"Fate of Sharp Park Course In Limbo"
/Wayne Freeman's KGO-TV News story on the fate of Sharp Park is worth watching if you have any interest in the fate of the affordable MacKenzie course I profiled for Golf World a few weeks ago.
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.
"If he’s not getting what he needs from Haney then he’ll move on, just as he did in dumping Butch."
/I think someone with the initials A.S. is going to be hearing from Hank Haney!
Read MoreRough and the PGA
/You may recall that before the PGA I suggested that we would find out this year whether the clever, low rough setup at Southern Hills was an abberation or whether the less nuanced, high-rough hackout nonsense seen at Oak Hill and Oakland Hills was more typical of the modern PGA Championship.
"Of all the people you are going to offer things to, you certainly wouldn't want to approach the ex-partner."
/An unbylined Scottish Herald story on a "hapless crook" getting 60 days for trying to sell a set of stolen golf clubs to their owner's estranged wife.
Read More"The country-club softies who have made a habit of lying down for Woods have collectively done little farming and spent even less time guarding naval installations"
/Fun to see that both SI and Golf World's game stories touched on Y.E. Yang's toughness in fending off Tiger Woods.
Read MoreThere's No "Mr. and Mrs. Wie" In Team!
/Jim Gorant reports that the parents have been told they weren't welcome in the Solheim Cup team and locker rooms.
Aus Open Officials Confident Daly Too Weak To Repeat Last Year's Camera Chuck
/Assured that John Daly's 600 daily calorie intake
Read More"An argument could be made that what the world witnessed Monday was the latest -- and perhaps greatest -- example of the market phenomenon known for a decade as the Tiger Effect."
/Spotted by John Strege, this is disturbing on a level I can't even begin to describe. Ty Wenger at TheStreet.com:
Read MoreESTMATED 35.7 MILLION SUFFER THROUGH ALL-OR-PART OF CBS SPORTS’ COVERAGE OF 2009 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
/And survey's report a record spike in DVR sales directly attributed to CBS's promo-cluttered, commercial-heavy, golf-light broadcast.
Read More"It was only a short putt, but I thought Tiger’s early departure was pretty bush."
/Alan Shipnuck answers a reader question about Tiger's gamesmanship ploys at Hazeltine, adding a couple more possible incidents to our list.
Read More“When we urged him to go into farming, he would say: ‘I’m not going to live like my father"
/There's plenty of great reporting the day after Y.E. Yang's improbable PGA win covering an array of topics.
Read MoreCBS Scores Ratings Spike In Spite Of Awful Coverage
/Despite relentlessly plugging CBS shows and having almost nothing prepared to tell us more about Y.E. Yang, the network scored the highest PGA ratings since 2002.
Read MoreAcushnet Wins New Trial, Lawyers Rejoice!
/E. Michael Johnson first reported at GolfDigest.com that a federal appeals court tossed the Callaway-ProV1 patent infringement verdict
Read More"What was up with Steve Williams coming off the 13th tee yesterday?"
/I haven't seen anything in the first round of stories about some of the possible gamesmanship and perhaps tension that was part of the Tiger Woods-Y.E. Yang. Several readers have posted or emailed about this incident on the 13th, including reader Cam:
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