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 ...
And while the shephards lay in their field an angel of The Lord appeared to them and they were afraid. But he said “fear not for I bring you glad tidings of great joy. For today in the city of David a savior is born and he will save you from all your sins.” Then, suddenly the sky was filled with a great light and host of heavenly angels appeared and sang...
Unless you are a fan of golf course architecture, you might not know George Bahto’s name. After all, he’s never built a multi-million dollar major championship venue, he doesn’t have an enormous firm with projects world-wide, and he hasn’t been seen on network television talking to broadcasters about his latest course. Nevertheless...
Brave Spirits: A Toast to the Troops with Every Glass From sea to shining sea, good-hearted Americans, from Bangor to Baja and from Seattle to Sarasota, still live by one simple code: honor God, love your family, and defend your country. Despite what the New York Times, Code Pink, and a small but overly vocal minority of protesters may say, most Americans are deeply...
The Wall Street Journal’s John Paul Newport has this great article on how golf showed how to beat hard economic times. John’s long pieces in the journal are a throwback to the days of Berfnard Darwin. Put him on the top of your nightstand.
Geoff Shackelford is right, this may be the bravest act of sportsmanship this year. Gary D’Amato’s article about J.P. Hayes DQing himself from Q school after realizing he played with a non-conforming “prototype” Titleist ball is here. What a gentlemen; he didn’t even blame his caddy, even though the caddy wanted to take some of the...
What a great idea! Here’s the first in a series of articles written back in the ’80s by Herbert Warren Wind. This one discusses Cypress Point and Seminole. Next month: Merion!
While the golf world waited, fingers crossed, some good news may hopefully, finally be here. Seve’s third operation to remove a mailgnant brain tumor has been called a success. From the article: “The sports star’s third surgical procedure on a cancerous growth was completed without complications. Madrid’s La Paz hospital said the lengthy...
Karl MacGinty has some thoughts on the why the Irish Government should bail out the Irish Open. Sounds good to me, that tournament rocks. Wanna bet Padraig Harrington agrees? Of course, one of my favorite all-star writers, Mike Vaccaro has this throwaway classic about Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price, who rocked my beloved Red Sox to sleep. Man, come all...
Something a little different today. The master of the revels despises us as peddlers and purveyors of bombast, But my father was granted the first license to open a public theatre company from her majesty, the Queen. And he drew from poets the literature of the age. Richard Burbidge – Shakespeare in Love Literature – that’s a good word to describe...
One of the great lions of the business sector passed last week. He is survived by Charles R. and Cristina F. Cordova, Andrew J. and Roberta V. Cordova, Sara Cordova Pujols, Maria del Carmen Cordova, and Flora Serrano. With Chuck’s blessing, I have reprinted the eulogy he read for his dad. Via con dios, Carlos. Thank for taking such great care of...
Happy Birthday America! For a little perspective, I have a poem by Harvard University and Trinity College’s own Sophie Wadsworth, poet emeritus. It’s called Fourth of July and it’s in her award winning collection called Letters From Siberia. Sophie’s great-great-great-grandmother, Roxanna Lord Pray, was dragged away from her beloved Berwick...