April 24, 2009

"Any time you see where a Lowe's or Wal-Mart or Home Depot and Sam's Club [is being built], that means they know where the growth corridor is."

April 24, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Nice spot by Geoff Russell who suffered through Greg Norman's Legends of Golf press conference transcript to glean this valuable piece of business wisdom.

April 24, 2009

I'm Not Really Sure What This Has To Do With Shaving...

April 24, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

..but it's an improvement over their last campaign. Are those Footjoy Classics that Tiger is wearing?

April 23, 2009

"The fact is, we are coming off the most activist 10-year period in the history of golf ball and golf club regulation, and a bold and rigid line in the sand has been effectively drawn by the game's regulatory bodies."

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Thanks to Chuck Stogel at CBSSports.com for highlighting Wally Uihlein's latest essay on limits and sheer hopelessness of modern technology.

April 23, 2009

"The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater."

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Who else but Dan Jenkins in his Golf Digest Masters report. I liked this:

April 23, 2009

Pink, Rested And Slimmer Thanks To The Lap Band: Daly Preps For Spanish Open With Caddyshack Appearance

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Garry Smits reports that the two time major champ is making an appearance in St. Augustine for the Murray Brothers' charity before heading to Spain.

April 23, 2009

"At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur -- I always believed (and continue to believe) that the bedrock of the LPGA tour was the communities where women's golf was the biggest show of the year."

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Geoff Russell, writing about the demise of the LPGA's Corning Classic and his days as an LPGA beat writer:

April 23, 2009

"Doesn't exactly sound like a player who's ready to hang up the soft spikes while waxing poetic about the good ol' days, does it?"

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

I like Jason Sobel's proposed fixes to the World Golf Hall of Fame's bizarre embrace

April 23, 2009

Environmentall Friendly Golf Guide

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Earth Day led to a few interesting posts yesterday and sorry to say I'm only now getting to them

April 23, 2009

"Whether it plays a yard longer than it did in 2002, I doubt it"

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Rex Hoggard's sneak preview of the changes to Bethpage tells us that Rees Jones extended the course and it sounds like Mike Davis has little intention of ever coming close to maxing the Black out (just like last year).

April 23, 2009

Appearing On Peter Kessler's Show...

April 23, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

I'm a guest today at 10:40 a.m. EST. That's Sirius Channel 209 / XM Channel 146 for subscribers.

April 22, 2009

Sales At The Cliffs

April 22, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Nice catch by Deeds and Weeds' Peter Finch who spotted this John Boyle and Mark Barrett story on real estate.

April 22, 2009

"And this is going to be Buddy's Walker Cup. It's one of the really neat fits of all time."

April 22, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Thanks to Chema for this Mike Kern story on the Walker Cup at Merion.

April 22, 2009

Monty's Tweeting!

April 22, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

Okay, well not officially, but we can dream can't we?

Derek Lawrenson previews what Monty on Twitter would look like.

April 22, 2009

"'Patron' ruined Campbell's Masters run"

April 22, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

I guess my mind is in the gutter, but when I saw that golf.com headline for a Curt Sampson item

April 22, 2009

Special Request

April 22, 2009/ Geoff Shackelford

I see holes were punched in my baseball stadium metaphor on the post detailing the boasting of R&A changes to Turnberry in response to improved athleticism and technology.