Reset: We’ll be providing a lot of course reviews in the next few weeks. We’ll also have a guest article by Maggie MacAlpine, my extraordinary intern, some more architcet interviews, and coverage of the President’s Cup. In the mean time, here’s Tim Rosaforte with some great analysis that…gasp!…Tiger and Steve Stricker have traded...
Happy Birthday America! For a little perspective, I am continuing a tradition I started last year, by reprinting one of my favorite Fourth of July remembrances. For those of you scoring at home, I’ll also celebrate by playing golf with my dad. I have a poem by Harvard University and Trinity College’s own Sophie Wadsworth, poet emeritus. It’s called...
Up at Cybergolf and PGA.com soon.
My pick: Padraig.
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...
I really wish Brian from Awful Announcing would cover more golf, but in his absence, we can settle for Phil Mushnick quite well. In his New York Post column today, Phil attacks the non-sensical, excess of flowery prose that routinely drives viewers crazy. For me, Exhibit A is Dan Hicks, as he tries to outdo himself while gushing nasally over Tiger like a deery...
The bloodletting continues. It’s a shame, everybody really liked them. It’s the incredible shrinking golf and golf media industries.
The Irish might complain that in reviewing an Irish golf book I should be quoting Yeats, not T.S. Eliot, but the man who had the humility to call Ezra Pound Il Miglor Fabbro – the better craftsman – had the perfect quote to describe Tom Coyne’s golfing walk around the entire circumference of Ireland. Only those who risk going too far can possibly...
Tom Coyne walked 1,400 miles around the entire circumference of Ireland, playing every seaside links. It took him fourmonths and lots of chits with his wife Allyson. Enjoy. It’s here. Slante, Tom, and welcome to the Honor Roll. Pull up a chair next to Kevin Cook. From the article: JF: Why do this in the first place? [Walk around all of Ireland] TC: A...
It just won’t work any more. No matter how much he tries to bluster his way out of it, we all see both Donald Fehr and Bud Selig for exactly what they are…crooks. Just the other day, Phil Mushnick exposed a scheme of Selig’s to keep a lid on public outcry at unchecked price gouging regarding MLB ticket sales. He said that now isn’t the...
When it comes to calling out scoundrels, nobody puts a fine point on it like Phil Mushnick. This article calling out Selig and the owners for turning a blind eye, pandering, enabling, and then counting the money is as accurate and gard-hitting as any I’ve seen anywhere. He only left out one thing: tickets are now more expensive because of steroids too. With all...
Golf writers on both sides of the Atlantic rejoiced at the welcome news: sportswriter Art Spander, read eagerly by generations of sports fans across the globe for half a century, has been honored by the PGA of America with their Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. Spander, 70, who has been a fixture for almost fifty years at every major sporting event on Earth...
Here Wie go again. Catfight in 3…2…1…This time it’s the voice of the Great American Sportsman (Hominus Sporticus Americanum), Steve Czaban, versus the venerable double first place GWAA award-winning Alan Shipnuck of SI.com… When it comes to the LPGA, I like what Dan Jenkins wrote about it… The LPGA will soon have: (a) A...
Let’s all give a big 18th-hole-at-a-major gallery welcome to Art Spander who just launched ArtSpander.com. I’ve been reading him since I was at boarding school.
Hey Art! We love ya, dot com. Marino Parascenzo says to say hi as well. Welcome to the Treehouse. SZee you swinging on a vine at Augusta.
The first time I heard of a sports psychiatrist was in the mid-’80s. My favorite college basketball team was getting hypnotized by one so they might shoot better free throws. It didn’t work. They got housed in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament by one of those “directional schools.” You know the kind I mean – “Southwest...
How would you like to have every program from every PGA TOUR event for the entire year, from Kapalua to the last silly season cash-grab? What if you also could have had every stat you could possibly need, whether it’s for answering that pesky trivia question or for handicapping the field for a tenner or quid wager with Paddy from Doonbeg ? But wait...