If it’s true, Phil Mickelson should be banned from professional golf. Or is it one gambling degenerate trying to take down his feckless gambling degenerate buddy? Either way, golf deserves answers now. Billy Walters, the casino maven serving time for insider trading who was intimate buddies with pro golfer and five time major champion Phil Mickelson, has outed...
BROOKLINE, MA – What is it Marc Antony said at Julius Caesar’s funeral? I’ll say it now as Phil Mickelson’s self immolation with Saudi oil burns like a proprietary torch over our beloved U.S. Open: The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Mickelson. The Saudi Arabian ruling class...
LA JOLLA, CA – There’s an old adage that should hold true for every United States Open Championship: the golf course is the star. Oakmont, Winged Foot, Olympic Club, Pinehurst…these are names from the oldest Golden Ages of the game. They materialize out of the mysts of history like a dream, enchant us with their beguiling mystery, and then vanish back...
Quick! Someone get Stephen Spielberg on the line! Or if he’s not available James Cameron! It’s a blockbuster, I tell ya! Marvel Studios will need ten Avengers franchises to match it. Bill it as a sequel to Follow the Sun, that Ben Hogan movie. We can call it Over the Moon or The Legend of Baggy Pants or just The Greatest Golf Game Ever Played, but Phil...
MAMARONECK, NY – We were all writing our leads in the media center, and then Winged Foot went from phestival to phuneral in phorty minutes.. Everyone in Mamaroneck – from the media, to the members on the terrace to the massive galleries around the golf course – everyone thought the 2006 U.S. Open was over, the last few holes just a phormality for...
We close out an historic Open Championship with our Open Championship edition of Jay’s Plays. First, rising college star Alexa Hammer came on during the Open to talk about her time at the University of St. Andrews, Phil’s 63, and her thoughts on the Open Championship venues she’s played. Then GNN correspondent Tony Dear came on to talk...
Here it is – the shocking, cruel twist that stole history from Phil Mickelson. Hat tip to NBC for the link.
even so, 63 is a good way to start.
OAKMONT, PA – We’ve had our ledes written for 17 years, but still haven’t been able to use them. “Phinally Phil!” “Phillin’ Groovy!” “Mickel-slam!” – they all lay useless in a seldom used Microsoft Word file I call “The Well of Lost Plots,” where bits of articles that end up on the cutting...