Warning: A Review Of This Site
/Stephen Goodwin reviews this very website…in depth! Just what you were hoping for right? A blogger covering himself.
I don't know why Goodwin refers to the site in the past tense throughout, perhaps he knows something I don't. I plan to be here a while and thank him for the robust analysis of the site, including this criticism.
And he’s at his best when he decides to commit fully, quoting at length from a press interview or an article, interrupting with deft remarks that expose the lack of logic, deflate the hype, mock the pretension. That’s the GS that this reader looks for — intellectually engaged, hackles up, a writer zeroing in on a meaty subject.
I’m not keeping track, but it seems to me that he’s done less of this lately, and I don’t want to think that it’s because he recently joined forces with Golf Digest.
Ask and you shall receive. Goodwin goes on to look at my "core concerns."
1. The designers of the Golden Age were geniuses whose wisdom, like that of the Founding Fathers, will never be reproduced.
Nor were they slave owners.
2. The best golf hole ever designed, by far, is No. 10 at Riviera.
If you can name a better "designed" hole that doesn't rely on an ocean or some other natural feature, I'm all ears!
3. Tiger Woods is to golf as Sarah Palin is to politics, a source of endless fascination; no word or deed, no gesture or expression, should go unreported.
He is pursuing history and he does have a pretty nice track record suggesting it's a pursuit worth watching! Certainly more fun than watching Ben Crane play golf.
4. The PGA Tour is run by suits with small minds, all of whom communicate — or rather, fail to communicate — in an obscure language called M. B. A. Speak.
Oh that's not true. They wear Oxfords around the office and they are not small minded, they just are not that interested in golf.
5. To set up a course for a major championship is at least as complcated as rocket science or brain surgery.
Actually, if you've been reading you'd know it's not that complicated, we've just had a lot of bunglers trying to offset faulty equipment regulation who've made it look that way!
6. The most prolific and sought-after contemporary designers — Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, and Rees Jones — have yet to design a respectable golf course.
Works for me!
7. The failure of golf’s governing bodies to rein in manufactures and set limits on the flight of the golf ball is an ongoing disaster.
Pretty much.
8. The FedEx Cup is the most lame-brained, ginned-up competition in sports.
It has surpassed the BCS for those who know what the FedExCup is.
9. TV coverage of golf is dull enough to put Zombies to sleep.
No one said I was original.
10. Somebody needs to take the current business model of golf out behind the barn and kill it with an axe.
I'm such a lone wolf on that one!
