Golf Chronicles Blog
Detry Dominates at Phoenix
The PGA Tour moved from the Signature event at Pebble Beach to the Greatest Show on Earth at the Waste Management Open in Phoenix. The modest, staid attendance at Pebble gave way to the circus like atmosphere at the TPC Stadium Course in Scottsdale. Attendance for...
McIIroy Wins the AT&T
It was a golf tournament for 63 holes. The leaderboard shifted to and fro continuously with as many as 10 players in contention. The field endured all types of weather including rain, cold, significant wind in a very haphazard fashion. Rory McIlroy was one of these...
English Grinds and Wins at Torrey Pines
The PGA Tour finally played a golf course that challenged the competitors' entire skill set at Torrey Pines. Torrey Pines is the longest course on Tour but more importantly, it has rough, and this week a mixture of challenging winds to add to the test. Par at Torrey...
TGL–I Like It
When I first heard about TGL, for some crazy reason I went back to my childhood and recalled the made for TV event-"Home Run Derby." Home Room Derby pitted the greatest sluggers in baseball in a pure home run hitting contest. Willie Mays vs. Mickey Mante, Harmon...
Professional Golf Outlook-2025
As the PGA Tour kicks off the calendar 2025 season in Hawaii at the Sentry Open at the Plantation Course in Maui, Hawaii, the state of professional golf is as unsettled as ever. PGA viewership is down by double-digits as the schism with the LIV Tour enters another...
Monterey Peninsula–14th Hole
Mother Nature is indifferent and takes no prisoners. I can recall when the cypress tree on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach died a natural death. That tree had guarded the 18th for many a year and often prohibited players from reaching the closing hole in 2 shots....
Twas the Night Before Christmas-2024
Twas the Night Before Christmas Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house-not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that badges for the Masters would be there. The children were nested...
Ryder Cup–A New Low
I used to love the Ryder Cup matches especially after the European professionals joined the GB&I players to join the competition. The US dominated the matches throughout the history of the Cup but the addition of the European contingent evened things up. The...
Santa Clara University Golf Center
In the latter part of 2022, Andrew Larkin, Santa Clara University golf coach, approached me with the idea and plans for a golf facility on the Santa Clara University campus. The idea was a good one but when I reviewed the plans, I thought it might not be a permanent...
Bryson DeChambeau Brings Joy to the Game
We enter the Thanksgiving period and for my golf game, not much to be thankful for. I've been diagnosed with a degenerating arthritic left hip, which makes golf an untenable experience. I'm playing anyway but have had to move up to the forward tees as the body is...
Instruction
I'm bored and injured, a double whammy as I haven't been able to play golf for the past four weeks. I last played with the Santa Clara University (SCU) golf team and the Loyola Marymount University golf team (LMU) at Monterey Peninsula Country Club on two separate...
Golf Meanderings
The State of Professional Golf The 2024 golf season is over and the new PGA season is in its infancy. Players are competing to earn their tour card and enter the promised land of competitive golf. It's interesting and actually sad that there have been no...
US Wins The President’s Cup (again)!
After all the yelling and screaming, catcalls, and general unruly fan behavior, which is typical for these type of events, the USA bludgeoned the Internationals again with the strike of Thor's hammer. The USA has now won every one of these events, but one, and you...
Rhode Island Golf & LIV
Rhode Island Golf Wannamoisette Golf Club We arrived at Wannamoisette Golf Club on 9/17 for a tournament sponsored by The Golf Journal. I had finally won a lottery, whereby subscribers to The Golf Journal, enter to earn a spot in a national event. Wannamoisette is...
Scheffler Marches Through Georgia
Scottie Scheffler completed his remarkable season with a wire to wire victory at the Tour Championship at East Lake. East Lake was no match for the top 30 players of the year as hot humid weather with little to no wind offered no challenge to these players as the...