“To stimulate friendly rivalry among the women golfers of many lands.” That’s the essence of the Curtis Cup, donated over a century ago by sisters Margaret...
If statistics are your thing, chew on these numbers. The sum total of the world rankings for Team GBI equals 344. Team USA checks in at...
It’s important to understand the playing field, and to then reveal the characters and the story line that featured on day one of the 2022 Curtis...
June walked in with the first USGA Women’s Open with a presenting sponsor, and by all accounts, it was a big and special thing. The tournament...
Today is Memorial Day across the United States of America. Nearly 25 places across the country lay claim to the day’s origina, but one thing is...
Justin Thomas won the 2022 PGA Championship in a playoff. We’ll get to the trappings and the trimmings, but first, a nod to those who did...
It’s hard to say whether the weather outsmarted the grounds crew, but after the low rounds of Friday, something gave. Were the greens a bit slicker?...
The hatchet man came a-calling on Friday evening in Tulsa. He set the cut at four over par, the equivalent of 144 strokes over two days...
I write to you from Buffalo, New York. We are a city that has been in the national news this week for a horrific reason. Our...
The most awaited golf book of 2022 is titled “Phil: the Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized) Biography of Golf’s most Colorful Superstar,” featuring a look at Phil Mickelson’s life...
For the first time in forever, spring took hold of all of the USA this week. There were storms, but those storms all brought rain, and...
It was an international week for winners on five of the world’s professional golf tours. Tournaments were held in eastern Spain, western Mexico, California, Texas, and...
The final Sunday in April of 2022 saw five winners confirmed and crowned across the golf-tour globe. No win was more dominant than the LPGA, and...
Long before the term vibe became standard in the lexicon of multiple generations, South Carolina’s low country essentially owned the rights to its essence. Imagine being the...
…in a bunker, wet sand, 218 yards from the green, blocked from going for the green by bushes, an oak tree, a lake, and common sense....
Inconceivable. Not the victory. We’ll get to that. Inconceivable that someone would suggest on social media that Tiger Woods withdraw from the final round, to save...
Consider Saturday to be the first act of a two-act thriller. The winds continued to gust at Bobby Jones’ place in Augusta, Georgia. With their currents...
It is a tall task to consider how many golfers had at least a share of the lead on day two at the 2022 Masters. Im...
About the only thing missing from the first round at the Masters was the late Tim Rosaforte. The docent of golf scribes passed in January. His...
The world of golf has its eyes on a corner of Georgia, but that harbinger of spring is still 10 days away. The focus this week...
In two of three events this week, the gods of golf were not kind to the overnight leader. No matter how hard you try to delude...
Don’t let anyone tell you that the wretched weather of Thursday and Friday was the only story at The Players championship. Every time you turned right,...
There are times when our eyes and ears cannot believe the story that has been presented to us. Not the winds and firmness of Bay Hill,...
It was a light week of professional golf, as the world watched the worst of humanity unfold. If aficionados were able to turn from the tragedy in...
Three of the world’s larger tours (LPGA, Asian, and DP World) took much of February off. Fortunately, four PGA Tour circuits (Main, Korn Ferry, Champions, and...
It cannot be easy to be an athlete this month. With great global conflict rising from the improbable to the possible, the ability to focus on...
Warning: You are about to see the most amazing eagle putt for victory that anyone could ever conceive. If you cannot wait to read the final...
The term “outreach” has the general American lexicon with verve over the past decade. Nearly every organization has appointed a person or team to spread not...
They spoiled me again, those tournament organizers. One tournament concluded on Wednesday, another on Saturday, a third early Sunday, and two more mid-day Sunday. That’s my...
And just like that, we have five tournaments to report! 2022 is only three weeks old, but it may have just presented a blueprint for how...
The second week of 2022 professional golf on the US PGA Tour saw the traveling band remain in Hawaii, albeit only after a move from the...
As the rime traces its stencil across my window, I imagine that the warmth and trade winds of the Hawaiian islands must feel nice this time...
“I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal. People know me. I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and...
In January, I published a bit on 10 stories that I’d love to cover in 2021. You can find it here. I’ll address my success in achieving...
This is it. Really, this is it. This is really it. The soon-to-be-renamed European Tour is done. The PGA Tour is done. The LPGA is done....