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Notes: Matt Mulcahy and Leon Van Rensburg

Two quick notes before today’s piece. 1. Congratulation to PGA Club Professional Leon Van Rensburg for scoring four eagles in one round. In doing so, Leon set a new course record of 29-33=62 at Reese Golf Club, a daily fee track five miles west of Lubbock, TX. Is this some sort of...

Ernest Hemingway would get the U.S. Open

Mamaroneck, NY Here are snippets from tomorrow’s piece for cybergolf. Ernest Hemingway once wrote that, “the purpose of art is to bring order our of chaos, a tall order when chaos is static and a superhuman task when chaos is multiplying.” Hemingway should have covered...

Seven countries bid for 2011 Solheim Cup

Rumors of the LPGA and women’s golf’s demise are greatly exaggerated as a record seven different European countries have thrown their hat into the ring to host the 2011 Solheim Cup. Perhaps nothing speaks so soundly to the growth of the game with women, and further with women...

Early reports from Winged Foot – Rough!

Early reports from the “kinder gentler” Winged Foot with its intermediate rough to “make the punishment fit the crime” (Mike Davis quote) are showing high scores in the “punishment” department. Two golf writer colleagues of mine report the fairways so...

Tour Announcement – North Dakota

The team here at AWITP is heading out to North Dakota. You read that correctly…there is indeed great golf with North Dakota. Jim Engh designed the 1997 best new course winner Hawktree in Bismarck. Mike Hurdzan just won bext new course for Bully Pulpit in Medora. Finally, at trails...

Happy Birthday Nancy and Mom!

Happy Birthday wishes to two of my favorite women in the whole wide world! First, my mom celebrates her $%#@th birthday. You know how mom’s are all a little strange? Here’s one of my mom’s idiosyncharies…nobody knew when the heck her birthday was. You see, a smudge...

Cybergolf carries my U.S. Open preview piece

Thank to Jeff and Bob over at Cybergolf for carrying my U.S. Open preview piece. Here’s the link. Enjoy. Some short snipets are below… On past U.S. Opens and the setup: “At Oakmont in ’73, Johnny Miller torched the course that Sunday for a major championship record...