Bohn To Pick: Bad Time On 16 Leads To Water Ball On 17?
/Doug Ferguson with the tale of Jason Bohn
Read MoreIn golf construction art and utility meet; both are absolutely vital; one is utterly ruined without the other. GEORGE THOMAS
It’s back!
Twenty years later Tatra Press has kindly allowed me to bring back Grounds For Golf now that golf architecture is of more interest to the masses. A new Introduction looks at what’s driven the interest growth and two new chapters I had a blast adding (plus a few edits to keep things up-to-date).
The Amazon purchase page for the book arriving June 15, 2026.
15-Inch Cups Cut 45 Minutes Off Rounds?
/Larry Olmsted summarizes the
Read MoreVideo: Zach Johnson, Others On Valero's Tepid Pace Of Play
/Just 71 players on Sunday at the Valero Open and it took them three hours to play the front nine, 5:32 for the last group, so naturally it's the old field size solution wheeled out by Zach Johnson in this Golf Central interview. He also makes some great points, but it was definitely a pot-kettle-black moment. Especially as he leaves out a mention of the players themselves, which is odd to say the least.
Johnson, says the issues are course setup, spacing of tee times, ripple effects, more daylight (!?) and the issue of putting the rules officials in a predicament in who to enforce the rules on and when. But the main solution he suggests entails reducing the size of fields. An oldie and not a very goodie, especially when Sunday proved that even a reduced field just can't get around a tough course quickly.
Great discussion between Ryan Burr, Steve Flesch and Tripp Isenhour follows the interview. Love the passion! Red phone will be ringing on Golf Channel Drive!
Irony: Failure To Penalize Slow Players Inflicting Image Damage
/Tim Finchem issued
Read MoreNa Slow, Na Heckled
/Interestingly, no one in the Arnold Palmer Invitational crowd was ejected
Read MoreThe Kevin Na Playing Partner Penalty: .4 Strokes Per Round
/On Morning Drive this Sunday Charlie Rymer talked at length about the cruelty of a Kevin Na pairing because of the added burden it places on his playing partners. Robert Garrigus was too kind to go there, but his caddy Brent Henley concurred. 
Well now Luke Kerr-Dineen and the GolfDigest.com team have crunched the numbers and determined that players average nearly a half-shot higher than their normal round scoring average when getting paired with one of the world's slowest golfers.
How'd it turn out? From the start of 2012 through the 2014 Valspar Championship, Kevin Na has played with 220 PGA Tour golfers. On average, those 220 golfers shoot about 0.4 strokes higher when playing with Na. That's almost half a stroke, meaning that if someone plays with Na in all four rounds of a tournament, he'll be expected to shoot 1.6 strokes higher than if he played with someone else.
Snedeker: I Slow Down To Ensure Fines For Slowpokes
/There have been many times I thought the PGA Tour would get more proactive on slow play, only to be disappointed that the
Read MoreValspar Wrap And Video Of Na's Great Shot, Minus The Routine
/It was hard to tell from Sunday's telecast just how strange Kevin Na's antics were since in my viewing from a bar stool
Read More“It ain’t fair playing with Kevin Na, It ain’t fair.”
/Though playing partner Robert Garrigus downplayed the impact on his game,
Read MoreHahn: "If you’re going to allow measuring devices, you might as well allow carts because that speeds up play."
/Stephanie Wei talked to tour pros about distance measuring devices
Read MoreOur Prayers Answered: USGA Allows DMD's In Am Events
/The player experience?
Maintaining the challenge and spirit of the game while allowing distance measuring devices, as long as they don't measure that other stuff?
Bubba Gets His Super Bowl Viewing Wish: No Playoff!
/No doubt the Golf Gods caught
Read MoreBeman: “No evidence that bifurcation would hurt the game"
/Jim McCabe follows up on his coverage from the USGA Pace of Play summit
Read MoreUSGA's Pace Of Play Symposium Roundup
/Dan Hubbard offers a
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