Jim Furyk scared the hack out of Fluff Cowan and Slugger White when he – normally Mr. Reliable – overslept and missed his pro-am tee time and was disqualified from the Barclays. His #3 ranking in the FedEx Flop will drop to somewhere between 7-10. Hank Gola of the New York Daily News reports: From the article: Tour rules official Slugger White gave this...
The divorce between Tiger and Elin is final. Doug Ferguson has the best write up of the divorce papers. From the article: “The divorce was granted in Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Fla., about 375 miles away from their Isleworth home outside Orlando. The couple had married in October 2004 in Barbados and have a 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and a 19-month...
…too bad we can’t read it ’cause it’s not on-line! (or I’d have linked to it:) Brett Cyrgalis wrote a solid, well-researched intelligent article on dead courses in NYC by Alister Mackenzie and A.W. Tillinghast to name a few, but the article is only in print today. Rush out and get it, while I go get another copy to give you a few details...
Here by the sea and sand Nothing ever goes as planned… — The Who — HAVEN, WI – Not to take anything away from Germany’s Martin Kaymer, a worthy champion and a great rising star, but we’ll forever remember the defining moment of the 2010 PGA Championship as Dustin Johnson’s careless mistake grounding his club in a bunker on...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – It’s Graeme McDowell who won the 2010 U.S. Open, not Lou Graham, but since McDowell’s win closely resembles Graham’s victory at Medinah in 1975, the confusion is easily forgiven. Like 1975, Championship Sunday dawned over Paradise with the game’s greatest players lurking near the top of the leaderboard. But also like...
Graeme McDowell, wins the 110th U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the first European to do so since Tony Jacklin won the 1970 U.S. Open at Hazeltine National in Minnesota. Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, you are on the clock!
Cybergolf ran my Championship Sunday preview, Another Moveable Feast. We’ll have more pictures soon. In the meantime, enjoy the tournament no one wants to win.
My piece about Phil’s charge yesterday along the cliffs of doom is up at Cybergolf. It’s here, so enjoy it! From the article: “Still, the day and the stage belonged to Mickelson. Many of you never got to see Arnold Palmer, but Mickelson makes a great comparison: a swashbuckling mercurial golfer who made you both live and die on championship Sundays...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – From personal experience, let me tell you that any windy, forested road called “17 Mile Drive” is no place to get lost, but that’s exactly what happened to the biggest names in golf, as the U.S. open leaderboard is left to forgotten major winners from 2003, a couple foreign players who have potential, and more strangers than...
Here’s my latest Cybergolf piece. Enjoy. From the article: “From personal experience, let me tell you that any windy, forested road called “17 Mile Drive” is no place to get lost, but that’s exactly what happened to the biggest names in golf, as the U.S. Open leaderboard is left to forgotten major winners from 2003, a couple foreign...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – It was a weird day, even for Northern Cali. How weird was it? Tom Watson sang The Doors, Jack Fleck praised the Lord, and Tim Clark’s posse was howling. Yes, you read that correctly, Watson tried to sing, Fleck is still very much alive, and Tim Clark has a posse…Tim Clark! I guess Frank Lloyd Wright was correct: tip the world over...
Cybergolf ran my U.S. Open piece where I got to talk with Tom Watson, Jack Fleck, and a real-life Signboy. From the article: “Speaking of fairways and greens, NoCal and underdogs, my next interview was a stunner, a bolt from the blue. As I strode towards the media center exit, notebook in hand intent on finding a Garcia, Curtis or Paddy, an elderly gentleman in...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – In 2000, when Tiger Woods Years lapped the field, broke or tied nearly every important U.S. Open record, and turned our beloved Pebble Beach into flotsam and jetsam in the wake of a yacht insultingly called Privacy, some pundits mistakenly thought Pebble Beach had become obsolete. Those same pundits ignored the rest of scoreboard. 3-over tied...
My first piece from the Open is up at Cybergolf. It’s a hole-by-hole breakdown of Pebble Beach. From the article: “Even though it’s the shortest U.S. Open we play, it’s still getting awfully quick out there,” cautioned Woods, who was civil and obliging with golf questions on Tuesday but surly, rude and more obnoxious than a vuvuzela horn...
Years ago, when the U.S.G.A. announced that each ten years they would celebrate the U.S. Open with a party of special magnificence, a decennial return to Pebble Beach, elated cheers rang throughout the golf world. Beautiful, rugged Pebble has been a national treasure and a crown jewel in the American golf diadem for nine decades. Indeed, when the sun shines over...