The 20th Hole

We enter the Thanksgiving period and for my golf game, not much to be thankful for.  I've been diagnosed with a degenerating arthritic left hip, which makes golf an untenable experience.  I'm playing anyway but have had to move up to the forward tees as the body is...

I'm bored and injured, a double whammy as I haven't been able to play golf for the past four weeks.  I last played with the Santa Clara University (SCU) golf team and the Loyola Marymount University golf team (LMU) at Monterey Peninsula Country Club on two separate...

The State of Professional Golf The 2024 golf season is over and the new PGA season is in its infancy.  Players are competing to earn their tour card and enter the promised land of competitive golf.  It's interesting and actually sad that there have been no...

After all the yelling and screaming, catcalls, and general unruly fan behavior, which is typical for these type of events, the USA bludgeoned the Internationals again with the strike of Thor's hammer.  The USA has now won every one of these events, but one,  and you...

Rhode Island Golf Wannamoisette Golf Club We arrived at Wannamoisette Golf Club on 9/17 for a tournament sponsored by The Golf Journal.  I had finally won a lottery, whereby subscribers to The Golf Journal, enter to earn a spot in a national event.  Wannamoisette is...

Scottie Scheffler completed his remarkable season with a wire to wire victory at the Tour Championship at East Lake.  East Lake was no match for the top 30 players of the year as hot humid weather with little to no wind offered no challenge to these players as the...

The Women's Open Championship returned to the Old Course at St. Andrews for the fourth time. It would be a stern test of survival for the best women players in the world as the gods of golf produced the worst playing conditions imaginable for four days. Conditions...

St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless cases and desperate causes.  The Fed Ex St. Jude Championship may have had invoked the disciple of Jesus at the final round of the first leg of the race to the Tour Championship.  Hideki Matsuyama was cruising to victory as he...

Royal Troon with assistance from Mother Nature and the gods of golf put on one of the most exciting Open Championships in recent memory. Before we delve into the details of this wonderful affair, congratulations to Xander Schauffle on his brilliant victory. Xander...

On June 1, 16 players affiliated with the Pebble Beach Beach Club arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland to commence an odyssey that would cover five golfing venues.  The players ranged in ages from mid 40's to 85! The trip had been professionally arranged six months earlier...

In the end it was a battle of two giants at one of America's hallowed halls of golf-Pinehurst No. 2. Bryson DeChambeau emerged victorious over a dejected and tragic Rory McIlroy who bogied 3 out of the last four holes including putts of 30 inches and 3 feet to succumb...

It is 4:43 PM on Thursday, May 30 and the long anticipated trip to Scotland for 12 days of golf at Royal Dornoch, St. Andrews, North Berwick and others is about to become reality. The getaway week has been spent carefully packing clubs, clothes and all the necessities...

Xander Schauffele knew that the final round of the PGA Championship would be one of the most competitive rounds of the year with a virtual hornet's nest of top names-DeChambeau, Hovland, Morikawa, Rose, Lowry contending.   The golf course would provide no defense as...

We're here in New Zealand playing one of the world's top 100 international courses at Cape Kidnappers in Hawkes Bay.  This is my second trip here as we were last here in 2015.  I didn't remember much about the course except the signature 15th hole, which stands 500...

After months of a fairly boring 2024 professional golf tour, the golfing world finally turned to Augusta National for the annual Rite of Spring.  For the next five days, we could tune out the LIV/PGA shuffle and the whole child-like sordid affair that is diminishing...