Blog

2016 ShopRite Classic: Golf Youth Movement Make More Moves

The 2016 ShopRite Classic at our amazing New Jersey site, the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club, culminated in another thrilling finish. Seaview has two magnificent courses, the Bay and the Pines. The Bay course is a Donald Ross signature design that is a supreme links layout and the venue for the ShopRite Classic presented […]

Read More

From The Ashes Of Failure

Rise the flames of success. One of the few commonalities of all successful people is that they have failed a great many more times than they have prevailed. Golf exemplifies that margin of victory and defeat more than any other sport in the world. In his 20 year prime from the age of 22 until […]

Read More

Back 9-Edition 14

On Thursday, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield voted not to allow women members. Although a 64% majority of the 800 members did vote in favor of allowing women, the vote was a constitutional one which required a two-thirds majority. In a statement the Club said: “The Honourable Company is a members club, […]

Read More

Day Tames Players Championship Offering Different Days, Everyday

What a difference a year makes. World #1, Jason Day, shot an opening round 9-under par 63, to take a two-shot lead at the Players (aka Golf’s 5th Major). That was 18 strokes better than the last time he played at the TPC Sawgrass when he stumbled to a second round 81 en route to […]

Read More

Isn’t It Grand

Isn’t it Grand? Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa has been designated as the first Sheraton Grand resort in North America.  It is welcomed to the new premier tier of exceptional hotels recognized as a heritage resort that offers a true escape and is exemplary in every way, including in architecture, amenities and personal […]

Read More

The Golf Scientist

Bryson DeChambeau may be the most polarizing of all the game’s young stars and most people don’t know who he is. Yet. DeChambeau missed the cut at this weekend’s Valero Texas Open, which was his second start as a professional. In his maiden event playing for money, the 22-year old DeChambeau finished tied for 4th […]

Read More

Spie’ll Be Just Fine: Spieth Down, Not Out

During the past week there has been much hand wringing and teeth gnashing about Jordan Spieth’s Armageddon at Amen Corner. To those who put forward the idea that losing the way that he did will destroy the 22-year old psyche; go read another volume of Freud. To those who have resurrected the notion that Spieth […]

Read More

A Will-Ing Win

On Wednesday’s par-3 contest at the 2016 Masters no fewer than 9 players made a hole-in-one in the only competition that nobody wants to win. That is because no player who has ever won the par-3 event has gone on to win the main event. Jimmy Walker set a scoring record for the par-3, with […]

Read More

Back 9-Edition 13

Read More

A New Day

Such is the uncertainty of head to head 18-hole matches that often times they produce unlikely winners. Although the field is made up of the top 64 players in the world based on the Rolex World rankings, it is rare that the highest seeded players make their way to the final matches.  The 2016 version […]

Read More

All the King’s Men

Arnold Palmer will not be one of the three (with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player) legends hitting the ceremonial opening tee shots at this year’s Masters. Mr. Palmer cites a sore shoulder as the reason he is retiring from the honor and says that he is no longer able to swing as he would like […]

Read More

Front 9-Edition 13

Time flies when you’re having fun and fun-loving John Daly turned 50 on Thursday, making “long John” eligible for the PGA Champions Tour. Daly has won 5 times on the PGA Tour, including two Majors, the 1991 PGA Championship and the 1995 Open Championship. When the relatively unknown Day won the PGA Championship at Crooked […]

Read More