Truth be told, I’ve read one James Patterson volume and this one is it. I cannot tell you much about his compositional style, and how it...
The final full week of August 2024 brought some keen memories to preserve. The final major championship of the season was celebrated by the ladies in...
Across the USA, fantasy football drafts take place, while school supplies adorn shelves and leaves begin to turn color. It’s not fall for at least a...
Imagine that you’re at the hub of a wheel, with spokes that lead in every direction on the compass. That’s the wealth of story lines that...
I began to write the introductory paragraph for Friday as the back nine started to unfold. It looked like this: Round three was a tale of...
We can toss all the expectations out the window, after day two. The home-country, day-one leader ballooned to a 76 on Thursday, and fell five shots...
We first learned how cool it would be to have women and men professional golfers play the same course in 2014. That was the year that...
There is no show this week, no series this season, on Netflix, Hulu, DisneyPlus or any channel around, that could match the dramatic conclusion of Sunday’s...
Many literary texts throughout human history, both religious and secular, address the logical dichotomy of some will fall away while others rise to the challenge. Golf sums...
Day two of the Paris Olympic men’s golf competition saw a curious occurrence on repeat at the 18th. With water lurking left, golfers consistently aimed at...
For stalwart fans of the DP World Tour, Le Golf National is a known commodity. For Ryder Cup-only aficionados, LGN is an “isn’t that the course...
It nearly feels like the old days, when another men’s major remained after the Open championship. There’s a reason, but it only comes to pass every...
If golfers weren’t as humble as they are, they’d come up with trendy acronyms like G.O.A.T. and E.G.O.T #CGOTY would then stand for Champion Golf of...
It’s like being a parent. You know what will happen, but you still need to let the circumstances play out. Once the idea of rain coming...
36 holes are in the rearview mirror at Royal Troon, and the course that James Braid rebuilt in 1923 shows little interest in easing up on...
This is the week when grown men across the USA wake up as if it were a holiday, and gifts were under a tree. They set...
The second week of July brought two major championships to the professional tours. The LPGA held its Evian Championship at Evian-Les-Bains, while the PGA Tour Champions...
The 2025 Ryder Cup matches will be held over the sprawling, bruising, Long Island acreage known as Bethpage Black State Park Golf Course. The course has...
A wee bit to the north and east of my hometown is a jaunty little ‘burg called Medina, NY. No one would ever consider it to...
In non-major news (read about Amy Yang’s PGA Championship win here), the pros got together for some early, northern hemisphere-summer golf. They met in southeast but...
The only way that a four-stroke victory can be considered a blowout, is when it was a seven-shot advantage, with three holes to play. Sunday at...
The last 2024 round of the regular-tours, USA-based, major championships is upon us. Sure, we have both British Opens and the Evian Championship still to come,...
Not every shot comes off as planned, and not every golfer makes it to the weekend. As we see below, sometimes you do what has to...
The 2024 Women’s PGA Championship features a return to Sahalee, near Seattle, where Brooke Henderson won her first major title. Henderson defeated Lydia Ko in a...
Opening Act: The Amateurs There’s a balance to the universe, as Shipley gets a top USGA medal Despite their given name, Neal Shipley and Luke Clanton...
If you weren’t on the edge of your seat as Saturday afternoon’s play thread unraveled, you were certainly having a good nap. Golf at Pinehurst was...
Any weather concerns that surfaced earlier have vanished, meaning that the 2024 US Open, the 124th of its kind, will finish on time and without distraction...
I’ve posted on social media that I’m not convinced that the viewing public is ready for three U.S. Open tournaments at Pinehurst #2, over a twelve-year...
The week prior to a major championship is typically replete with anticipation … for the coming event. Not so for the first full week of June,...
One of my favorite golf writers was the late Ron Balicki, and not just for the shared first name. Balicki was called, and enjoyed, the nickname...
Five golfers reside under par, after 54 holes at the 2024 US Women’s Open. The champion will be one of those five golfers. Their names, in...
The midway point of the Women’s Open arrived on Friday evening. The cut fell at +8, with the leader at four-under par. World number one Nelly...
In a golf world obsessed with numbers, length of rough and width of fairways match importance with total yardage and scores under par. In 2015, the...
Somewhere in the annals of my golf writings, words certainly appear that express frustration, if not disdain, for the college arc of Grayson Murray. Ignorance is...
PGA Championship Sunday is a multi-tiered celebration. It begins with the identification of the top PGA professionals in the USA, and their naming to the USA...