"No sport is blessed with a talent pool such as golf's"
/Bob Verdi celebrates
Read MoreWhen 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
NY Times: Cabot Links And The Allure Of Remote Golf
/Cabot Links, the Rod Whitman-designed brainchild of Ben Cowen-Dewar with a major assist from Mike Keiser, opened Friday and
Read MoreDavid Graham Wants Equipment Rules Revisited...
/...but not a word about distance issues from the former U.S. Open champion and member of the Masters Cup and Tee Marker Placement Committee.
Jim Achenbach says Graham believes amateurs should be able to carry as many clubs as they want, with as much loft as they'd like to allow them to hit flops like Tiger and Phil (even though that takes special skill) and he's for the long putter too.
“If we examine long putters, it’s easy to see they have allowed a lot of people across the board to get more enjoyment from the game,” Graham says. “Absolutely the long putter has helped the game. It’s a good thing.
“Besides, even with a certain amount of opposition to the long putter, it may be too late to change it. Many golfers thoroughly depend on these putters. With this kind of passion, I think the game itself becomes the benefactor.”
As for the real issue at hand? Mum's the word!
"Golf cart deaths more common than thought."
/Because I want to end your week on a excessively depressing note, here
Read MoreRecent Major Winners: "Only a few of those players have emerged as consistent threats since their breakthrough wins."
/Ron Sirak takes a deeper look at the 15 first time major winners streak and when you see the list and see how little those winners have done since their breakthrough,
Read MoreSandy Tatum On Golf In The Year 2046
/Fun concept and pulled off adeptly by the 91-year-old former USGA President,
Read MoreJack Nicklaus, On A Little Bit Of Everything
/The old media vets didn't get the new story they hankered for, but us first time Memorial guests were happy to lap up Jack Nicklaus' pre-tournament sitdown with the media.
Read More“The members’ sweat equity cuts our maintenance budget in half.”
/Bill Pennington's superb front page
Read MoreNow Presenting The Non-Minority Collegiate Minority Golf Champs!
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The Daily's John Walters takes a look at the winners of the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship and finds a lot of fine golfers resembling non-minorities.
How does Bethune-Cookman, a school that is 94.3 percent African-American and 1.5 percent white, draw such talented female golfers from Austria, Denmark and Great Britain? Coach Loritz “Scooter” Clark declined comment for this story, but the Daytona Beach-based school’s home course is the LPGA International Legends Course, which is located within driving distance, as it were, from the LPGA headquarters.
Renee Powell was the second black female to play on the LPGA Tour. Powell, 66, recalled twisting the arm of a sponsor in order to send golf equipment to three HBCUs. When she arrived at a tournament in which they were playing, Powell had a startling discovery.
“All of your golfers are white,” Powell told the coach.
“My school president wants to win,” the coach replied.
“If I had known that I would have given the equipment to another college where minority kids were struggling,” Powell said.
FL GOV: I Want More Golf Courses By "Well Named" Architects!
/Alex Miceli on Governor Rick Scott, sounding about as disconnected from reality as Tim Finchem weighing in on slow play,
Read MoreStudent Loan Debt And Country Clubs
/Reading Andrew Martin and Andrews Lehren's depressing
Read More"By my math par-3s require about one quarter of the time of a regulation course with 90% or more of the fun."
/Nice to see Bill Coore promoting the Bandon Preserve course and the greatness
Read MoreRick Smith's Tragically Inconsistent Views On Technology
/Speaking in his native Michigan and contradicting himself sentence by sentence, pro-technology instructor and course designer Rick Smith is all over the map.
“I love new technology,” Smith said. “So the ball is hot.
That's right, so what if it's juiced!
You look at the PGA Tour pros and they still hit it all over the place.
Oh, well, if you want to put it like that, okay...
I think we need to preserve tradition, and I think the driver and ball are maxed out (per USGA limits).
So if it's maxed out, then why not reel things in a tad for "tradition" purposes of using classic courses and having players play a game we can relate to?
So if technology helps people play the game, I don't see anything wrong with that.”
Now that is some good stuff! It helps people. The pros hit it all over the place. The ball is hot. We should preserve tradition and the distance is maxed out. Now that's "all over the place."
