2011 Northern Trust Mop-Up Item: Arrogant CBS Cameraman Edition
/I know television rules the world, but I took such joy watching an incident unfold more than once over the weekend, most notably on the 14th tee.
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.
2011 Northern Trust Final Round Wrap
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Baddelay approaches 18 with a real, honest to goodness gallery (click to enlarge)People! What a miracle seeing live bodies return to the fairways Sunday in a retro L.A. Northern Trust Open finale thanks to fan-favorite Fred Couples and cooperative weather. The attendance figure never did make it in my hands but I'm sure it topped last year's 30,000 number.New Rule: If Your Caddy Is Plum-bobbing Your Putts, You're On The Wrong Tour
/Kevin Na has his caddy line him up on tee and fairway shots. I can deal with that. But the plumb-bob putt reading does not belong on the PGA Tour.
(click to enlarge at your own risk)
These Guys Are (Slightly) Faster!
/Five hours and 17 minutes for the Northern Trust Open final round, breaking Saturday's five hour and 20 minute marathon. The people were heard.
2011 Northern Trust Open Final Round Open Comment Thread
/This one has possible train wreck/last man standing written all over it. Either way, I'm leaving it up to you to report what you see and, in small doses, what you hear.
Read MoreThe Shark Is Fighting For Every Penny!
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Nick Tabakoff reports that Greg Norman has lost in court trying to get out of paying a massive sum ($6730.71) in termination/vacation pay to Joanne Dwyer, the office administrator of his shuttered Sydney course design firm. This sounds like a most noble cause the Shark and his legal team took up:2011 Northern Trust Open: These Guys Are Getting Slower!
/Five hours and twenty minutes for the leading threesomes to play their NoTrust Open rounds in cool, sometimes showery conditions?
Read More"It's been happening forever. Did Tiger play in Buick events because he had a deal to do so? Of course."
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John Huggan talks to Chubby Chandler about the need (in his view) for the PGA and European Tours to coordinate events better and essentially expand the WGC concept, which has done little for lesser events on the two tours.2011 Northern Trust Open Photo Caption Fun, Yours Truly Edition
/Reader Tom saw Doug Ferguson's Tweet of my very, very brief media room siesta--John Strege thinks I was only out one minute--and suggested this one needs a caption. To help jumpstart your creative juices, this occurred around 2:00 when Saturday's third round was laboring, the skies were opening up, the heater was working particularly well, the sweet potato side dish was taking over and I was dreaming of what fascinating things CBS guys might have been saying about Riviera.
Read More"This is about the next group of really good players, and whether they care enough to be great."
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Cameron Morfit feeds off of the lastest Dustin Johnson mistake, puts it into a blender with other boondoggery from today's next great things, and asks the legitimate question: what would Tiger do?2011 Northern Trust Open Third Round, Open Comment And Wagering Thread
/I checked with the Mirage, Wynn and the Bellagio and here are over/unders for today's noon Pacific, 3 ET telecast from Riviera:
Read More"He never uses it as an excuse, but I'll tell you flat-out it's worse than people know."
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The scribes enjoyed Freddie's post-round press conference so much, they wrote about it, starting with Bill Dwyre.
"Dude, you can't come up like that in the middle of the round."
/Doug Ferguson offers more details on the Jim Gray incident. I think they're pretty solid, since he was standing there when Johnson's caddy and Gray opted to pass on the chit-chat and get right to the fun stuff.
Read More"I even got a text from Tiger. He says hi, so I texted him back when I was coming down here. I said, I do love this place, but if you played here you'd win ten times, and he didn't send me too polite a text after that."
/Great bit from Fred Couples' post round press conference after his second round 66 in the Northern Trust Open:
Read MoreJim Gray To Spend More Time Watching The NBA All-Star Festivities**
/Steve Elling with the scoop that was the talk of the press center yesterday.
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