The mid-west’s best ski and golf resort is getting even better. Both Golf Digest and Golfweek have published their recent top 100 lists and awards, and, once again, Minnesota’s Giant’s Ridge has risen in the rankings. A member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and its president in the organizations 50th year, 1995-96, Arlington...
TOWN OF ERIN, WI – No less a personage than nine-time major champion Gary Player himself said that, “the long bunker shot is the most difficult shot in golf.” How fitting it is then, that the 2017 U.S. Open was essentially sealed by Brooks Koepka with one of the most exquisite played in the recent annals of the tournament. Clinging to a one shot...
HAVEN, WI – “I once got my ass kicked in Wisconsin!” moaned Harold Ramis’s character in the movie Stripes. So did Dustin Johnson five years ago. (Metaphorically! Metaphorically!) But DJ did the A-K-ing today, getting some measure of revenge for his debacle five years ago at the finish. As we go to press, he leads the PGA Championship by one...
There’s rock-n-roll, football, baseball, museums, and great public golf at Erin Hills. Come take a look at all Wisconsin has to offer besides great major championship golf at the PGA Championship.
[Editor’s Note: This article also appeared at Golf News Net.] It was all set up so perfectly. Jordan Spieth, the kid with the iron will, the steely nerves, the Hogan stare, the Texas-tough pedigree, the Hollywood good looks, the smooth, savvy presence with the media, once-in-a-generation talent, and the aplomb to not let all the hullabaloo distract him from the...
You know you’ve got a great girlfriend when she turns to you and says, “I want to play a Pete Dye course!” That’s what my new girl did yesterday evening as she perused the yardage books and scorecards on my nightstand, and it made my day. But once I got over the elation of learning that my girl has serious golf street cred, I thought, where do...
On a Monday night in October 2006 Arizona Cardinals head coach Denny Green cemented his legacy in sports infamy with a tirade for the ages. His Cards had just blown a gargantuan lead to the Chicago Bears, and in his post-game press conference, he raved like a madman: “The Bears are who we thought they were! They are who we thought they were!” he fumed in...
ON THE COURSE “Langford wasn’t obsessed with length, especially off the tee – I don’t think there is truly a “forced” carry off the tee on a Langford course,” notes Phil McDade. “The tee shot merely introduces you to the hole. Yes, you can choose either the tiger’s line off the tee or tack your way around the golf...
Thankfully, the Links Course survived its early, troubled history largely intact. I say thankfully because, the design of the course closely resembles the work of perhaps the most revered and important bloodline in golf architecture: C.B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor, and Charles Banks. Several startling coincidences lead many golf architects and architecture experts to...
We have a saying in New York City: Anyone can find a great $60 steak, but the real trick is to find the great $20 steak. The same is true of golf. Anyone with money can play an overpriced, under-designed resort course that caters to posers impressed by brand names and slick marketing. Also, anyone can plunk down $50 at an awful municipal dog track that a city...
The Dubsdreadful Course at Dog Hill is getting slammed…and not by me, although I was ahead of the curve here and here… Steve Elling of CBS Sports has the Tour players taking Rees Jones and Cog Hill to the woodshed, where they belong after wasting over $6 million in a vain attempt to draw a U.S. Open. From the article: “Two years ago, the owner of...
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 the...
Here’s the 24 hour delay on my favorite piece of the week. Man, the three-shot lead curse strikes again… HAVEN, WI – It’s 7:50 p.m. The sun is setting is setting on Whistling Straits, but third round leader Nick Watney is still on the practice range hitting balls. Most other players are at Stefano’s Italian restaurant in Sheboygan...
I wrote it here at Cybergolf. Watney channels his inner Retief, Dustin at Pebble, blows 3 shot lead. We are tied at the PGA. Meanwhile, that’s my fave piece of the week so far. From the article: “Tonight, Watney sleeps on a three-shot lead, but that may be the most unsafe margin in golf. Retief Goosen was in a similar situation in the 2005 U.S. Open at...
Man, it is brutal covering a tournament that goes start, stop, start, stop. They started the third round with the lowest scores teeing off last on tee 1, and the highest scores teeing off last on tee 10. Those in the middle tee off in between. Got it. Phil and Tiger are on the course as we speak. Meanwhile Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh made moves to finish at 6-under and...