Have You Set Your DVR's Yet?
/After the second points reset brought Tiger back to the field for the FedEx finale, I completely lost interest in this contrived mess of a "cup chase."
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.
"The search committee has had scores of excellent candidates, both people who have been self-referred and people recommended by others."
/Garry Smits talks to the Rear Admiral about life as LPGA Tour interim commish and we learn a few things about what has been a remarkably quiet effort to salvage sponsorships and land a new leader.
Read More"LOCAL QUALIFYING FOR 2010 U.S. OPEN EXEMPT FROM CONDITION OF COMPETITION FOR NEW GROOVE RULES"
/I think they've mentioned this in past descriptions of the groove transition. Is this merely a matter of now wanting to try and deal with the enforcement headache at the local level?
Read More"We have been assured that our agreement is proceeding substantially as planned."
/While John Hopkins thinks the prize money cut for the Race to Dubai could have been a lot worse because of Dubai's fall, Mark Reason and Lawrence Donegan sound much more suspicious about the short term future of the European Tour's big gamble, both pouncing on word that the Euro Tour does not even have a firm commitment for next year. Reason writes:
Read More"We were putting all our eggs in one basket with this tournament"
/Did anyone else find this statement justifying Anheuser-Busch's pullout of the Kingsmill event a bit curious?
Read MoreRTJ On Nicklaus: It's Almost As If He Never Said A Thing!
/On the post where Robert Trent Jones Jr. analyzes (accurately in my view) Jack Nicklaus's design work, reader E noted, "I don't see the comments about Jack in the link, have they been removed?"
Sure enough, it appears the comments were removed.
And now you know why I copy and paste so much!
God Really Must Not Care For FedEx Cup 3.0
/Atlantans have been Tweeting and emailing about the torrential rains all weekend and Anne Szeker
Read MoreHot, Flat And Not Crowded: Obama Tees It Up With Friedman
/They played the course at Andrews Air Force Base. This ought to be an interesting column. Wednesday I suspect?
Read More"Until gambling on golf becomes part of the mainstream betting action, like college and pro football, the PGA Tour will never have a real chance to make a mark in the fall."
/The SI golf group contemplates the positive ramifications of the LPGA playing a well known tournament course in Torrey Pines (I have to agree, they should do it more often if at all possible). However, this was a more interesting debate related to the FedEx Cup finale:
Read More"So in a sense, the banning of push carts at high-end courses is another price Americans pay for our lavish style of golf."
/Here, here to John Paul Newport for trying to understand why American golfers and courses have shunned the push cart.
Read More"He said he did it because he wanted to honor all the golfers who had died"
/David Kelly with a bizarro story of 57-year-old Douglas Jones, who probably won't have his job working at a golf course much longer after it was discovered he was depositing golf balls--among other things--in the Joshua Tree National Park...as a tribute to dead golfers:
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