Next Question: Content In 2011
/Thanks for the many great insights into the site design. Included was a plea for more LPGA coverage and more architecture chatter.
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.
Engineers Fight About To Get Ugly
/Evan Rothman continues to report on the possible sale of historic Engineers Country Club to Donald Trump. Now it seems some members aren't so happy about the Board's decision to put the sale to a vote and are not so subtly threatening to sue.
Read More"The tour basically has said, 'Hey, we don’t want to lose this.'"
/Steve Elling delivers the great news that the PGA Tour has kicked in some money to save their satellite radio deal with XM/Sirius. Granted, this means the announcers are now paid by Ponte Vedra and thus will be monitored by those dreaded censors who work from the bowels of the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse.
Read MoreArnie Unplugged, Sort Of
/Steve Elling sat in on Arnold Palmer's Golf Channel instruction show taping and the King almost went off...
Read MoreSite Format And Design Questions
/It's time to freshen up the look of the site for a number of reasons and I'm curious if there are any suggestions you'd like to make for the design, functionality or any other general points. Thanks to my host, Squarespace, there is flexibility in templates and design. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.
Read MoreNORAD Returns To Defcon 1 After Twitter-Driven Tiger Woods Injury Scare
/And it all started on Twitter and ended with Tiger merely getting a cortisone shot from someone other than Dr. Spaceman. I'm not going to address the Twitter ethics debate that erupted amongst bored golf writers, but let's just say, Shipnuck resorted to pulling Marshall McLuhan out from behind a movie theater cardboard cutout.
Read MoreMonty's Locker Room Tales
/Looking for a little self-flagellation before the holiday fun starts? I give you Monty's Ryder Cup diary, as published by The Telegraph. I made it up to this point:
Read More"'You are only liable for hitting someone if that person [is] in front of you."
/Interesting legal analysis featured near the top of Michael Schmidt's story on the no-fore lawsuit's dismissal:
“What this now means,” said Carl Tobias, a professor of law at the University of Richmond, “is that when you play golf in New York, you are only liable for hitting someone” if that person in front of you.
Court: Shanks Are Part Of Life On The Links
/The New York Court of Appeals throws out the personal injury suit against the guy who didn't yell "fore."
Read MoreDirecTV Subscribers: Are You Making Impassioned Pleas To Save Golf Channel?**
/I know I'd be on the phone to complain about them dropping a channel I watch, just wondering if any of you are lighting up the phone banks in Pakistan to tell Rupert Murdoch's goons you want your Golf Channel?
Read More"Nobody could have predicted this kind of sponsor retention.”
/Michael Smith reports on the PGA Tour's rosey sponsor picture and gets a chatt Tom Wade to say a bit more than he probably should have.
Read More"sooooo i just found out phi beta kappa is an academic society NOT a sorority...oops."
/That's one of my favorite Tweets of the year from Michelle Wie, which is part of John Strege's year-end anthology of the best and worst from professional (golfing) tweeters.
Read More“There will be other channels that are going to come down — channels that aren’t watched as much will come down."
/John Ourand files a detail-rich story on a possible Golf Channel-DirecTV break up December 31st.
Read More“The stories get people there. The product keeps people there.”
/The NY Times's Bill Carter takes a while to clear his throat but as usual delivers some compelling reasons for the NFL's massive ratings this season. Ponte Vedra, take note...
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