“And frankly, all they do is market slow play.”
/In Gene Yasuda's look at the dire state of the golf industry, industry consultant Stuart Lindsay suggested that the PGA Tour deserves great blame for slow play.
Read More
In 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 end result is a 7,225-yard par-72 layout encompassing five holes from the despised Centenary course, 11 from the King's and two from the Queen's."
/Anticipating the 2014 Ryder Cup disaster that is to be held at the Centennary course at Gleneagles, John Huggan cooks up a composite course at the famed resort as an alternative idea.(Here's the Google aerial if you want to try and follow.)
Read MoreTiger Lumped With Favre In "Doghouse"
/Okay, it's a stretch, but as reader Mark noted the golf connections are tenuous, but Tiger does make an appearance at the end of the latest Taiwanese reenactment video on Brett Favre's saga and well, they've ditched the rugby shirt and got him back in red and black cap. In a doghouse. With what looks like a slimmed down Teddy Roosevelt. Yep, you can't make it up.
"I've represented Tiger for more than 12 years and it is pandemonium and craziness wherever he goes."
/Mark Hayes quotes a remarkably chatty agent Mark Steinberg who is pumping up Tiger's triumphant return to Australia this December.
Read More“All the boomers are doing is masking what’s really leaking in golf."
/I missed Gene Yasuda's alarming Oct. 4 piece on just how far down the drain golf is headed, but it's loaded with some great stuff and one huge stink-bomb of blame directed at the wrong source of the game's troubles. First, he explains how retiring boomers are masking huge declines in play among 25-44-year-olds.
Read MoreBen Crane's Team Whips Up A Viral Video To Help Their Man's Image
/I guess I'd find this a lot funnier if he was putting the same kind of energy into playing faster.
Read MoreWhen Manufacturers Do Nice Things, Vol. 1
/Thanks to My Golf Spy for this shining moment in golf manufacturer good deed history.
RIP Reid Hanley
/
Here's the obituary for the longtime Chicago Tribune golf writer who passed away Thursday morning.
Judging by the number of readers who passed along the link he developed an avid following in one tough sports town!
Graeme Careful Not To Thank Tiger For Crashing His Car
/But as Steve Elling points out, that's the real takeaway from Peter Hutcheon's story quoting U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell on how his late entry into the Chevron World Challenge led to a great week, top 50 world ranking and entry into several key 2010 events.
Read More"The South Korean players became more shy after a profile of Kyeong Bae in a Canadian newspaper this summer in which she referred to the cartoon character SpongeBob Square Pants as 'Spongie Bob.'"
/Karen Crouse introduces us to the LPGA "language labs" and the issues arising in trying to Americanize teach English to non-Americans.
Read MoreNationwide Tour Clearly Needs More Suffocating Rough!
/John Dell reports that the Nationwide Tour's finest are on the verge of breaking a driving distance record.
Read More"I get the sense that, for many people, the current golf model is broken."
/I'm going to look past Charlie Rymer's suggestion that every golf course cut two cups, one regulation and one 10-incher, so golfers can choose the size they'd like to play to, because these were good suggestions for bettering the game.
Read MoreI Guess This Rules Out Herb Kohler Buying A Ryder Cup For St. Andrews
/Thanks to the readers who sent in Rick Romell's story on Herb Kohler's "largely in the red" operation in St. Andrews, which likely ends any dreams we might have of him joining the bidding process for a future Ryder Cup. It also can't bode well for Hamilton Hall when another fixer-upper has been such a huge drain.
Read More
