Golf Chronicles Blog
Rory McIlroy Decides?
Rory McIlroy has been an outspoken critic of the LIV Tour and the impact it has had on professional golf. McIlroy would have been a big fish catch for LIV, and I'm sure they made a serious run at him. McIlroy has had a very successful career on the PGA Tour and so...
Shanksville
The following is an excerpt from my new "yet to be published" book following the chapter covering the Shanks in my first book..Golf Chronicles. Where is Shanksville? No one seems to know and it might be located nearby the Corona Country Club. It is the valley of...
Waste Management Phoenix Open–The Jig is Up
Unfortunately, the winner of the Waste Management Phoenix Open was the secondary story of the event. Nick Taylor persevered to a well earned win on the second playoff hole over Charley Hoffman. The Waste Management Phoenix Open has been professional golf's answer to...
The AT&T Washout
Apparently the gods of golf were not happy with the new "designated event" status of the AT&T pro-am. The Pineapple Express and other storm activity killed the event on Saturday after the conclusion of the third round, as the storms brought high winds and rain...
The 2024 Season (yawn….)
I must admit that I miss not seeing Jon Rahm. The 2024 season is off to the usual boring start in Hawaii with scores as low as the current state of the California snow pack. The Tour season doesn't really start for me until the professionals reach Torrey Pines in...
The End of the Clambake
Professional golf is become more and more disconnected from the average player Professional golf used to be spared from the scandal, bad vibes, huge contracts and greed and disruption of all the other spectator sports (football, basketball, baseball etc.). In...
Twas the Night Before Christmas-2023
Twas the Night Before Christmas Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house-not a creature was stirring-not even an LIV mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care-in hopes that reservation vouchers for Bandon Dunes would be there. The...
Scheffler is the Winner but Tiger is the Hero
Scottie Schleffer had a walk on the shore and navigated four consecutive rounds in the 60's to take home a huge pile of cash for Christmas presents at the Hero Challenge at the Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. The event is not a PGA Tour sanctioned tournament and was...
Golf is Hard
Golf Is Hard Its the first tee at Pine Valley Bunkers and junk everywhere; Intimidation and fear in the air. How to navigate perhaps the most difficult course in the land? Where virtually every shot may end up in the sand. Golf is Hard Its the first tee at Pebble...
Golf in Massachusetts
Essex Country Club It's the third week of October and an explosion of brown, green, orange and red leaves are beginning to fall from the trees. It's a quiet time of the year leading to the revelry that will soon be Halloween. It's the time of the year when the New...
Europe Roars– Retakes the Ryder Cup
It wasn't even close. It was over by the end of the first day, Team Europe manhandled the USA taking a 5 point lead, which they would never relinquish. Europe routed the US team in one of the most savage beatings since the Lions devoured the Christians in the Roman...
Ryder Cup–Team Europe Will Win
The Ryder Cup or Circus Maximus will be played next week at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club just outside of Rome. I'm predicting a European rout over the USA very similar to the last affair where the USA routed Team Europe. While as a partisan patriotic...
Ryder Cup 2023
With the Tour Championship decided and in the rear view mirror, the next major event is the Ryder Cup. I used to really like the Ryder Cup until it became a jingoistic carnival of drunken galleries and badly designed player attire. The current Ryder Cup gallery would...
Hovland Blitzes the Field at the Tour Championship
Viktor Hovland roared through the top 30 players on the PGA Tour in 2023 to win the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. Hovland's 27 under par ,starting with his second place position of 8 under par, shot 19 under par on a pretty difficult...
US Amateur/BMW Championship
The US Amateur Championship The US Amateur Championship concluded this past Sunday with Nick Dunlap from the University of Alabama besting Neal Shipley from Ohio St. The venue was at Cherry Hills Country Club, which has historically hosted some important...