"So Comcast is doubling down on sports."
/There isn't much golf in Douglas Alden Warshaw's
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
A Worse Case Scenario For The OWGR: Voting!
/Long-suffering readers know I'm not a fan of the over-reliance of the Official World Golf Ranking to determine fields because of the safety net created by getting in the top 50
Read MoreLeader Bubba "Not A Big Fan" Of Doral's 18th
/It's been hard to get excited about the limited field cash grab at the TPC Blue Trump Monster Doral, but second round leader Bubba Watson seems to be setting himse
Read MoreVA Gov Greets Obama With A Golf Glove?
/Michael Scherer reports that Virginia Governor and Republican Vice Presidential hopeful Bob McDonnell
Read MoreFriday Photo Caption Fun: The Donald And Gil
/Golf Channel cameras picked up Donald Trump ratcheting up the greater Miami wind speeds by sharing suggestions with Gil Hanse for their 2013 redo of Doral. Or he's directing a plane into the gate. Either way, Gil isn't saying much, but what's The Donald saying?
"He's of good country stock and he's pretty resilient."
/Ben Everill (who broke the news on Twitter) and Melissa Woods
Read MorePaper Of Record: "Olympic Design To Alcott"
/Yesterday I wasn't sure if
Read MoreNobilo On Q-School Demise
/Considering he's such a passionate on-air presence who nearly always convinces me of his point, I expected a much more impassioned case for killing Q-School as an avenue to the PGA Tour from Frank Nobilo. But
Read MoreGolf Digest Podcast: Olympic Design Derby In Review
/You can always subscribe at iTunes and have Golf Digest's podcasts download right to your device, or you can listen in here as Sam Weinman and I spend about 15 minutes discussing yesterday's Olympic design announcement.
Listen to the podcast
Lyle's Leukemia Returns
/Terrible news for one golf's best men, Jarrod Lyle.
Read MoreDJ's Crane Shot On Doral's 18th
/Look out, incoming, or is that
Read MoreThe Donald Woos Golf Scribes With Hair, Gardening Talk
/But boy is he eager to not use that TPC name that is part of the course's current contract with the PGA Tour!
Read MoreHanse's "Picturesque" Landscape Comment
/I noticed on comments here and in other discussion threads that a few folks stumbled when reading Gil Hanse's press release reference to a "picturesque landscape" for the Rio Olympic course design. It was not a frilly reference to golf course theatrics, but in fact, an homage to an aesthetic approach to landscape design espoused by figures like Humphry Repton, John Ruskin and Frederick Law Olmsted, and an influential philosophy on golf architects Alister MacKenzie and C.B. Macdonald.
If interested, you can read up about the picturesque school at Wikipedia.
And as for that picturesque landscape, it might be easier to visualize the Hanse design for the site by looking at this overlay of map and aerial photo posted on Hanse's site.
RTJ II To Undertake Poppy Hills II
/Always love to hear about architects getting another chance to get it right, just pulls on my heart-strings I tell ya.
Read MoreHanse-Rio Design Announcement Clippings
/Full disclosure, oh screw it! You already know. Boy was this was an extra-fun clippings roundup to put together...
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