We’re taking the show on the road! I’ll be live in Reston, VA for a pre-U.S. Open appearance that will combine readings, interviews, special guests and drinks! The Rio Grande Cafe in Reston Town Center will start rocking at about 7:00 as co-host Nancy Carpenter and I will interview golf sensation Vance Welch and NBC golf analyst Ryan Ballengee...
Golf architecture expert Mark Chalfant has started a Devereux Emmet fan club/website/blog. The address is www.devereuxemmetsociety.blogspot.com Mark is a solid historian and a nice guy, so we wish him all the best. Stop by and give him a read, he’s informative and interesting. Emmet, as you know designed many great courses including Leatherstocking Golf Club...
My dear friend and colleague Hank Gola of the Daily News – by far and away the best golf writer of all the greater-NYC papers combined – went to Venezuala for vacation. Here is his laugh-out-loud assessment. From the article: “I asked the caddy master if it was going to rain all day. “Media hora,” he told me, which means half an hour. It...
Congrats to a great guy who deserves all the best…Ryan Ballangee, formerly of Waggle Room and now NBC Sports! ***Loud U.S. Open eagle-like golf roar*** Ryan is a voice of reason, a terrific researcher, a great golf mind, and a super-nice guy who deserves to be a lifer in golf writing. He’ll have plenty of info, news, and stories for your golf fix every...
He came like a gentle zephyr, charming all the girls and turning everyone’s pockets inside out…selling books that is! Kevin Cook left everyone spellbound last night at his book reading for “Titanic Thompson” – his captivating biopic of America’s greatest proposition swindler, then accepted the 2010 Jazzy Award for the year’s...
Kevin Cook Raises the Titanic The odds on all life may be 6-5 against, but not when Kevin Cook is writing. Then they are the 1-9 in your favor that Titanic Thompson, America’s greatest proposition gambler and swindler looked for in a bet. Cook, the former editor of Golf Magazine and Sports Illustrated scored holes-in-one with Tommy’s Honor, the biography...
Here is the link to Brett’s article about the great lost links of Queens, including Mackenzie, Dev Emmet, Raynor, and Tillie!
NEW YORK, NY – As we reach the halfway point in the year, a tiny little David has the clubhouse lead on a whole raft of Goliaths in the race for the Best Sports Journalism of the Year Award here at A Walk in the Park, but I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s book review season and, right on cue, my desk turned into a scriptorium scene from Umberto...
While I’m writing my U.S. open recap and World Cup knockout stage analysis, tune in to Cybergolf and Waggle Room for more. After that, it’s off to Philly for East Coast Extravaganza, a majoy roller derby tournament with important implications for the regionals and the WFTDA championships. See everyone with more articles tomorrow!
We have a guest article today from Steve Czaban, the sports broadcaster and journalist from D.C. As you recall, Czabe is the genius behind the Potomac Cup, the battle between the best amateur golfers in Maryland and Virginia. Czabe, a 5.3 handicap, entered the 36-hole Virginia State Amateur yesterday. He lasted nine holes. I love his scathing review of…himself...
This year, the 9th annual Golf magazine player poll touches on such topics as Barack Obama, (they hate him), slow play, (Ben Crane…again!), the Tiger scandals, (oh you won’t believe what they have to say!!!), and Phil Mickelson, who gets a resounding vote of support, (so much for that bogus Vanity fair article that unfairly and inaccurately painted him as...
Two bits of news and notes regarding friends of AWITP: Irish writer Brian Keogh is now an author and Tom Coyne has returned from France. Brian Keogh is the star golf correspondent for the Irish Sun and the Irish Golf Desk. As one of the leading sports journalists on not one but two continents – and the son of a prominent sports writer – it was a just...
Tony Korologos of Hooked on Golf just got back from St. George’s, Utah and has a great review of Sand Hollow, one of last year’s candidates for best new public course.
I’ve been working on a longer piece about agent responsibility to not only their client, but the sponsors as well, but Mike Lupica of the Daily News has the same idea I do: It’s about time to hold agents responsible for whatever their role is in pandering, enabling or facilitating bad behavior or steroid use in their clients. Here is Lupica’s...
So whether someone thinks Tiger Woods’s conference was good for his image breaks down like this: Broadcasters: They are preconditioned and afraid of change. They are also beholden to the last dollar on the table. They want TV ratings to be high, and they still need Woods to show up for vanilla comments about nothing after rounds, so they won’t ask any...