I had the great pleasure of playing Colonial last winter just after Keith Foster’s terrific changes to the course were completed. Click here for the article.
I had the great pleasure of playing Colonial last winter just after Keith Foster’s terrific changes to the course were completed. Click here for the article.
So after all the crying, yelling, accusing, posturing, and denying, Floyd Landis admitted it. He admitted he was every bit the lying, no-good steroid cheat we knew him to be. Fox News and Sports reports that Landis decided to firebomb. If he’s going down, so are the rest of the cheaters. He’s forgotten that nobody likes a snitch, but he must feel he has...
The Daily News and New York Post report on the details – sans names – of Dr. Galea giving out Actovegin and HGH. At least 23 pro athletes — most of them NFL and MLB players — are suddenly petrified. “ESPN has now obtained documents relating to Galea out of Canada, and while there are no names in the documents, this is the kind of thing...
God bless us every one, a nice guy finished first. Tiny Tim Clark, whose “legs are too short so I use my head,” as he once said at a U.S. Open, won the arguably “fifth major,” as his 5-under 67 captured the Players Championship by one shot over Robert Allenby. Third round leader Lee Westwood closed with a dreary 74, allowing Clark, who fired a...
Tiger Woods repeatedly denied to the press that he was parting ways with swing coach Hank Haney – “Hank and I talk every day, so nothing’s changed,” Woods said. “According to the press I’ve fired him five times by now.” – but Hank Haney is gone. Waggle Room reported the news late last night. As usual, Ryan Ballangee is...
Tiger had a few poignant observations during his pre-tournament presser for the Players. Congratulations to Laura Hill on getting to moderate the discussion with the assembled media, (and by the way break a leg – that’s good luck – to Beth Murrison when her turn comes at the U.S. Open). “Q. How different has this comeback been for you than the...
It was 1978. Loud plaid and big hair were fashionable, disco music battled KISS on your radio dial, and a peanut farmer who couldn’t keep the loyalty of his own Cabinet was President of the United States. Politically, America was gripped by a crisis of confidence and uncertainty. Golf, however, was prospering. It was the age of Nicklaus, but unlike the flash in...
Tiger Woods needed a late charge to rally from a double and three bogeys early to finsh the first day of the Quail Hollow Championship with a 2-over 74, nine shots behind leader Bo Van Pelt, who opened with a 65. Playing military golf all morning – left-right-left-right – and splashing several balls in the water, Woods’s clearly rusty long game...
Outstanding news for fans of golf course architecture: Mike Strantz’s redesign of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course will stay in the rotation for the AT&T through 2014. The other courses in the rotation are Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. I love what Jack Nicklaus said about Pebble vs. Spyglass…”when I play Pebble Beach...
Arms raised in exaltation and the pines ringing with the cheering, a victorious Phil Mickelson, The People’s Champion, closed out the 74th Masters with his second consecutive 5-under round of 67 and donned his third green jacket. The victory washed away the major disappointment from his 2006 U.S. Open collapse at Winged Foot, and brought the focus of the PGA...
Some news and notes sidebars: After the world made parody video after parody video, including this hilarious one of his mom saying what we all wanted to, Nike has pulled the Earl Woods ad. Nike head werewolf Phil knight liked the ad saying it got everyone talking…yeah, the same way they would if you wore your dirty wifebeater to church./ Just because we were...
As if the news for Tiger Woods design wsn;t bad enough last week when porn-star/stripper/pay-for-sex girl Joslyn James (or Veronica Siwik-Daniels if you prefer) revealed emails/texts from Bryon Bell of Tiger Woods Design which purportedly show him assisting Woods with his trysts with James, the NY Times reports that the depression gripping the country in its iron...
Soooooooooo…the lugnuts running the grisly shuck called the “Tavistock Cup” tried to bully a journalist – and the president of the Met Golf Writers. It seems that the Tavistock Cup wouldn’t let Ron Sirak of Golf Digest cover their non-event because he wouldn’t wear a shirt of one of the teams and cowtow to the event’s gross...
Ari Fleischer might have realized the job is impossible: all the kings horses and all the kings men won’t be able to put the facade that was Tiger Woods together again. That’s a good guess as to why he’s already gone from Team Tiger: he put a plan in place and now implementing it is up to Steiny, but don’t look for a happy ending to that story...
This week we have the “Transitions Championship” at Innisbrook Copperhead Course. Nice name, Timmy. Ranks right up there with “Waste Management.” Brandijg Department? Clean up in the Commish’s office, please! In three weeks at Augusta we may see the Transgressions Championship, but that’s a story for another day. No, today we get a...