Really? “The Story of Golf at The Country Club” Wins 2009 USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award**

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According to the USGA Museum website, The Herbert Warren Wind Book Award...

recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to golf literature. Named in honor of the famed 20th-century American golf writer, the award acknowledges and encourages outstanding research, writing, and publishing about golf. The award attempts to broaden the public’s interest and knowledge in the game of golf.

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"Are athletes now going to use social media as a form of retaliation?"

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Garry Smits files an SI My Shot this week about the John Daly cell phone posting saga.

At first I was mostly amused and then a bit annoyed when the call count surpassed my usual golf score. But my main concern was the precedent. Are athletes now going to use social media as a form of retaliation? Daly posted my office cell number — in reality, no big deal. But many athletes have reporters' home numbers. Will that be the next line crossed? I would not have wanted my daughter to hear some of what her father heard. I can take it, but my child or my wife shouldn't have to.

"Since the beginning of the year, the golf police have been frisking finished and unfinished golf courses throughout central China's Sichuan province, a hotbed of construction activity."

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Two days ago I posed a question about the sanity of exporting the American version of golf to China. With that soul-searching out of the way, the latest installment of great coverage from China by Dan Washburn is up at Slate.com. Titled "The Forbidden Game: China's on-again, off-again war against golf" looks at the bizarre relationship between the government and golf course development, highlighted by the partial bulldozing of the prominent King Valley course, slated to host a Ladies Euro Tour event this year.
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"Of the 10 Englishmen in the world 100, I reckon that maybe two have benefited from the elite squad system."

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In the context of Olympic golf and how we hear that funding will arrive to create academies in various countries to breed future medal winners, check out Alistair Tait's look at the small role the English Golf Union has played in the development of the outstanding Englishmen currently in the world top 10.
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