Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted to everything and the kitchen sink yesterday. Let’s look at some more things for which he admitted responsibility: 10. Yellow, red and pink golf balls 9. Plot to cut off country’s supply of Pro V-1s 8. Yelling “Tiger Akbar!” (Tiger...
Lamar…who knew? They just won their second event in a row, the Jim Hackler Invitational hosted by Coastal Carolina. Some polls have then 6th in the country and those that had them at 11th may boost them into the top 10 with little concern for criticism. Coastal Carolina, ranked...
I like how Steve Czaban said “Hey! That’s not shiny side up, rubber side down!” This was brilliant. Crash, roll over, cross the finish line upside-down (upside-down!), flip back over, burst into flames. Cut! That’s a take, print it! NASCAR is seeing...
Richard Oliver of the San Antonio Express News has this terrific article on the state of the Tour, the Tiger effect, the popularity of the FedEx Cup with the players. Great stuff, Richard. See you at a tournament soon.
***UPDATE 03.11.07 18:30*** Orlando Sentinel Article is here. Fox Sports and the AP report PGA Tour player Arjun Atwal was engaged in a street race in which John Noah Park, the driver of another car crashed and died. According to the article: No charges have been filed against Atwal, the...
Golf and rock and roll frequently work well together. Granted, they are not meant to be fused at the hip or married at the altar. Quiet, solitude and relaxing commune with nature are the essential therapeutic attributes of the game. Nevertheless, like a great rock concert, golf can also...
Three short bits today: 1. Tim Finchem announced that Tiger new tournament will be a limited field invitational. Finchem said cryptically: Now there’s a couple of reasons for that. One is prestige of the event. The other is, even though it’s snowing today, it’s quite...
As the old agage goes, in New York City the idea is not to find the great $60 steak, but to find the great $16 dollar steak. Well did I ever find one of the best values in town for Mexican…yes, in-deedy (or should I say Holy Frijoles?) Meet Gonzalez y Gonzalez, a corner-of-Broadway...
Who says there aren’t golf gods? Who says that the kharmic wheel doesn’t reward the virtuous or that nice guys will finish last? Mark Wilson called the most piddley two-stroke penalty on himself and was forced into a four man playoff. Why a two stroke penalty? Camilo Villegas...
Travis Smith, a gifted player for the Ball State University golf team was tragically killed in a traffic accident earlier this winter just a few blocks from the Muncie, Indiana college campus. As a true freshman, Travis played in eighteen competitive rounds for the Cardinals, including...
Remember when I went to [name of city deleted:P] to play golf? Cybergolf runs the story here.
Yes. Every word was true.
Meatballs. For breakfast????? You gotta be kidding me.
Sal Johnson of Golf Observer found a particularly interesting factoid between the stats in his prep piece on the Honda Classic: Did you know 9 of the last 13 winners of this tournament…played on your quintessential palm-lined, water soaked Florida-typical course…have been...
Thomas Levet throws his putter in the lake…and not out of joy!
David Barrett, my colleague over at Golf Observer won the Golf Writers Association of America award for Internet writing. His piece discussed Michelle Wie’s record against the men on the PGA Tour.
Way to go, David! See you in Pittsburgh!
This is interesting. I did not know that Tom Watson went his whole life..up until this weekend…without winning a golf tournament in Florida. The greatest links player the world has seen since Harry Vardon himself may not have found the aerial, stick the pin, penal layouts as...
I’ll be covering the college golf tournament hosted by Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish fame the week before the Masters. We’ll have reviews of the fantastic course, Mike Strantz’s fabled Bulls Bay in Awendaw as well as interviews with college stars, review...
***UPDATE*** Holy smokes are O’Hern and Woods having a donnybrook! O’Hern up FOUR HOLES…a lead I told a colleague was “insurmountable normally in match play” and now Woods looks to exact a nasty revenge…he’s still down one with five to play...
So everybody crowing about how the “ghosts of Winged Foot” were forever exercised has egg on their face. Oh…and by the way, eveyone who says “the ghosts of Winged Foot still haunt him” is just talking to hear themselves talk as well. Here’s what...
Sal Johnson is a genius – you have to see the AMAZING photo he found of Mike planting the Hinkle Tree at the 1979 U.S. Open. While I have the floor, to dispel a myth, Mike Strantz never worked on Tom Fazio’s terrific designs at World Woods. I know it looks that way, but...
Geoff Shackelford, my colleague at Golf Observer slams the recent changes to Riviera. Here are some excerpts: But is the architectural demise really that surprising? After all, the Fazio Design group has a consistent track record of showing little or no interest in classic architecture...
Czaban wrote the best tribute to long time PGA Executive George Burger.
Enjoy.
Remember the article I wrote here? About how the Chargers were right to keep Marty Schottenheimer? Scratch that last. Egos got in the way. Well, now Marty is free to go to some other horrid franchise with a cultural footprint of losing and save their bacon. Quick! Name the...
So big tip of the hat to Golfchick for finding a fascinating piece noting that a new world record hole-in-one was recorded at the 18th hole at Ko’olau in Hawaii. While the distance is listed at 448 yards, the short cut Bret Meson took was surely shorter as he carried to cross...
By the way, every chump, lunkhead or dingbat calling Phil a phony and citing that reedonkulous GQ article about him being secretly hated or having some dark side, is eating a supersized helping of crow after Phil gave tons of cash to the daughter of Conrad Dobler and declined to take...
It’s great to see Phil in the winner’s circle again, but his comments that “Winged Foot made me a better driver of the golf ball” missed the point entirely. The issue at Winged Foot was not that Phil drove the ball poorly, it wasn’t his drive that killed him...
So which countdown to the end was more bittersweet, the marking of time until Phish’s final concert in Coventry, Vermont in 2004 or the countdown to the final Harry Potter book is released at the stroke of midnight on Saturday July 21? Nationwide Harry-mania will go from the normal...
OK first things first. I am NOT an equipment geek. I never go for the flavor of the month, the latest gizmo, or a shortcut “guaranteed to shave ten strokes off my game.” I’m a Luddite just like my dad. I remember him one summer at the Concord Hotel decades ago playing...
I’ll be reviewing the Buckeye Putter by Troy Puckett himself of Cayman Golf, the genius behind the teardrop design, Golftini Women’s apparel (my female friends that play are gonna LOVE me after THIS Valentine’s Day! Flowers and perfume…Hanae Mori, you know...
Boy, Joni Mitchell was right… Don’t is always seem to go you dont know what you’ve got till its gone… I was singing these blues last month when my home laptop hard drive kicked the bucket and…get this…the company to which I gave my backup to load my...
Normally I’m a New York Post sports guy through and through, but this time Hank Gola from the Daily News gets the award for the best expert analysis and breakdown of the entire event: On the Colts’ second possession, Manning began a game-long trend. When the Bears were in...