Tag: Golf School Blog
The New #1
With her win at the LPGA Founders Cup yesterday in Phoenix, Stacy Lewis became the #1 ranked women’s golfer in the World. It has been the most remarkable of ascendancies. Lewis was diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 11 years old. As a teenager, she had to wear a back brace for 18 hours a […]
The LPGA Tour-These Girls Are Good
The LPGA Tour has made a remarkable comeback in the last 3 years. Since the Tour dismissed heavy-handed and unpopular Commissioner Carolyn Bevins in 2010 and replaced her with Mike Whan, the renaissance has been in full swing. In the early days of 2010, the Tour was on life support as they lost one event […]
A Good Walk Spoiled
When world #1, Rory McIlroy, walked off on the 9th fairway during the second round of the Honda Championship last Friday, he committed one of professional golf’s most cardinal sins. He quit. A huge no-no. He had just hit his second shot to the ninth green into the water and was already 7-over par for […]
Anchors Aweigh
On Sunday afternoon, PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Finchem, announced that the PGA Tour opposed the proposed ban on ‘Anchoring’ putters. “I think the essential thread that went through the thinking of the players … was that in the absence of data or any basis to conclude that there is a competitive advantage to be gained […]
The Long and the Short of it
The controversial decision of whether or not to allow or disallow long putters continues. As things stand the arbiters of the Rules of Golf, The Royal and Ancient (the R&A) and the United States Golf Association (the USGA) have imposed a trial period ban for a new rule that would outlaw a stroke in which […]
Singh-ing the Blues
Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) have been at the forefront of most all major sports for the past few years. The use of PEDs has been epidemic in Major League Baseball, the NFL and Cycling and is certainly a hot topic in several other sports. Golf has stayed largely out of the discussion. Until now. Hall […]
Knock Knock
If you keep knocking on the door, sooner or later someone is going to answer. Welcome back to the winners circle, Brandt Snedeker. The hottest player in golf just got burning hot. Snedeker won his fifth PGA Tour title at Pebble Beach this weekend after a remarkable run of consistent golf. After opening the season […]
Down in Dubai
World #1 and present day wunderkind, Rory McIlroy played his first tournament of the year at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. McIlroy shot a pair of 75’s and will not be playing on the weekend, making this one of those rare occasions that he will miss the cut. He was paired with former World #1, […]