BETHPAGE, NY – This is a Cinderella story that reads not only like a fairy tale, but also like one of Clive Cussler’s “Dirk Pitt” spy stories, the espionage novels newly-minted U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover loves so much, that he reads three or four of them in a week. Indeed, Glover not only came out of nowhere as a storybook sectional...
…from Cybergolf last week: BETHPAGE, NY – As his head hit the pillow last night, his thoughts swirled, and the Cimmerian fog of sleep ebbed and eddied in his mind, Ricky Barnes had to be more than just restless. He had to toss and turn worse than the girl in the old fairy tale, “The Princess and the Pea.” Yesterday ended dismally for him...
First, my piece on Ricky Barnes’s awful night’s sleep last night.
Then my second round recap.
As we go to press, Lucas Glover just bogeyed, and David Duval just birdied to give us a 3-way tie for the lead at 3-under.
***update*** at 7:10 play was suspended until tomorrow at 7:30
My latest Cybergolf article. Enjoy.
Above, the 18th at Southern Hills in Tulsa is a better finishing hole than 18 at Bethpage. Closing the Deal BETHPAGE, NY – Golf writers from across the globe are uniformly falling all over themselves to vilify Bethpage Black’s short, dictatorial 18th hole as one of the worst finishing holes in major championship golf. But what should a truly great 18th...
Thanks to Ryan Ballengee of Waggle Room – an important resource for you during this U.S. Open – for today’s excellent interview:
BETHPAGE, NY – Mike Weir only hit 7 fairways, but shot a 6-under 64, needing a mere 25 putts to lead the first round of the U.S. Open. Swede Peter Hanson fired a 66 to trail by two. David Duval thrilled his fans with a 69, recalling the glory days of his 2001 British Open win, but then bogeyed 2 of his first 3 holes to drop back to 1-under as we went to...
BETHPAGE, NY – Had I been sitting down, I surely would have fallen out of my chair at the question: “So, Rees, is this going be the easiest U.S. Open in years?” It was a moment that woke you up with a thunderclap. It was why I love covering sports: you’re right there at the firing line in the heat of battle thinking and reacting to...
I’m sitting next to Jeff Neuman in the media tent this week, (good ol’ david Barrett is on my other side), and Jeff and I engaged in the old time honored media center tradition of trading pieces. He’s going to have an amazing piece for tomorrow…no you;re not getting a spoiler alert, you’ll just have to tune in to RealClearSports.com...
BETHPAGE, NY – Let’s start with what we know – the U.S.G.A. will not shorten the U.S. Open. “The U.S.G.A. is firm on this, that we will not determine a national champion until we play 72 holes,” affirmed U.S.G.A. vice president Jim Hyler with steely conviction. After that, everything is up in the air because of more than an inch of rain...
BETHPAGE, NY – Frank Lloyd Wright once wrote, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” What the man who became famous for designing Marge Simpson’s hair didn’t tell you was that if you tip the world over on its other side, everything loose lands at Bethpage State Park for the U.S. Open. Because...
Cybergolf has my first piece of this week’s U.S. Open:Â In a New York State of Mind.
Golf course design piece coming next.
Thank you, Sal Johnson.
And after a hair-raising, teeth-grinding, 90-minute commute, we are live from the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black.