Slow Play Leads To Another Assault Arrest
/Thanks to reader NRH for the latest slow play blow up and assault story. This time Donald Sauvageau, 57, was charged with felony aggravated assault
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.
“Golf needs to reinvent itself"
/Lorne Rubenstein considers the collapse of the golf architecture and course development business and raises some wonderful points. First this from architect Tom Mackenzie:
Read MoreFartgate Latest: "I wonder what the running count is."
/Stephanie Wei has a "highly placed source" implicating Magruder as the fifth name to control the fund that financed the Watergate burglars David Feherty
Read More"You can be as mad as you want at them, [but] they always win"
/There's so much to consider in E. Michael Johnson and Mike Stachura's latest Golf World story on grooves.
Read More"It sounds different, but good. The ball takes off."
/Steve DiMeglio on Spain's Alvaro Quiros' latest driving range show stopping moment:
Read MoreRace To Dubai Purse Drops 25%; Anthony Kim Will Learn The News In Late 2011
/Lawrence Donegan reports that the once vaunted $100 million Race To Dubai which lured Camilo Villegas and Anthony Kim to join the European Tour has taken a major hit.
Read More"A case of one (copyright) rule for some, another (copyright) rule for the rest?"
/Since the Kenny Perry unintended-lie-improvement video remains on YouTube, Lawrence Donegan wonders why the PGA Tour and CBS keep taking down the final round Buick clip featuring a robust passing of gas,
Read More"FartGate -- CBS Denies Tiger Supplied It" **
/You forget that in our little golf world, when Tiger might be involved it becomes national news. Case in point:
Read MoreYet Another Tiger Ratings Bump
/You get the idea that they could just show Tiger walking and more people would tune in than a regular tour event.
Read MoreGolf In America Takes On Ginn
/Looks like there's a provocative story about Bobby Ginn on Tuesday's Golf in America.
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.
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