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.
In Doug Ferguson's story on Mark Steinberg leaving IMG, he writes:
Woods has a close relationship with Steinberg, a reserve on the Illinois basketball team that went to the Final Four in 1989. If he were to leave IMG and stay with Steinberg, it likely would not make much of a difference in his golf schedule or even his endorsements, as Steinberg did most of that work.
...fill in the possibilities here. CAA? William Morris? Steiney And Associates?
Darren Rovell, "Steiney's" go-to source for dissemination, broke the news on Twitter and indeed, Tiger's agent's name has been scrubbed clean of IMGWorld.com.
For Immediate Release...
PGA OF AMERICA, UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION STEP TO A NEW SET OF TEES IN NATIONWIDE SUMMER INITIATIVE, ‘TEE IT FORWARD,’ JULY 5-17
Not really.
The press conference to launch this year's AT&T National at Aronimink offered yet another less-than-pretty look into the world of Tiger Woods' post accident media management. Instead of simply appearing, answering questions and doing his part to promote an event that his name clings to by a thread, Woods used an probably planned-for $1 million foundation donation as a backdoor way of showing the deep rage he holds toward a golf media that once kissed his feet and now which poses straightforward questions about his game and physical well being.
It is what it is, it's a process, it's all right in front of you, will follow the docs orders...
MEDIA ALERT
Golf Channel to Air Tiger Woods’ AT&T National News Conference, Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET
ORLANDO, Fla., (May 23, 2011) - Golf Channel Tuesday will air live Tiger Woods’ news conference from Aronimink Golf Club in Newton Square, Penn. Coverage will begin at 11 a.m. ET and will continue until the conference concludes. The news conference is a part of media day for the 2011 AT&T National, a PGA TOUR event benefiting the Tiger Woods Foundation.
Kelly Tilghman will anchor coverage, and will be joined by GolfChannel.com senior writer Jason Sobel from the network’s Orlando studios.
**If you ever want evidence of how delusional the years of media fawning made Tiger and his flunkies, check out these tweets.
First, Greg McLaughlin, the lavishly paid head of Tiger's foundation:
And then Tiger, putting the media in a no-win situation before his press conference:
It really is remarkable that at this point they call a press conference after everything that happened--namely the lies--and hope to get nothing but fawning softballs.
They should be grateful anyone shows to hear a former world No. 1 plug a tournament he may or may not finish.
**And one more attempt at humor that speaks volumes about Tiger really needing professional help to work out his anger toward the media.
Far be it for me to question Mike Keiser's business acumen, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of a $100, 13-hole par-3 course to compliment the full-length courses at Bandon Dunes. Thanks to reader Bob for Mike Stahlberg's story about the latest Coore-Crenshaw-The Boys addition to the resort
Featuring holes ranging from 65 to 180 yards in length, Bandon Preserve sits atop a swath of sand dunes that tumble toward the Pacific just west of the first tee at Bandon Trails.
The site is bounded by the beach on the west, Cut Creek on the north and McKee Preserve on the south.
The land affords some spectacular ocean views and contains “a lot of great golf terrain,” Keiser said.
That inviting terrain is the second reason, Keiser said, that he decided to build a par-3 for those “aging Boomers to have a golf experience in the afternoon.”
The Preserve course has already been roughed out and shaped.
After irrigation and drainage systems are installed, the goal is to have it seeded by June.
Public play is expected to begin in mid-2012.
“Now that we see how good it will be — because I think it’ll really be super, and much more popular than I ever thought — we’re going to charge a lot and give profits to the south coast conservation effort,” Keiser said.
“We think we’ll charge $100.”
Obama's gotten a lot of scrutiny for his golf even though Boehner plays his fair share, so this unbylined AP story is worth nothing for a few reasons, none moreso though than for this item about his putting. Plug in your metaphors here.Poulter and Donald are in the finale in Spain, they've a nice final foursome at the Sybase and Colonial has gotten more interesting. And I'm sure the only thing anyone will want to talk about is Ian Poulter falling and losing his diamond encrusted ball marker.
Me, I'm just forwarding through the telecast to see...if we can figure out what happened to the marker. Ian declared himself "alright," but only after checking to see if his pants had been stained. We wouldn't have him any other way.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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