The 20th Hole

While Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson are duking it out for the World No. 1 spot in Shanghai, China this week, something more important was taking place at Cordevalle GC in San Martin, California.  It was the Steve Young-Jerry Rice Golf Tournament benefiting the...

One of the benefits about writing about golf is the opportunity to generate revenue to support college golf programs,  The First Tee organization and other charities that benefit children.  I firmly believe that golf and education make good partners as the game adds...

The feedback from last week's blog on the Ryder Cup was amazing so here goes Round 2 summarizing some comments from my "base." The USA players don't really care about the Cup.  They say they do but they had an opportunity to experience the course by playing in the...

The European team stomped on Jim Furyk's U.S. squad with a convincing 17 1/2--10 1/2 victory which was one of the more significant beatings in the history of this event.  So what happened?  The United States had a tremendous team of champions that had been playing...

I usually have never used the site to market things before but I'm making an exception for The First Tee of Silicon Valley.  The First Tee is holding a raffle for a package to see the first two practice days at the 2019 Masters.  The package includes lodging, food,...

Tiger Woods has had quite a year-actually he's had a terrific 3 months.  While playing decently but not contending in the first half of 2018, Tiger persisted and was determined to find "it"  and find "it" he did.  He started the year with the satisfaction that he was...

My second golf book "Through the Green" was published last week by Outskirts Press which is the same publisher as the first book, "Golf Chronicles."  .  This book took 20 months from concept to publication as compared to 3+ years for Golf Chronicles.  The book is...

The professional world of golf has had a pretty exciting year in 2018 with exciting major championships, the comeback of Tiger Woods, the development of a new crop of exciting young players such as Jordan Speith, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and the prospect of a...

The PGA Championship brings some feelings of ambivalence for me for the designation of this tournament as a "major."  On one hand, it's a championship that features the best players in the world taking dead aim at being the best in their craft.  Scores are usually...

The lazy days of August are upon us as the world of golf prepares for its large major of the year-the PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.  This weekend completed the Ladies British Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes and the PGA Tour Stop at...

Francisco Molinari claimed the Open Championship and became the first Italian golfer to win a major championship.  His mentor, Constantino Rocca, lost a playoff in 1995 to John Daly at St. Andrews.  Rocca got into the playoff by holing an incredible birdie putt from...

Carnoustie's conditions presented a unique form of "moving day" with scoring conditions for the professionals optimized.  There was no wind (until the very end of the day) to speak of, prior day's spits of rain slowed the pace of the greens considerably to a stimp...

Next week, the Open Championship returns to Carnouiste where it's best to describe golf as just plain "hard."  It is also the 20th anniversary of the 1999 event where Jean Van de Velde surrendered a three shot lead on the 72nd hole of the tournament.  This was indeed...

Avid golfers play a lot of competitive golf and all of us play in a number of charity golf tournaments or club tournaments that are very competitive.  I decided to cover my experience at the Bandon Dunes Links Championship in Oregon this past week. The event is little...

Last week during the Third Round of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, Phil Mickelson surprised us all by chasing after a putt he hit on the 13th hole a little too hard that would have rolled off the green but....Mickelsen chased after the putt, caught up to the ball...