Me And Old Man Par

In 1935, the Ridgewood Golf Club in Paramus, NJ was looking for a new Assistant Professional.  George Jacobus, the head pro at Ridgewood, himself a man well on his way to becoming a legend, asked Ed Dudley of Augusta National who he thought might be an up-and-comer, someone that might one day “become a good [...]

Tiger Woods and Elin Nordgren’s divorce has been finalized. Hopefully, that’s that and the like of TMZ.com and the National Enquirer can return to their sordid business of covering the cocaine-fueled antics of the latest pop music sensation and movie stars having affairs on the sly.  In other words, hopefully they will stop covering golf [...]

It’s no secret that it gets hot in the summer down in the south, but even by sunbelt standards, 2010 has been more far sweltering than sultry.  Thermometers have been working overtime far north of 95°F on far more days than is normal, and the latest month-long forecast is calling for more of the same [...]

The PGA of America is supposedly looking at its “business model” for future PGA Championship events.  The AP’s Doug Ferguson rightly points out that the PGA has used private or high-end golf courses for its marquee tournament of late when he says Anyone wishing to take on the Whistling Straits course where Martin Kaymer won [...]

Standing on the 18th tee, my hands got a little clammy, and to be certain of a great swing, I made sure I wiped them dry before putting my glove back on my left hand.  I addressed the ball, making sure of my grip, balance and arm position, and then I swung away.  Before I [...]

Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina could not be much more different from Whistling Straits, site of last week’s PGA Championship.  The Donald Ross-designed parklands tract was built in 1926, and has seen a virtual Who’s-Who of the greats of the game competing on its grounds.  Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, Sam [...]

The 92nd PGA Championship really turned me off to Whistling Straits, and in fact, placed it in the rare personal pantheon of courses that I loathe. I think that the Whistling Straits course is another example of the trumped up artificial design philosophy of Pete Dye taken to its extreme, and another example of the [...]

Martin Kaymer won the PGA Championship yesterday, and win it he did: he played the best golf in the 75 holes of the tournament proper and the resulting 3-hole playoff, and he was the proper winner in the gloaming of the sun setting over Lake Michigan and the 92nd PGA Championship last evening.  Let’s be [...]