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No Contest
The 2017 Presidents Cup was essentially over after the second of the four days of play. The U.S. team had won 8 of the first 10 points to take a virtually unassailable 8-2 advantage over the overmatched International team at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey. The whitewash continued over both sets of team […]
A Fitting Finish
The season ending TOUR Championship held annually at East Lake Golf Club (which was home to Bobby Jones) is a unique event in many respects. The elite field is the smallest of the year, with only 30 players who qualify, for any officially sanctioned PGA Tour event. It is the last tournament played in the […]
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At the second of the four PGA Tour Playoff events, the Dell Technologies Championship, Dustin Johnson was looking to win his second consecutive and was the leader after an opening 66. Johnson was unable to sustain his superb play but Jordan Spieth who lost to Johnson last week in a play-off stormed into contention in […]
A Sensational Solheim
The 15th edition of the Solheim Cup was held this weekend at the Des Moines Golf and Country Club in Des Moines, Iowa and produced another spectacular show of golf in the biennial tete a tete between Europe and the United States. The European team was captained by Annika Sorenstam while the Americans were led […]
The Longest Mile
Quail Hollow Club, this week’s host venue of the PGA Championship, has always been revered as a course that is universally loved by the players. Last year in a span of only 90 days, drastic changes were being made in preparation for this years’ PGA, the first Major ever hosted by Quail Hollow. Some of […]
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1. The caddy carnage on the PGA Tour continued this week when Adam Scott showed up at the WGV Bridgestone event without Steve Williams. Scott and Williams have had a unique relationship for the last 3 years where Williams would caddy for the former World #1 in the big events only and David Clark would […]
Three Of Four
On 30 July 1889, nine gentlemen met at the home of Mr. J C Barrett and decided to create a Club, named the Birkdale Golf Club. In 1922, the members bought the land (they had been renting until then) and re-designed the course. They hired the firm of Hawtree and J H Taylor Ltd, (JH […]
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Jim “Bones” MacKay, who for the last 25 years has been Robin to Phil Mickelson’s Caped Crusader, has a new gig. After an amicable split from Lefty the world’s most mercurial looper is moving outside the ropes. MacKay and NBC Sports announced a new multi-year deal for Bones to become an on-course reporter for the […]
Top Ten Twosomes
In an announcement that shocked the golf world last week, Phil Mickelson and his long-time side-kick, Jim “Bones” MacKay announced that they had mutually decided to part ways. Both said all the right things in their separate statements but one thing you can be pretty sure about, this was Mickelson’s decision and there was nothing […]
Into The Record Brooks
The host course, Erin Hills, for the 117th U.S. Open is the first course owned by one individual to host America’s venerable national Open. Erin Hills is in Erin, Washington County, Wisconsin about 55 miles north of Milwaukee and was originally opened in 2014. It sits on 652 pristine acres that were once the mid-west […]
I’ll Be All Right
It was perhaps the single worst penalty ever imposed in the history of golf. Two months ago while leading the LPGA’s first Major Championship of the season in Sunday’s final round, Lexi Thompson was penalized four shots for something that she had inadvertently done 24 hours before. On the 17th hole of Saturday’s third round […]
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Tiger Woods announced on Wednesday that he “unequivocally” wants to play professionally again following his most recent back surgery at the end of April. Woods underwent fusion surgery which has apparently finally alleviated all the pain that he was in. It was Woods’ fourth major operation on his back in the last 6 years. Coupled […]
