Video: The Down Under (Water) Hole In One
/Nice spot by Jason Crook at GolfChannel.com
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.
Happy 82nd Birthday, Augusta National
/The opening was announced with a postcard noting the January 13th, 1933 opening, as many of the available-at-auction postcards over the years remind us.
My personal favorite from the Green Jacket Auction team was mailed and postmarked. It also only sold for $203 last month. Ugh!
Commish Killjoy Strikes! Bans Throwing Items To Phoenix Fans
/Two years ago he put a stop to the caddy races
Read MorePhiladelphia Cricket Club Lands 2020 Four-Ball
/Outside of greater Philadelphia I suspect no one cares where the USGA's new Four-Ball
Read MoreDrive, Chip & Putt 2016 Coming To All-Star Venues
/I'm not sure exactly why but I'm recklessly speculating that the Drive, Chip And Putt
Read MoreVideo (Awkward): Miss Universe Contestants Golfing
/The Miami Herald has posted
Read More'15 Tournament Of Champions Primed For A Fun Finish
/Soak up your last chance at PGA Tour players on a Coore and Crenshaw design for another year
Read MoreOlympic Golf Course Finished, Protest Group Sets Up Shop
/Architect Gil Hanse confirmed on
Read MoreVideo: Trick Shot Best Of From Germany's The Courooons
/Yes, three o’s in Courooons for those of you spellchecking at home. They play tennis, they don't shave, they probably wear sunglasses at night, and their jeans are about to fall off their waists. So they're cool.
Here is their latest tennis trick shot video set (loudly) to Aloe Blacc's The Man. And a little more about them.
Thanks to Kyle Porter for spotting the first legit threat to the Bryan Brothers in the trick shot video division.
My personal favorite comes at the 20 second mark:
Jeb Bush: "Golf would not be dying if more people played the way we play out here"
/Douglas Hanks at the Miami Herald profiles the former Florida governor
Read MoreNecrology, 2014
/Nothing is as sobering as starting the year off remembering how many fascinating,
Read MoreRory Loves Marshawn's Bad Attitude Toward The Media
/Rory McIlroy's evolution of a public figure appears to have taken the inevitable ominous turn
Read MoreBehind The Scenes: Watson v. Mickelson At The Ryder Cup
/Jaime Diaz of Golf Digest pieces together the
Read MoreR&A On Verge Of BBC-Sky Decision
/You may recall at last summer's R&A press conference that Peter Dawson
Read MoreRory Doesn't Have To Wipe His Phones Any Longer
/The judge in his upcoming trial has ruled that Rory McIlroy does not have to provide
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