I picked Padraig Harrington Enjoy.
I picked Padraig Harrington Enjoy.
Two of my favorite golf bloggers have posted news updates about their local tournaments. Lawyer Tom Kirkendall’s Houston’s Clear Thinkers blog discusses law, politics, media, and yes golf. With the Shell Houston Open on tap for next week, he previews the tournament quite well, both its history and the golf course. From the article: “After an...
Noted author and Perry Maxwell biographer Chris Clouser and I will be teaming up to do a “Point! Counterpoint!” piece on seven-time major championship venue Southern Hills and 1953 U.S. Amateur host and SH’s nearby cousin, Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, which Maxwell did with Alister Mackenzie, (you remember him…we’ll be seeing...
So Phil blew a four shot lead, but won the L.A. Open at stately, old Riviera, coming from two back to pull it off, and making Steve Stricker’s walk to the range irrelevant. Here’s Doug Ferguson’s story for the AP, via Fox Sports. Meanwhile, Shackelford found a great CBS Sports graphic about how you have the play conservatively on ten. In the last...
There should be further updates coming, as the web page is a confused jumble right now. But in a few minutes, they should have the full story. In the meantime, Dustin Johnson has been declared the winner. Congratulations also to Joe Rice, owner of Bulls Bay G.C., (the only private design Mike Strantz ever did), for winning the Pro-Am. Moreover, he won with...
“Take your bottom lip, and pull it up over your head.” That was how comedian Bill Cosby once said that Carol Burnett described labor pains, but it also depicts how it feels to flush a 4-up lead in golf to the drummer of a punk rock/ top-40 band, but I’m getting ahead of myself. The stars were still bright when Gary Wiseman’s Escalade pulled...
I’m finishing my piece on Dallas Public golf today. Until then, here’s the Colonial piece. Click over to Cybergolf for more pictures. Texas sunrise: the pale, grey light of dawn slowly blossoms into broad, golden beams of sunlight. It’s a new day, and as the sun slips over the horizon to shine a little light on Colonial Country Club...
It’s here. Colonial in Winter: The Yellow Rose of Texas.
Enjoy.
Cowboys G.C. 1600 Fairview Drive Grapevine, TX (just ten-fifteen minutes from DFW airoprt) 817.481.7277 www.cowboysgolfclub.com Architect: Jeff Brauer Wild winds whipped the plane as we made our way to Dallas. That’s meant the golf would be even better, if I were fortunate enough to get to the course. Winds around Dallas often wreak havoc on flight plans...
One of golf’s most graceful courses wins the Jazzy Award for Best Private course this year, a course where tradition, quiet dignity, and altruism are the order of the day. Far from any television towers, gallery stands, and the latest, greatest waterfall ever built on a golf course, but far closer to the egalitarian spirit of the game as envisioned by her...
Coore and Crenshaw’s Colorado Golf Club may host a future PGA Championship. Deets coming out on November 20.
The winter tour will be in Texas and will once again feature rock stars Bowling For Soup as my playing partners. We’ll be hitting Jeff Brauer’s Cowboys G.C. in Dallas, Colonial C.C., Pine Dunes, Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, and others. Deets later. For now, Steve Habel, Cybergolf’s southwest correspondent has this report on Texas PGA and...
As soon as I get the decision, I’ll analyze and post, but this sounds downright asinine to me. A Westchester state court Judge ruled that Winged Foot must close their par-3 sixth hole because the house of the man who lives right of the green gets hit by too many golf balls now that the club removed three trees. On another note, I’m making soem edits to...
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – Here’s four words I’ll bet you never thought you’d hear uttered joyfully on a golf course: Thank goodness, it rained. To be precise, it poured. It rained bricks and bats. The lightning crashed and the thunder rolled. Two holes opened up in the roof of the media tent, sending journalists scrambling like rabbits for...
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – The sky darkened without warning, but that happens here with alarming frequency. A drowsy, lazy-hazy day of summer – a mellow day more reminiscent of the easy-going south than the hardscrabble rust belt of Michigan, – suddenly turned into roiling darkness. In an instant, the sky turned from glorious gold and bold, bright...