November 20, 2012

Anchoring Decision Update And An Enforcement Question

November 20, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Ron Sirak considers the upcoming decision on anchoring a putter against the torso and says the great legal minds at Force, Majeure and Breach are just buttoning up the language for the Executive Committee's consideration.

November 20, 2012

Change, Schmange: Rory Says Most Of The Equipment Today Is The Same, Made At Same Factories

November 20, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Shhhhhhhhh....Rory McIlroy, you're not supposed to say things like this when talking about tinkering with your new clubs from the, uh,

November 20, 2012

Butler National Member After Members Vote To Keep Women-Americans Out: "We're in a death spiral."

November 20, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

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.

November 20, 2012

"Rosapenna acquires St Patrick's to become 81-hole links mecca"

November 20, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

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.

November 19, 2012

Olympic Routs Kiawah In 2012 Tougest Tests List

November 19, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

PGATour.com Staff has the top 20 toughest courses on the PGA Tour and the ten easiest

November 19, 2012

San Diego Approves Funding For Torrey Pines North Redo

November 19, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Tod Leonard reported on the approval and also had this last week about plans for the North:

November 19, 2012

At Least Duck Fans Have This To Look Forward To...

November 19, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

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.

November 19, 2012

Hayes: Just One Big Aussie Event, Please

November 19, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

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.

November 19, 2012

Bloomberg Looks At For-Profit Non-Profits

November 19, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Along the same lines of

November 19, 2012

PGA Tour v. Champions Tour Players On Anchoring

November 19, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

Fun stuff from the

November 18, 2012

"The current crop of golfers were getting ready for the afterlife, one way or the other."

November 18, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

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.

November 18, 2012

"U.S. golf course openings remain at historic lows and that should continue for the foreseeable future."

November 18, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

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.

November 18, 2012

"Which brings us to The Ballad of Charlie Beljan and the most remarkable four rounds of golf ever played."

November 18, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

This beauty came from reader Chema, who saw what the

November 18, 2012

The Best Thing About Miguel Angel Jimenez's Win...

November 18, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

...making him the

November 17, 2012

Aussie Masters: Scott's Win, Kingston's Bunkers And Ill-Fitting Jackets

November 17, 2012/ Geoff Shackelford

I can't imagine Kingston Heath looking better than it did during the Talisker Australian Masters.**