Two guys not named Tiger Woods finally stole the headlines from 2013 Masters but it took until the 72nd hole to do it. Australia’s Adam Scott bested Argentina’s Angel Cabrera in a two-hole sudden death playoff after they each birdied the 18th hole, but until then this was the Masters That Begged to be Forgotten – pouring rain, ugly rules violations...
Once again, Cybergolf does a great job with my Masters wrap-up. Also be sure to check out Marino Parascenzo’s work from the tournament as well. From my article: “And for Pete’s sake, Bernhard Langer was even within hailing distance of the lead on Sunday Bernhard Langer? Are you kidding me? Wasn’t he fossilized in amber eons ago? He was...
“If you want excitement, the Masters is the benchmark, it owns the freehold.” – FoxSports Broadcaster Steve Czaban It’s Arnie hitching up his pants, it’s Jack raising his putter in exaltation, it’s Tiger fist-pumping and another improbable shot drops in the Cup, and it’s the pines ringing with the cheering as the newly-minted...
DUCK! PHIL’S GOT A NEW CLUB AGAIN! Phil Mickelson loves to tinker. First it was two drivers, then I was no driver, then it was no 3-wood, then it was 80-degree wedge, (or something like that)…now it’s “Phrankenclub,” a cross between a driver and 3-wood which is supposed to hit the ball out of sight, but not into the rough or trees. Phil...
It’s the 10 most magical Masters of the last 50 years. (BTW – everything this week will be up at Cybergo9lf first, then here on twenty-four hour delay. From the article: 7. Larry Mize in 1987 Remember that poker movie “Rounders?” When Matt Damon says, “If you look around the table and you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s...
The Masters may herald spring to the golf world, but it’s really Christmas in April. It’s golf’s yearly celebration of rebirth – a reunion, a revival and the gold standard of how a championship should be run but, better still, for one week all sports fans will be of good cheer, tradition, altruism and sportsmanship. For that reason alone, the...
Here’s my Masters preview for Cybergolf. I’ll have updates here all week, as well as two more long pieces for Cybergolf, so Happy Masters everyone:) From the preview: “Now, after Woods raced out to three early wins in 2013, the media, desperate for more casual eyeballs, are proclaiming him “back” with a paroxysm of hagiographic hero...
In a victory for rights of at least at the top .01% of female American businesswomen, Augusta National will admit two female members: former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore, who the New York Daily News called, “a trailblazing banker with GOP ties. In the 1980s she was a turnaround artist with Chemical Bank and became the highest paid woman in...
The guys on GolfClubAtlas.com are really good! Tony Muldoon put up this photo, but basically all the guys over there have done a Masterful job – pun intended – of sleuthing out Bubba Watson’s ball flight, especially after the photo that made the rounds last weekend. Basically, a whole bunch of guys over there broke down the location of Bubba, the...
This photo purports to show the absolutely insane ball flight of Bubba Watson’s screaming hook that finally put Louis Oosthuizen away at the 2012 Masters. (Photo from Chris Chappell, blue-line drawing supposedly via MSPaint.exe from Watson’s caddie based on where he thought they were.) Apparently what’s really going on is that this was a bad guess...
Everyone knows that when a new Pope is elected, white smoke appears above the Vatican, a Cardinal joyously announces “Habemus Papam!” (“We have a Pope!”) and then adoring crowds await the new Holy Father’s arrival at the balcony for his first public address as Pontiff. Yet what most people don’t know is what happens behind the...
Cybergolf will run my piece in the morning but here’s a snippet: “Watson’s faith and grace stand in stark contrast to Tiger Woods, who threw clubs, swore, and snarled acidly all week as he sulked his way to a dismal 5-over finish. The comparison is one of sincere value versus insincere value – Woods’s media-constructed image as a crass...
—“With all these geriatrics playing so well in majors, Woods may try until age 70 to pass Nicklaus’s record.” S.I.’s Gary Van Sickle in a conversation with your author— Drinking deeply from the fountain of youth, 52-year-old Fred Couples turned the clock back 20 years with a sparkling 5-under 67 and seized a share of the Masters...
Way to go Jeff Shelley. Rockin’ the Masters and PDQ! The link is here. From the article: “Four-time European Ryder Cup member Miguel Angel Jimenez outplayed Tiger Woods both days, earning himself some ink and telecast time for something other than his R-rated warm-up routine, though that still elicited some laughs from these observers: Golf...
All this nonsense about adding women members at Augusta (which ran long past it’s shelf life when it continued past Wednesday) was bad enough… but when one silly and foolish went so far as to publish the flat out lie that Augusta was founded on the “bedrock foundational tenet of segregation,” that was the last straw. When the New York Times is...