Rees Jones Comes To His Own Defense
/Ed Sherman talks to the architect about player criticism of his Cog Hill Rees-do and not only does the dreaded examination word come out, but he drags the tour into his mess!
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Monty Installs Padded, Sound-Proof Room
/...so that no one can hear what's going on. In the team room! At Celtic Manor.
Read More"There are so many ways the Tour could have regulated Tiger to East Lake next week, starting with the stipulation that the defending FedEx Cup champion gets the chance to defend."
/I thought Cameron Morfit was going for a tongue-in-cheek/April Fool's deal with his suggestion that the tour should have figured out a way to get Tiger to East Lake--kind of like when NBC scrambled to figure out a way to keep Charles Van Doren after he intentionally lost on Twenty One. But it appears Morfit is serious in his criticism that the FedExCup has taken a hit because the PGA Tour did not rewrite the rules to get Tiger to the Super Bowl, even though he's got a .500 record.
Read MoreGolf Channel Unveils Details Behind New Margins Enhancement Program
/Wait, I mean, the "Announcer Lite" broadcast of this week's Albertsons Boise Open, which the network insists is not a preview of leaner, meaner more profitable broadcast's to come.
Read MorePoulter: Padraig Only Has To Play 13 Or 14 Good Holes!
/Ian Poulter's defense of the Padraig Harrington selection, as shared exclusively with Derek Lawrenson, suggests that Padraig will be fine because he doesn't have to put an 18-hole masterpiece together.
Read More"Rawson didn't have an organization like this when she was young, but she had golf."
/Nice work by Jill Painter to reveal a side of Anna Rawson few know about and how Rawson is giving back to a cause that is particularly fitting in light of the Erica Blasberg case.
Read More"Expectations were high for Lost Farm, and Coore has delivered with a course that is top shelf."
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Darius Oliver files the first review of Lost Farm, the companion course to Tom Doak and Mike Clayton's Barnbougle Dunes, and not surprisingly it sounds like a winner. Thanks to reader Jon for this.
Expectations were high for Lost Farm, and Coore has delivered with a course that is top shelf. It does need a growing season or two before the fescue grasses mature and provide golfers with the sort of firm surfaces ideal for this type of layout, but preview rounds will not disappoint. Golfers who have been putting off a trip to Barnbougle Dunes since it opened in 2004 now have no excuse.
“Tackling everything from Tiger Woods to Brett Favre, the show’s format will be unlike anything we’ve done before and we are very excited to be launching it in 2011.”
/Yesterday we learned from Tom Cunneff's interview with Golf Channel suit Keith Allo that they were developing a morning show. And voila! Today a light-on-detail press release lands announcing "Dawn Patrol," which, incidentally was the name of the scripted drama I was developing centering around a group of renegade cart driving residents of the Villages who flesh out subversives in the flush retirement community. It was sort of Road Warrior meets A-Team in the vein of Splash.
Read More"Ms. Evans declined to comment."
/The NY Times' Susanne Craig and Peter Lattman ponder the oddity of the folks who live in the revolving door world of corporate boards somehow retaining their prized place in that incestuous little world even after they've been part of a number of stinkers. One of golf's higher profile personalities from not too long ago was prominently featured for her fine work at Lehman Brothers, but oddly, her support of Brand Lady Bivens during her LPGA Board days was not noted.
Read More"Personally, I don't think Westwood will turn up unless he feels capable of playing 36 holes a day."
/Mark Roe treads carefully around the will-Lee-Westwood-be-ready-for-the-Ryder-Cup question
Read MoreThe Worst Thing About The FedEx Cup?
/FedEx Cup groveling seems pointless these days since (A) the PGA Tour will not admit what a convoluted mess they've created, (B) the likeliehood of FedEx returning after 2012 doesn't seem great, and (C) the opportunity to have created something water-cooler worthy seems to be the last thing the risk-averse legion of play-it-safe VP's would ever consider.
Read More"This will be 50,000-plus a day, and you can't go back to when it was 15,000 or 20,000 per day. You can't. It won't go backwards."
/Matty G interviews Sir Terry Matthews, developer of Celtic Manor, trying his best to get the uber-dullard billionaire to say something interesting. This did catch my eye:
Read More"It will have a real immediacy. We’ll even do the weather."
/Check out Tom Cunneff's Links interview with Keith Allo, the Golf Channel suit who reveals all sorts of interesting stuff about the network's current and future programming, including a morning show in 2011.
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