Shark On America's Failure To Lead, Obama, High Taxes, Over-Regulation And The Possibility He Won't Golf Again
/Having regained his color after nearly cutting off
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.
Video: Golfer's Drone Taken Out By Canada Goose
/The Canada goose is the bain of many superintendent's existence
Read MoreVolvo Dropping Out Of Euro Tour Events A "Huge Blow"
/Sponsor's come and go but after reading James Corrigan's take on Volvo
Read MoreVideo: Billy Hurley's Silverado Hole In One
/All hole-in-ones are special but Billy Hurley's at Silverado's 15th
Read MoreLast Two Weeks In Golf Channel Ratings, September 22-October 4
/Douglas Pucci at Awful Announcing posts the last two weeks in Golf Channel ratings
Read MoreHigh Schooler Lips Out Last Putt For 8-Under-Par 28
/Andy Zunz with the details of Luis Gagne's insane score
Read MoreBrandel Digs In: Phil Did Not Tell Truth About Captain Watson
/Many wondered if Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee
Read MoreFlashback: The Legendary Driving Range Fight At Silverado
/Everyone who witnessed the fight would recount it for years. And with the PGA Tour returning to Silverado resort in Napa this week, what better time than to remember the late Dave Hill and J.C. Snead getting into a fight over driving range antics. The setting? The 1991 TransAmerica Championship on the Champions Tour (then Senior Tour) event at Silverado.
From Robert Sommers' book, Golf Anecdotes: From the Links of Scotland to Tiger Woods.
I'm not sure about the "around the range" part as the telling I've heard was far more cinematic, with Hill marching right down the range as legends of the game stopped hitting balls and watched the duel unfold.
Either way, kind of makes you wish they had cell phone video and YouTube back then!
Sandy Lyle Wins The World Hickory Open!
/Only a photo is posted at the 2014 World Hickory Open
Read MoreCallaway VP Makes Case For Second Product Launch Of '14
/As a casual observer of the Carlsbad wars, I'm fascinated to see Callaway preparing
Read MoreSlugger: Time To Bump Up The Slow Play Fine Amount
/Brian Wacker files a two-part look at the work done by rules officials,
Read MoreBill Murray On Caddying, Working On A Mystery Golf Project
/Thanks to Cameron DaSilva at
Read MoreHickory Golf: "It's almost anti-modern in some ways."
/CNN's Tom Sweetman looks at hickory golf and the World Hickory Open
Read MoreJohnny: Captain Watson "Didn’t miss all those putts.”
/Will Gray got Johnny Miller's
Read MoreThe Donald: Golf Should Be Aspirational, For The Successful
/The November Golf Digest will feature an interview (highlights here) with the uber-exposed Donald Trump as part of its "disruptors" feature and at least The Donald finally comes clean on his vision for golf: a rich man's game.
So much for those Scottish roots where the game started as very much a working man's pursuit back when they were whapping pebbles around.
On where grow-the-game efforts are flawed: "I would make golf aspirational, instead of trying to bring everybody into golf, people that are never going to be able to be there anyway. You know, they're working so hard to make golf, as they say, a game of the people. And I think golf should be a game that people want to aspire to through success."
Of course this means we have to use The Donald's definition of success, which might include wearing gold chains that would be the envy of Sammy Davis Jr., owning some hot red $500 driving moccasins and owning at least one jacket with a bold gold crest. Take that millennials!
