We’ll observe a day of silence for one of our favorite bloggers, Tom Kirkendall of Houston’s Clear Thinkers. Tom lost his mother, Margaret Kirkendall late last week. Tom posted a beautiful tribute for his mother written by his brother Matt. take some time to read it, post some comments, and send a prayer out to our compatriot in the blogging...
I think we have a winner for funniest video of the year: Texas Rockers Bowling For Soup have a hilarious tribute to Howard Stern Show’s Ba-Ba-Booey – Gary Dell’abate – throwing one of the worst first pitches ever.Â
He actually would have missed the broad side of a barn. Heck, he threw it behind the guys taking pictures!
GARDEN CITY, NY – Fifteenth-seeded Roger Hoit turned in a dominating performance in the first two rounds of match play of the Travis Invitational, defeating defending champion Michael Kelley, and two-time winner George Zahringer by a combined eight holes. “I’m exhausted,” he gasped as he sunk deeply into a chair. “They are two of the...
GARDEN CITY, NY – Garden City Golf Club truly was an emerald ‘neath the blissful skies Friday morning, as the sun shone as if it had just been born while the golfers contested the stroke play qualifier for the 99th Travis Invitational. Birdies were the coin of the realm as fifteen of the sixteen championship flight qualifiers shot level-par 73 or better...
Thank you to the McDonough Scholarship Foundation for graciously extending the invitation for me to speak to them on golf design at their yearly meeting and scholarship awards dinner. My talk, entitled “How to Read a Golf Course,” will discuss great architects and their design concepts, but will also be the kickoff event on my own spring and summer...
Congratulations to Rafi and Jeannette Cabrera! They eloped to Hawaii and got married on March 13th.
If you shout, shout for joy!
If you cry, cry tears of happiness,
If you lie, lie in each others’ arms,
and when you fight, fight for love!
Welcome to the Honor Roll!
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...
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...
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...
Talk about the greatest blessing Christmas could offer, Cybergolf’s own Jeff Shelley – a direct descendant of Percy Byssche Shelley and Mary Shelley – became a grampa today. Here’s the announcement: “Elliot Michael Nelson, the first son of our daughter Erica and her husband Mike, arrived at 4:45 p.m. on Christmas day in San Francisco ...