Likelihood Of Clinton Appearance In Desert Improves With Departure Of Hope Girls, In-N-Out Truck
/Larry Bohannan reports that temptations in two prominent forms have been dispatched from the Bob Hope Classic Humana Challenge.
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.
Rory's New Rep Painstakingly Makes Case For Inevitable Thailand WD...Anonymously
/Tony Jimenez talks to a member of Rory's new Horizon Sports team who all but described Rory McIlroy's bowel movement activities in laying out the case for his inevitable exhaustion-related WD from next week's Thailand event. Since he fired his last manager, perhaps for being a bit too media friendly, Team Horizon is wisely spinning things without attribution.
Read More“Rather than postpone the inevitable, it was best to be fiscally responsible and good stewards of the money we have left."
/Dave Kane's story on the end of Springfield's 36-year LPGA Tour run explains why the event is shutting its dissolve after a 10-month sponsor search. Including this:
Read MoreShark: The Team Loved My Fashion Choices And Want Me Back
/I would not have read Greg Norman's Shark Shootout presser if it weren't for Mike O'Malley's tweet, and boy am I glad I suffered through it to learn that the International squad wants their leader back.
Read MoreThomson Adds Karrie Webb To Design Bid
/Darius Oliver writes that "despite no evidence at all that a design company teaming with an LPGA superstar can/will produce a quality golf course, it has clearly become fashionable to champion gender equality by tacking a famous female onto your design bid."
Read MoreGolf And Weather Geeks Alert: GolfWeather.com Launches
/The site lets you enter a course or a region, covers the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Australia, and gives you golf-tailored forecasts.
Read MorePolicy Board Swaps One AT&T C-Leveler For Another
/For Immediate Release, and perhaps good news for the AT&T National's future?
Read MoreRickie, Others Coming To Q-School's Defense
/Rickie Fowler, who has been privately making the case for keeping the PGA Tour's doomed Q-School in its current form, went public today with is feelings, offering this tweet after earlier re-Tweeting Sean Martin's commentary sticking up for the PGA Tour's traditional entry path.
Read MoreEuropean Tour Pitches Tent Down Under
/I'm sure you've all gone back to relive my Golf World Monday item suggesting that the PGA Tour get over its emerging market obsession and jump on established markets like Australia where the fans love their golf and Aussie events make for great (and highly rated) prime time fall U.S. viewing.
Read MoreNorth Carolina Chandelier Distributors Reportedly Distraught As Trumps Pass On Purchase
/Thanks to reader Bill for Kerry Singe's story reporting that Team Trump will not be purchasing The Point Lake and Golf Club.
Read MoreNow We Know Tiger's Back: Donald Clarifies Totally Innocent Remark
/It was a fun two years of guys making comments about Tiger without fear of retribution in the form of a 65, but now that Tiger's finding his game again, it's fascinating to see Luke Donald backtracking on comments that were perfectly understandable and reasonable the first time around.
Read MoreChampions Skins Game Dies; Was 11
/The two-time defending champion team of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson would have been back to defend the title and will be back in the four-team field as defending champions whenever the event resumes.
"We had Nicklaus and Watson as defending champions again," Halpin said. "A sponsor not being able to take advantage of that, I think is disappointing. They got an exemption because they were the defending champions, but who wouldn't want Nicklaus and Watson back for their event?"
Probably Jack, for starters!
OWGR Folks Knew They Had A Limited Field Problem...
/Doug Ferguson explains that the folks controlling the Official World Golf Ranking have an adjustment in place to counteract the excessive impact of limited field events, but it still isn't enough to prevent a massive jump like the one Tiger made last weekend by winning the 18-player Chevron World Challenge.
Read MoreWoods Foundation Benefits More Than We Might Have Realized
/It's been well known that Tiger Woods gives his Chevron World Challenge earnings to the Tiger Woods Foundation, but wasn't as well known is his similar pledge at other events benefitting the Foundation: the AT&T National and the Deutsche Bank Championship. Doug Ferguson explains:
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