I’ll be on assignment covering the U. Maryland golf course’s 50th anniversary gala and the golf team reunion tomorrow, so I’ll take today to wish a big happy birthday to Tony Korologos of Hooked on Golf! Tony is one of the founding fathers of golf blogging, one of the ancient crew. He’s been around for the first hole-in-one at Ballyneal, the...
There have been numerous, high profile, public complaints about Tiger Woods’s club throwing and swearing lately. During the British Open I personally heard two F-words and my intern, a lady, saw an “SOB.” I’ll just line up the articles for you to read them: First, Rick Reilly has some choice words for Woods’s choice of words. From the...
Two good articles: First, Hank Gola ia a great friend to golf and our staff. Here’s his new blog. Second, Golf Digest has this story about how Bivens is out, and the only open question is resignation or firing. I’m warning you right now, they might repeat the same mistakes if they don’t reject all of Bivens’s inner circle for a successor. They...
The U.S.G.A. has an important message for everyone going to this year’s U.S. Open: have a great time, but be considerate and respectful to the players or be gone. “The New York crowd is always a special crowd, with great energy, and excitement is great, but it’s one thing to be knowledgeable of the game and good golf fans…and I know we’ll...
OK this is scary how close they are: Everyone’s favorite ESPN anchor and all around good guy Scott Van Pelt: …and rapper MC Frontalot… Oh wait…did I get that right? Which one’s which again? Oh, darn it:):)  I never can remember! Hey Scott, I didn’t know you were on tour with Lars and Schaffer the Darklord! Why didn’t...
Bad news: according to the Sports Business Journal – which is the only sports industry business journal you need to read, U.S. Bank “declined to exercise a three-year option beginning in 2010, so this is the sixth and final year of the bank’s title sponsorship of the Milwaukee event.” Croak said that the tournament “could not go on...
With all the excitement of the Masters winding down, and the golf world having a fun, laid back, “me time” party at Hilton Head for the Heritage, I’m going to take the day off, and just thank Tony Korologos of The Golf Space for having the vision to run this network the way a great network of websites should be run. Tony’s talent as a web...
Golf Architect Tom Doak once told me in an interview that he thought people should speak their minds more often. “Amen” to that. As James Fenimore Cooper wrote, “Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.” I love it when some...
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...
Are you watching ESPN? This is what 20+ year men in the sports industry have to say about rowdy crowds: From the article: Question 1 from Dave A split second after Phil Mickelson hit his final tee shot Sunday, a spectator bellowed: “Get in the water!” Should that guy have been ejected from the grounds, or is that acceptable behavior in this day and age...
Atta boy, Gary. Get after those price gaugers…especially in a recession. $158 for us, less than halfcfor locals? Not on our watch. Cross Melreese off your list in Miami.
So even though Tiger “only” shot 71 today at Doral, the tournament has some great story lines other than the man Dan Jenkins calls Elvis. Jeev Milkha “the other” Singh is tied with Retief Goosen, Phil Mickelson, and one more player at 7-under 65. Padraig Harrington, Camilo Villegas, Sean O’Hair, Andres Romero, Luke Donald, and Jim...
Just because rich people spend too much for golf, the politicians think they can paint every golfer as being as wealthy as a limousine liberal. Dan Jenkins’s satire about how golf may be singled out do to its perceived opulence and decadence would be hysterical, but for it’s also true. We are beset on many sides by knee-jerk haters who wouldn’t...
The bloodletting continues. It’s a shame, everybody really liked them. It’s the incredible shrinking golf and golf media industries.
Thank goodness Phil Mushnick has the courage to debunk the myth that golf was boring without Tiger Woods. The British Open, PGA, and Ryder Cup were the furthest thing from a dreamless sleep. To the contrary, they were riveting drama.  Just because I player is on the European Tour doesn’t mean he isn’t exciting, you know. Tiger overdose syndrome (T.O.S...