The 20th Hole

Brooks Koepka won his second consecutive US Open title at Shinnecock Hills and becomes the first player since Curtis Strange to win back to back titles.  I hadn't expected Koepka to win here at Shinnecock for two reasons:  1.  It is an improbable event to win back to...

The 2018 US Open Championship will be played at Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, Long Island, New York.  This event should be a "doozy" this year especially in light of the previous Open held there in 2004.  Shinnecock is a classic links course amongst a number of...

The US Women's Open I always like tuning into the U.S. Women's Open but I had forgotten that the broadcast belongs to Fox.  OMG!--Joe Buck doing Women's Golf--horrible beyond belief.  West Coast fans tend to take a significant dislike to Buck's broadcasting of Major...

The Byron Nelson Classic was played for years at the wonderful Los Colinas Club at the Four Seasons Resort in North Dallas.  The tournament was moved to a new site in South Dallas at the Trinity Forest Golf Club (TFGG).  TFGG is actually a links course so I found a...

  The topics in this blog seem to be disconnected.  We chronicle the emotional diatribes of Sergio Garcia in recent tour events and the achievements of three amateurs in their high school and collegiate careers.  The connection is the potential emotions that...

Coming into Sunday, Rory McElroy believed he had an edge on Patrick Reed.  McElroy had won all of the other majors and this would be a career grand slam putting him into some elite company in golf history.  McElroy said as much to the press stating that although he...

The 2018 Masters Augusta National is the common denominator as the same course in the first major of the year.  All of the other majors have rotational venues.  Augusta is set up virtually the same way every year--no rough, fast greens, running fairways etc.  Augusta...

The headline for this blog post might be the only place where Paul Casey gets some recognition.  The story of this tournament was the continued comeback of Tiger Woods who nearly pulled off the victory on Sunday.  It was another exciting PGA event which coerces me to...

I have written in my book about Golf's Pyramid of Competitiveness  where the symmetry between mental and physical skill and prowess impacts success in competitive golf.  I still believe that Jack Nicklaus is the best player of all time because he was able to master...

I couldn't resist.  Steve Young, Hall of Fame quarterback for the San Francisco 49'ers holed his chip off the green at the AT&T Pro-Am for a birdie 2.  Steve is a 14 handicap and seems to be enjoying golf more these days and this type of shot certainly brings you...

The stage was set for the final round at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday.  Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Rahm and Phil Mikelsen were all on top of the leaderboard to take down the leader-Tom Potter.  Who is Tom Potter?  He shot 62 at MPCC  on Saturday and had...

There are two very distinct highlights for this week's AT&T Pro-AM at Pebble Beach, California.  The first is the weather, which is the best I have ever seen here.  Temperatures are in the high seventies and there is little to no wind so you would think that the...

2018 marks the return of an injury-free Tiger Woods.  Questions persisted as to his ability to make a comeback that most fans relish.  The venue for this PGA event was Torrey Pines in San Diego, California.   Torrey Pines is among the finest public golf courses in the...

The first tour event is always the Tournament of Champions played in Kapalua, Hawaii.  The event features all 34 players who won in 2017 on the PGA Tour and the top 5 in the World Rankings.   Notably absent from this list was last year's winner Justin Thomas and...

We played in the Pebble Beach Homeowner's Tournament yesterday at the venerable Pebble Beach Golf Links.  It was my tenth consecutive year of playing in this event.  The tournament is sponsored by the Pebble Beach Company and it is for homeowners within the 17 Mile...