"'Inside Edition' and 'Extra' requested credentials but were denied because the application deadline passed."
/Ron Green Jr. and Rick Rothacker noted this about Quail Hollow's media credentialing next week:
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.
"He used to design at night so people wouldn't see that this African-American was walking the course that he was hired to design."
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Farrell Evans interviews Treme star Wendell Pierce about the City Park redevelopment project in New Orleans, which is also slated to include a rejuvenation of Joe Bartholomew's course.Tour Gives PLAYERS Fans Another Reason To Choose Stay-At-Home Viewing Option
/They've eliminated the free parking and shuttle so that everyone has to pay $20 to park...in advance! Oh yeah, that's a setup you want to mimic in the economy, other tournaments.
Read MoreTiger Commits To Second Event In Same Day; Scribblers Think 2026 Champions Tour Commitments May Be Next
/Nice of him to enter the tournament that used to be the one he once hosted a full three months out, prompting Jeff Rude to note, "This is progress. All of a sudden, Woods is a man of commitment."
Read MoreTiger Eager To Return To Ponte Vedra And Fond Memories; Commits Really, Really Early (For Him)
/You know the fond memories, the U.S. Amateur he won there. The Players. And being hustled into the cart barn by his security team in a black surburban, armed with an apology statement to read.
Read More"Tour should rethink its aversion to controversy"
/I have a column in this week's Golf World that I just know Tim Finchem will be making copies of and distributing to his VP's with a big Post-It note attached, with the words "Maybe if you read this backwards it makes sense, Coterminously Yours, Tim."
Lorena Retirement Clippings, Vol. 1**
/Or is it an indefinite leave? We'll find out Friday.
Read More"Everywhere we go, we hear, 'Is Freddie coming? Is Freddie coming?'"
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Bill Fields returns to his old beat on the Champions Tour to figure out why things are on an upswing while the other tours are scratching and clawing to remain relevant.Tiger Has One Less Excuse To Skip Future AT&T National Pro-Ams
/Granted, there's still that little obstacle called AT&T, but Poppy Hills will not be one of the reasons he skips in future years, reports the Monterey Herald in sharing the great news that Monterey Peninsula Country Club's Shore Course hosts the next five years.
Read More"But at least I don't look like an idiot out there"
/Cat fight alert!
Read MoreSay It Ain't So: Lorena Ochoa Retiring
/Wow.
Alan Shipnuck explains in a series of tweets what he's seen with Ochoa in the last year that makes this only a minor surprise to him.
Update on 2010-04-20 16:06 by Geoff
**Beth Ann Baldry talks to a friend of Lorena who says she hasn't been having much fun.
Even The Villages' Marketing Department Can't Get Excited About The Masters' Ancient Viewing Demo
/John Ourand thought a sex scandal could lower the age of golf’s TV audience and was shocked to find out that it didn't happen.
Read MoreLet's Hope Golf Provides A Better Local News Lead-In Than Leno Did
/Looking at Saturday's announced 11 p.m EDT finish for the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, I just have to wonder why we don't contest the national open on the west coast every year. No rain, prime time finishes, courses long the Pacific...
Read More"We've settled down now to a glacier pace here on the 10th hole."
/Thanks to John Strege for documenting Gary McCord's comment on the last group's slow play Sunday at Harbour Town. I heard it and swore I must have been wishfully thinking that an announcer just called out the leaders of a PGA Tour event!
When Davis and Furyk appeared to be dawdling on the 10th green on Sunday, CBS' Gary McCord said, "We've settled down now to a glacier pace here on the 10th hole."
They were playing twosomes on Sunday at the Verizon Heritage and it still took more than four hours to complete play.
Do you think that just maybe the networks are tired of the slow play and extended finishes caused by slow play? Finally?
