Cybergolf has my first PGA Championship piece here.
I’m off to walk nine holes with Tim Clark, Steve Underwood and posse. Meanwhile, here’s a snippet:
“We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese.
In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how tough Whistling Straits’s fearsome Straits Course played. Golf architect Pete Dye was castigated every bit as vehemently as he was when both Sawgrass and PGA West Stadium course opened. “Screwy,” “unfair,” “carnival golf,” and “ridiculous” were some of the more polite, printable public comments.
Cut to 2010, however, and the players’ opinion of both Dye and the Straits course have mellowed into acceptance, even respect.
“Nobody does deception and strategy better than Pete Dye,” explained 1997 PGA champion Davis Love III. “When you first see a Dye course, you might think it’s a wild and crazy thing with no rhyme or reason, but if you have played St. Andrews or the other great courses of the U.K., then you understand what he’s doing. He’s taking the great design tenets of St. Andrews, Scotland and Ireland and just putting his own spin on it.”
Oh, and I got some face 2 time with John Daly, who was showin’ off some slammin’ new kicks.
