Golf In America Takes On Ginn
/Looks like there's a provocative story about Bobby Ginn on Tuesday's Golf in America.
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
Funk Shoots 20-Under To Win Senior Open; Laura Norman Probably To Blame
/Clearly Greg Norman's ex, who cost her man majors compared to the trophies Chris Evert has helped him bring home, is haunting the Shark and forbidding him from making a final day run at Crooked Stick, thus allowing Fred Funk to bludgeon Pete Dye's Indiana masterpice.
Read MoreMatthew Win Provides Much Needed Lift For Downtrodden Heterosexual White People
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As Mark Reason noted in his round three game Women's Open Championship story, these are tough times for long-discrimated-against, fair-skinned folks of the world who've been pushed aside by ambitious, predatory young Asian women of great golfing skill.
Yet eleven weeks removed from giving birth, Scotland's Catriona Matthew held off the same Kurosawa-film extras killing LPGA Tour golf that Reason warned about, capturing the Ricoh Women's Open Championship. No mention in today's story about non-King's-English speaking menaces who have "taken over" the LPGA.
On a serious note, Susan Smith and Elpseth Burnside tell her amazing story, including a reminder that her husband/caddie was injured just last week in the Evian Masters hotel fire.
The Scot had her husband, who is also her caddie, at her side as she picked up her the tournament trophy and a first prize of £197,000 last night.
"I really can't believe it," she said. "I had a tear in my eye there coming up the last and I'm overcome by it all.
"It was always an aim to win a major and the British Open was the one for me. You wonder if your chances are running out but I'm just absolutely delighted."
Tiger Woods Finally Captures Elusive Nationwide Tour Win
/Geeze, did the big boys think Buick wouldn't pay out the purse? I know some people pointed out the quality of field for the final Buick Open, but this stat from CBS was scary.
Read More"Matthew is almost the lone westerner left on the walls as the women from the Orient line up for the final attack like warriors in some film by Kurosawa."
/Mark Reason's third round Women's Open Championship game story takes a shot at the emergence of Asian players in women's golf and features some quotes from Marsha Evans about how to deal with this uh, matter.
Colorado GC Lands 2013 Solheim Cup
/This, after getting the 2010 Senior PGA.
Read More"They hit a huge drive, they hit a short iron -- it's a different game."
/While Bob Kravitz's column on technology does not contain any breaking news, in the context of the technology debate it's interesting to see a newspaper columnist
Read MoreNow Daly Is Starving Himself?
/Doug Ferguson talks to Rick Smith after JD's second round 88 at the Buick. It seems the lack of trying is part of the latest attempt to kill himself: starvation and sleep deprivation. Worked well for Michael Jackson.
Read More"No greens keepers here — just do-it-yourselfers."
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Irwin said he would like to see sand greens make a comeback.
"There are a number of places that sand greens might make a resurgence because of our water issues and challenges facing many of today's golf courses in trying to keep them up," he said. "Sand greens are unique, but they aren't impossible to play."
Sand greens of yesteryear were an environmentalist's nightmare. To create a faster putting surface and keep the sand from blowing away, motor oil was dumped on the greens once or twice a year.
PastureGolf.com has more including a listing of courses.
"That's Pete's magic I guess you might say."
/I'm guessing that after some links and heathlands golf, Crooked Stick and it's old style USGA setup is just not evoking the same rush of excitement for Tom Watson. You be the judge based on his post round 1 comments:
Read More"I wasted a lot of years not taking things serious."
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The GolfChannel.com team probably flipped coins and Rex Hoggard lost, so he had to interview John Daly about his new Golf Channel reality show."It's the equipment"
/That was Andy North on today's U.S. Senior Open telecast to explain why Crooked Stick's maximum yardage for the Senior Open is longer than it was for the 1991 PGA. The context of a USGA event telecast
Read More"The author expects to be mocked, belittled, and made the object of unrelenting scorn, and really that’s part of the appeal in doing this."
/Alan Shipnuck retires his Hot List column in favor of a "mailbag" format.
Read MoreKohler In On Milwaukee Rescue?
/We've heard mumblings about a "chill" inducing pitch to save the Milwaukee stop and Tim Rosaforte sheds a little more light on what that may mean:
Read MoreIs That GUR?
/Did anyone else think that was a white ground under repair line around the telephone poles at Crooked Stick's 9th hole for the U.S. Senior Open?
Update on 2009-07-31 02:26 by Geoff
I'm told it's actually the 6th hole, it's one of Pete Dye's random tributes to Ma Bell and is in fact marked Ground Under Repair.
