletic Club, (Highlands Course), Johns Creek, GA 2012 Kiawah Island, (Ocean Course), Kiawah Island, SC 2013 Oak Hill Country Club, (East), Pittsford, NY (Rochester) 2014 Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, KY 2015 Whistling Straits, (Straits Course), Kohler, WI 2016 Baltusrol Golf Club, (Lower), Springfield, NJ 2017 Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC 2018...
The red flashing light at the bottom of the ESPN screen grabbed my attention away from the game: Tiger Woods injured again. What? Did he fall out of bed and break his schlong? Probably, but that shouldn’t shelf him for golf, although after 121 women, he probably wishes he could hit the ball with his dick. According to stories, if he could do that he would have...
Talk about the chickens coming home to roost, now Madison Avenue is confirming that since post-scandal Tiger looks just like pre-scandal Tiger – meet the new boss…same as the old boss – ad companies are justifiably skittish. Nancy Armour of the AP interviewed several execs for this piece. From the article: “He still curses. He still tosses...
I’m working on an article dispelling he myth hat golf needs Tiger Woods. The most refreshing thing I’ve learned? The fans are really fed up with Woods. Despite the papers and the networks being preconditioned and afraid of change – and therefore willing to look the other way when Woods turns into a werewolf, bites the head off a live llama, and...
Ouch…talk about lashes in the public square, PGA Tour player Kevin Na carded a ghastly 16 at the par-4 9th hole at TPC San Antonio during the first round of the Texas Open. Hitting three from the tee – he lost the first drive right…in perdition, declaring it unplayable – he drove the ball in roughly the same place and tried to hack his way out...