Change, Schmange: Rory Says Most Of The Equipment Today Is The Same, Made At Same Factories
/Shhhhhhhhh....Rory McIlroy, you're not supposed to say things like this when talking about tinkering with your new clubs from the, uh,
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.
Butler National Member After Members Vote To Keep Women-Americans Out: "We're in a death spiral."
/Teddy Greenstein on the membership at Butlern National voting to keep it a male only club, essentially eliminating the Chicago layout from any consideration for major tournaments.
Read More"Rosapenna acquires St Patrick's to become 81-hole links mecca"
/Brian Keogh reports on the acquisition of the 370-acre Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort formerly known as St. Patrick's Golf Links. Besides having existing golf with design touches from Old Tom and Pat Ruddy, the sale includes an 800-acre dunes system that might lead to more golf holes.
Read MoreOlympic Routs Kiawah In 2012 Tougest Tests List
/PGATour.com Staff has the top 20 toughest courses on the PGA Tour and the ten easiest
Read MoreSan Diego Approves Funding For Torrey Pines North Redo
/Tod Leonard reported on the approval and also had this last week about plans for the North:
Read MoreAt Least Duck Fans Have This To Look Forward To...
/After losing to Stanford at home in the College Football Lose-Early Bowl Championship Series, Oregon is likely out of the national title hunt but hey, $25 million and some favorable planning commission votes later, they could have a Tom Fazio design under construction by 2014. The $25 million includes an endowment to maintain the course and presumably to prepare the inevitable Fazio touch-up after everyone gives up trying to find interesting design features.
Read MoreHayes: Just One Big Aussie Event, Please
/Mark Hayes speaks for a lot of people in urging Aussies to figure out a way to have at least one big event perhaps instead of trying to put together a string of tournaments to attract top players.
Read MoreBloomberg Looks At For-Profit Non-Profits
/Along the same lines of
Read MorePGA Tour v. Champions Tour Players On Anchoring
/Fun stuff from the
Read More"The current crop of golfers were getting ready for the afterlife, one way or the other."
/Thanks to reader John for John Paul Newport's Saturday WSJ column on the increasingly strange world of college golf, where massive sums are invested to prepare golfers for, as Newport points out, either the PGA Tour or country club life after college.
Read More"U.S. golf course openings remain at historic lows and that should continue for the foreseeable future."
/The NGF says rounds are up 7.4% through September and "nearly every state experienced a gain versus 2011," noting increased consumer confidence for the improvements.
Read More"Which brings us to The Ballad of Charlie Beljan and the most remarkable four rounds of golf ever played."
/This beauty came from reader Chema, who saw what the
Read MoreThe Best Thing About Miguel Angel Jimenez's Win...
/...making him the
Read MoreAussie Masters: Scott's Win, Kingston's Bunkers And Ill-Fitting Jackets
/I can't imagine Kingston Heath looking better than it did during the Talisker Australian Masters.**
Read MoreThe Donald Moving Forward With Second Scottish Course
/Daily Express writer Paula Murray reports on plans moving forward for a second course at Trump International Links near Aberdeen.
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