On day three, the Charles Schwab Challenge turned into the tournament that every Tour employee, every player, and every fan anticipated and desired. One golfer at...
Comebacks play well across the swells of sports fandom. Give me a story on someone who battled through adversity, and I’ll eat it up. Comebacks offer...
We expected, months ago, that the conversation upon golf’s return would center on Covid-19 and the remaining concerns that surround its potency. We did not anticipate...
This interview took more than a while to consolidate. Have a look at the timeline: Sometime in February: I send an email to Debert Cook April...
In Ontario, golf course architects take respite from their regional work when the snow begins to dust the fairways. Mind you, they don’t go into hibernation....
Editor’s note: This interview was originally posted on BuffaloGolfer.Com, in July of 2014. Its subject is Kye Goalby, a designer, shaper, and bunker-maker for golf courses....
As a lover of language, the word selections of golf’s major-championship bodies intrigue me. They plan to delay, postpone, and suspend their events until a later...
With the impending completion of the final course at Bandon Dunes, the Sheep Ranch, the golf architecture world focuses on the incredible trace that Bill Coore...
As school districts closed in Ohio, and New York shut down major events across the state, the band played on at Sawgrass. The season’s first nearly-a-major...
It’s not the week before a major, but it is the week before the Players Championship. Bay Hill played as much like TPC will play as...
After a World Golf Championship week (which means, little competition elsewhere), things were back to busy as February 29th arrived. Five tours were in action last...
Only two of the world’s featured tours were in action this week, but the golf that they provided was memorable and historic. Not the type of...
The PGA Tour’s Cali Swing came to a close for 2020, while the Champions Tour returned to the continental USA after a stint in Morocco. The...
The PGA Tour played storied Pebble Beach, easily a month earlier than most of us would like to see. Windy and cold are not ideal conditions...
We know that the big game, that bowl of commercials, America’s pagan holiday, got your attention last night. That’s fine. On Monday morning, however, we want...
A day of professional golf, that began with the promise of exciting finishes and worthy champions, joined the rest of the sporting world in its conclusion...
There was a bushel of tournament golf this weekend. There were 6 major professional events, accompanied by 1 notable amateur competition. Almost too much good golf...
The 2nd weekend in January of 2020 marked the return of multiple events during a single week. Granted, one was rescheduled from 6 weeks past, another...
It was never going to be a Presidents Cup like all the rest, for so many reasons. It wasn’t Tom Weiskopf, skipping the Ryder Cup to...
They’ve got us where they want us. We care. In the middle of December, we care about golf. We care about golf course architecture. We care...
Guess who will take a split of the points each of the next two days? That’s absolutely correct! The men in tan and black, and green...
The 2019 Presidents Cup, the 13th playing of the match between an international squad and one from the USA, began in precisely the manner that American...
Rick Newell drew the best golf comic strip ever. No debate. No competition. The four main characters of Life In The Trap, and the troubles they...
My Sunday morning was spent in mourning for over three hours. As a Spanish teacher, I could not imagine what Pablo Larrazabal was feeling. five bogeys...
All that is professional golf, has ended for 2019. No, the Parent-Child and other silly-season events don’t count. Not even that little get-together that somehow offers...
We’re going to give you a preview of next week’s events, before running down the trio of tournaments from last week. In Naples, Florida, the LPGA...
As darkness fell in Antalya, the the first event in the European Tour playoff series came to a conclusion. Light stanchions had been illuminated for two...
In all the years that I have followed Team USA in the Presidents and Ryder Cups, I’ve seen evidence of one coach: Paul Azinger. I’ll circle...
I have a quick take for you: giving advice is the verbal equivalent of backstopping. The idea came out of a back-and-forth with a great golf...
As the winds and the cold reached the northeast USA, the tours kept rolling across the globe. PGA Tour Champions held court in California, while the...
The way she’s playing, Tiger Woods might want to consider using a Team USA Presidents Cup pick on Danielle Kang. Nah, she didn’t win this week,...
With ghouls and goblins on the horizon across much of the world, professional golf marched into the deep autumn with resolve. The European Tour revisited the...
It was a funny thing, to read on various social and traditional media sites, that this week’s PGA Tour event was not quite up to snuff....
October arrived with the winds and rain of a vengeful tempest. Well, it did in my area at least, where I had to run not one,...
As land for golf becomes scarce and precious, as golf courses are repurposed as mixed-use communities, our game endeavors to find a new landscape in which...