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It's the eve of the 2020 Masters and the tournament is generating as much interest as we've seen in years.  Last week, the professionals had a gallery at the tune-up for the event-the Shell Houston Open.  In my previous post, I had commented that I believed that the...

The ZOZO Open was played at Sherwood Country Club in the Los Angeles Area this past week.  The ZOZO Open was originally supposed to be played in Japan as a PGA Tour event but the pandemic forced its relocation to the US.  ZOZO is the sponsor and is a large Japanese...

I think we can say the year 2020 has been a disastrous year for the world.  One bright spot has been the game of golf, which has been able to conduct a weird schedule with some very good play.  We did miss the Open Championship as it would have been impossible to get...

I had predicted that the winner of the US Open would be Winged Foot Golf Club.  The course soundly defeated 143 players except one-Bryson DeChambeau.  The narrow fairways hellacious rough and fast greens eventually ripped the field to shreds as no one could break par...

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict the winner of the 2020 US Open will be Winged Foot Country Club.  This is probably one of the few times where the professionals are actually concerned about playing a golf course.  I am predicting carnage with a winning score...

Dustin Johnson won the Fed Ex Cup capping a very successful season.  Johnson demonstrated that you really have to pay attention to your game at this level.  As the incoming medalist to the event at East Lake in Atlanta starting the tournamentwith a two stroke lead...

The game of golf continues to produce results which are predictable but also improbable.  The 2020 British Women's Open conducted at Royal Troon produced an a winner who had never won on the LPGA. Sophia Popov from Germany was playing in her fourth major event and had...

Golf Rules Disaster The US Amateur USGA Championship was held at the Bandon Dunes course at Bandon Dunes, Oregon.  In the round of 16 match play event, a tragic event occurred on the final hole of the final match of the day.  The match between Segundo Oliva Pinto and...

Collin Morikawa won the PGA Championship emerging from a crowded big name leaderboard to shoot 64 and take home the Wanamaker Trophy. The tournament will be forever remembered by Morikawa's tee shot on the drivable 291 yard par 4. His tee shot was absolutely perfect...

Katherine Zu Katherine recently completed her Freshman year at Cal Berkeley with a golf season ended by the pandemic.  Katherine entered Cal from the Harker Academy high school  in San Jose and she has had an outstanding career in junior golf.  She now holds the...

We've been living through a difficult time in our lives since the end of February and the closure of golf was a real body blow.  I was hitting 5 irons from my Spyglass back yard into the virgin fairway on the 13th hole and then picking up the balls as if I were...

The Memorial The Memorial Tournament was played in Dublin Ohio on the same course (Muirfield Village) as the previous week's workday event. It certainly didn't seem to be the same as the course was far more difficult than the prior week. In the final round only 2...

=PGA Event--Workday Charity Open-Dublin, Ohio Last week's PGA event at Jack's course in Ohio produced an exciting conclusion but it was a very weird event.  Usually tournaments are won through spectacular play or a competitor falters at the end of the event.  In this...

The PGA Tour continued this week at the Rocket Mortgage event in Detroit, Michigan without fans.  The players have seemed to gotten used to the absence of fans and if you judge by the scoring, it seems to be a positive factor.  Through the third round, every...

The Travelers at TPC River Highlands The Travelers at TPC Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut  is usually just another tour stop on the PGA Tour with many of the "big name" players skipping the event.  During the pandemic, our quest for live sport has given this...