Must See: Manuel De Los Santos Film
/Impressive film, impressive man.
When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
"He went out doing what he did, just supporting the community and helping out."
/There were a few awful golf cart-related accident stories crossing the wire today, none more depressing Morgan Cook's recounting of the Monday death of Gregory Lypps, 41-year-old father of four who was playing in a charity event at Pala Mesa Resort.
Read More"Seventy-two holes of strokeplay, we have that one after the other. You need an alternative.''
/Thanks to reader Matthew for Martin Blake's story on Jean Van de Velde, who is one of the uh, headliners, at this week's Surf Coast Knockout. You may recall this is the event aimed at bringing to golf a version of Twenty20 cricket by featuring a Sunday shootout of 32 players playing six hole matches until there's a winner. Hopefully our friends in Ponte Vedra are monitoring this event.
Read More60 Minutes Gives Billy Walters The Full Golf In America Treatment
/Philanthropist sandbagger Billy Walters made it on 60 Minutes which treated the former AT&T Pro-Am hustler like the segment was airing on Golf Channel's Golf In America.
Read More"What he liked to do the most was play golf and spend time with his son."
/A positively dreadful story out of West Palm Beach, where 35-year-old golfer Lataurus Randall had just come from visiting his uncle in the hospital to play a late afternoon round at Deerfield Country Club with his golfing buddy.
Read MoreHickory Golf Tournament For Pros!
/All the info is at USProHickory.com. They're playing a 1922 Bendelow design in Tampa.
Read MoreOnly In LA Files: "Once we were able to get them charged up, we were able to rent them out."
/Rick Orlov, Daily News and Daily Breeze staff writer, on the less-than-seamless Jan. 1 handover of the L.A. City course cart concession that leaves the Kishi family after 40 years for an uncertain future, though likely one involving new carts at some point to replace the fleet manufactured during the formative years of the Reagan administration.
Read More"Like a relic of an earlier time, the club stands for so much of what Mr. Chávez is against."
/Thanks to all who sent in Simon Romero's front page New York Times update on the possible demise of Venezuela's Caracas Country Club at the hands of Hugo Chavez's government.
Read More"Did you ever think I would get to 600 rounds?"
/Art Stricklin with the story of Richard Lewis who must have gone through a lot of golf balls in his Guinness record-breaking quest to play the most rounds in a year.
Read MoreNo Golf At Pinehurst Today!
/Shot and tweeted by Bill Fields along with other images. Thanks to John Strege for the head's up.
Engineers Fight About To Get Ugly
/Evan Rothman continues to report on the possible sale of historic Engineers Country Club to Donald Trump. Now it seems some members aren't so happy about the Board's decision to put the sale to a vote and are not so subtly threatening to sue.
Read More"'You are only liable for hitting someone if that person [is] in front of you."
/Interesting legal analysis featured near the top of Michael Schmidt's story on the no-fore lawsuit's dismissal:
“What this now means,” said Carl Tobias, a professor of law at the University of Richmond, “is that when you play golf in New York, you are only liable for hitting someone” if that person in front of you.
Court: Shanks Are Part Of Life On The Links
/The New York Court of Appeals throws out the personal injury suit against the guy who didn't yell "fore."
Read More"The players were scheduled to play 36 holes after most of the first day was rained off, and ended up playing 34."
/Can anyone recall the last time a significant professional event had a skip a hole? This time it was in South Africa at Durban Country Club, where the par-3 4th was too waterlogged for weekend play (Ernie Els took home the trophy.)
Read MoreCallaway, Ball Speed And A Lamborghini
/You know what a sucker I am for entertaining viral product placement videos and this one featuring Stuart Appleby and a Lamborghini is pretty impressive. Of course, I'm more impressed with the car than the golf club, but the branding geniuses don't care about that.
Thanks to reader Kevin who found this over at oobgolf.com.
