Insanity Redefined: Aus PGA Uses Same Playoff Hole 7 Times
/I understand that it's a cliché to wheel out the "definition of insanity
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.
Review: The Fox Sports Golf Debut
/There must have been a reason Joe Buck opened Fox Sports' first golf telecast with an apology
Read MoreTrevino: “You can't name me a guy with a plus record that's playing the Ryder Cup right now.”
/The PNC Father-Son starts Saturday and former major winners and their kids tee it up
Read MoreVideo: Bird Cleanly Steals Ball At Aussie PGA
/The gull who tried to take Steve Lowery's
Read MoreMonty: Rory Better Now Than Tiger Ever Was!
/Chris Cutmore quotes Colin Montgomerie
Read MoreCouples On Phil's Ryder Cup Benching: "Are you kidding me?"
/Joe Passov was at the unveiling of a 6-hole kids course designed by Brian Curley
Read MoreNoteworthy Pebble Beach Tree Goes Down In Winter Storm
/John Strege with the lowdown on the small cypress tree that went down at Pebble Beach's iconic finishing hole. 
The tree was one of two planted down the fairway in 2004 when two trees on 18 were diseased and also out of play due to the elite, Olympic-caliber athletes now playing the game, unlike in the past.
One of the two cypress trees in the landing area of the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links was toppled Thursday by strong winds that were a part of what the National Weather Service predicted would be one of Northern California’s strongest storms in years.
The photo below, a screenshot taken during the storm from Pebble Beach’s Live Cam looking down the 18th fairway, shows the downed tree in the upper left-hand corner.
In a later post Strege reports that winter conditions will preclude a replacement tree prior to the AT&T National Pro-Am and also features a close up photo of the downed tree.
Rory's Three Closest Confidants Called Out In Case
/Tim Healy reports on day three of the pre-trial proceedings in Rory McIlroy v. Horizon
Read More“Playoff change still leaves questions”
/Beginning with...does anyone care enough at this point to get annoyed that the FedExCup
Read MoreRory Trial..."Fireworks when the case goes to trial"
/Brian Keogh of the Irish Golf Desk spent the last two days setting in Court 18
Read MoreNorman On Fox Debut: “I think going in I’ll be as nervous as I was walking the first tee at Augusta National"
/If we're talking 1996 nervous then Saturday's debut of Fox Sports
Read MoreRory's Lawyers: No Conspiracy Here
/Tim Healy reports after a morning of court proceedings that Rory's legal team
Read MorePrayers Answered: Ryder Cup Task Force Meets!
/The Ryder Cup Task Force has pulled to even in the PGA Of America Task Force Derby.
Read MoreAdam: Leave Olympic Golf To The Amateurs
/Add Adam Scott to the list of players (not) wildly excited about Olympic golf
Read MoreRory Wiped Up To Eight Phones In Fear Of...Journalists!?
/Tim Healy in the Irish Times reports on the latest discovery battle
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