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The Health Benefits of Playing Golf Regularly
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 […]
Halfway Home – U.S. Open at Chambers Bay
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 […]
Parked In Overdrive
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 […]
A Lonely Walk
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 […]
Play Where The Pros Play
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 […]
Three Ways To Avoid Golf-Related Injuries
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 Golden New Era
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 […]
A Very Fine Player
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, […]
The Best Laid Plans
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 […]
Front 9-Edition 11
1. This weekend at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, 48 year old Steve Stricker missed his first cut on the PGA Tour since 2012. The remarkably consistent Stricker had gone 36 events since missing his last cut which was the longest active run on the Tour. Although only a part-time player who has chosen […]
Heir Jordan
It is both premature and unfair, to anoint Jordan Spieth as an all-time great player. His greatness will evolve over a period of time and is much more likely to happen if he doesn’t carry the excess baggage of unreal expectation. What we can safely say is that Jordan Spieth has had a great beginning […]
Golf’s New Master
Jordan Spieth etched his name firmly into the annals of Augusta lore in the first two rounds at The Masters. His opening round of 8-under par, 64, was the second lowest score in Masters history. When he followed that up with a 6-under par, 66 in Friday’s second round for a two day total of […]
