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Jordan Spieth has not played in a tournament since his thrilling victory in the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay three weeks ago. Spieth of course has won the first two Majors of the year, having captured the Masters in April and is looking to do what nobody else has ever done; to win all four […]
1. There are less than 6 months left for players using the anchoring method to putt. Beginning on January 1, 2016, anchoring is officially banned on all professional Tours and R & A and USGA (amateur) events. Most players who have anchored for years have already made the transition to a shorter putter, most notable […]
Do you want to live longer? Then you should play more golf. In recent years, scientists have begun to study the health benefits of playing golf regularly. A longer life expectancy is only one of many ways in which golf can improve one’s health, though it may be the most compelling. Other benefits include a […]
Another one of BGA’s amazing students has hit “the perfect shot”! Jodie Shike Wright was playing at the Telluride Ski & Golf Club, Mountain Village, Colorado on June 22nd with her husband Bruce Wright and two friends. Jodie’s day began well with a birdie on the first hole but then became a day to remember when she […]
When first you see the stark greys and browns which carpet the land that is now Chambers Bay GC, you could be forgiven for thinking that time had transported you back to the Scottish Highlands 400 years ago. Which is precisely the mandate that course architect Robert Trent Jones II had been given when being […]
The season’s second Women’s Major Championship was played this week at venerable Westchester Country Club in New York. Formerly known as the LPGA Championship (Bird Golf’s East Coast Director of Instruction, Mary Mills won it twice), the 2015 version is now named, the “KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, conducted by the PGA of America.” The KPMG […]
It was business as usual for Tiger Woods in Sunday’s final round of The Memorial tournament. Woods went through his regular pre-round practice routine and arrived at the first tee dressed in his traditional Sunday Red shirt and his omnipresent game face. But this was a very different Sunday for the man who once ruled […]
This is always one of our favorite weeks of the year in professional golf, with all the best Women’s players in the world coming to compete at the Stockton Seaview Resort and Spa in the LPGA’s ShopRite Classic. Seaview has been our Northern East Coast flagship site and host to our New Jersey Golf school […]
Author of “The Golfer’s Creed,” David Forgan astutely summed up one of golf’s major drawing points: “Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime in which you may exhaust yourself but never your subject.” Mr. Forgan’s “study of a lifetime” phrase is well understood. Indeed, golf is touted as a “lifetime sport” and […]
A year ago, our founder and CEO, Jay Ewing, was interviewed on the Golficity Golf Show by Frank Fasano. One of the main topics of the interview was the state of the game and in particular the drop-off in interest in the professional game. This was immediately after the Masters that Bubba Watson had won in his […]
At the beginning of the final round of THE PLAYERS Championship, which falls on Mother’s Day, there were 30 players within 5 strokes of the lead. Those players were an eclectic ensemble that included superstars, stars on the rise, and a handful of unheralded players shooting for the stars. The superstars were Rory McIlroy, […]
Some people would say that Matchplay is the purest form of golf. At this week’s WGC, Cadillac Match Play Championship, it proved to be the most unpredictable version of the game. The Match Play this year introduced a new format for the opening rounds. Players were pooled into groups of four and then all played […]