The 20th Hole

Thursday was the beginning of the iconic AT&T Pro-AM, the best such event on the PGA where amateurs are guaranteed to play at least 3 rounds with the partnered professional with a Saturday night cut line that will enable 20 of them to play on Sunday in front of a...

For me, Super Bowl Sunday is similar to New Year's Eve--enforced gaiety.  People who haven't watched a football game all year congregate with chips, dips, beers and spirits for an event they have little care about and probably don't even know the teams that are...

Spent the weekend in Scottsdale, Arizona area.  My friend, Jack Cook, and I played the TPC Champions Course on Saturday and Grayhawk on Sunday.  The Champions course is adjacent to one of my favorite venues--the TPC Stadium Course.  We couldn't play the Stadium course...

The First Tee is an outstanding organization which brings the game of golf to those who cannot afford it and teaches the values and etiquette that the game honors.  Lessons learned on the golf course are lessons that can be applied in life.  We hope to bring Golf...

My friend, Harvey Wagner, and I played Trump Ferry Point in New York City.  It's a links course with views of the Whitestone Bridge.  In true Trumpian humility, the website states "for this to become the greatest public golf course and facility in New York City."  Of...

January has been a virtual wipe-out for golf in Northern California.  The region has been doused with significant rainfall and now courses have had to close.  Good for our region (save the flooding, road damage and power outages) to alleviate the severe drought...

Arnold Palmer's last book is a series of vignettes and stories divided into three sections:  Golf, Business and Life.  The book is direct and written from the heart of a man that was able to capitalize on his considerable golfing skills and leverage those skills into...

While the PGA completes the Tournament of Champions in Hawaii, the Web.com tour started its tournament at Exhuma, Bahamas at the Emerald Isles course designed by Greg Norman.  While the top guys were making tons of birdies in Hawaii, conditions in the Bahamas were...

The PGA Tour starts its season at the Tournament of Champions at the Plantation Course on the Island of Maui in Hawaii.  The Plantation Course is a par 73, 7,400 yard venue.  Yardage matters little to the touring professional as some drives today were over 350 yards....

Golf Chronicles was featured in The New York Times with a visual from Times Square.  A terrific gift for the golfer that has everything especially after all the gifts have been distributed.  Catch the photo in the "Photos" section of the website.

12/30/16-The Club at Crazy Horse Ranch Played Crazy Horse, a semi-private enclave in Salinas, California with a good friend of mine and three other members.  I really enjoyed the experience not only from the company of playing with four very good players but the...

Frost delay at Pebble Beach driving range-35 degrees at 8AM.  Tournament got off on time but it was coldddddd and windyyyyyyy! We started on the 14th hole (550 yard-par 5) and I started off with a poor tee shot only 175 yards down the left side of the fairway.  After...

We'll be playing Monday at Pebble Beach Golf Links in the annual homeowner's tournament.  The competition is a team event-two best balls of the foursome.  In 2014, we won the event and last year finished second.  We'll see what happens this year--very cold here in the...

Our 10:12 tee time at Cordevalle was greeted with douses of light rain so we decided to start and move on.  With the proper rain gear, rain hat and potential need for rain gloves, playing in the rain should be no problem.  By the end of the first hole, light rain...

Returned home from New York on Friday pretty exhausted after a week of meetings and conference calls.  There was no golf practice and I was yearning to get out there.  Without a tee time, I set off for Cordevalle GC on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.  I am a member of...