The Rose Blooms at Torrey Pines

The Rose Blooms at Torrey Pines

The PGA Tour moved to its first California tour stop in San Diego, California at Torrey Pines.  The South Course at Torrey Pines is usually a pretty good test with spinachy rough and a bunch of holes that aren’t going to yield birdies especially on the back...
20th Hole Musings

20th Hole Musings

Some tidpits from the 20th Hole Scheffler wins the American Express PGA Event. There aren’t any more superlatives that you can ascribe to Scottie Scheffler.  He won this event as if he was playing by himself on a Sunday afternoon.  His attitude and demeanor are...
Professional Golf-January-2026

Professional Golf-January-2026

January is a difficult month as it’s back to reality from the spirit of the Christmas holidays and New Year celebrations.  I also equate January with depression (when I lived in England, we called it “the gloom.”)  and decided to take a business trip...
The 20th Hole

The 20th Hole

The 20th hole We’re all familiar with the 19th hole, where we celebrate or commiserate our round of golf with a hearty dose of alcohol with our playing partners and other similarly afflicted players of the day.  The 19th hole is where the bets of the day are...
End on That One

End on That One

The First Sign Something Was Wrong It’s October, 2024 and I was playing the Dunes Course at Monterey Peninsula with the Santa Clara University golf team.  I’d had a pretty good round playing with 18-year-olds striping their tee shots over 300 yards. One of...