Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Unforgiven

Back in October of last year, I wrote a post about Hunter Mahan “losing” the Ryder Cup because of an inopportune tee shot and subsequent chip shot. They allowed Graeme McDowell to famously win the hole and lock up the … Continue reading

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The Underdog

Rookie, Keegan Bradley won the HP Byron Nelson Classic in Irving, Texas, in a one-hole playoff with Ryan Palmer. He wasn’t supposed to. Palmer was the star playing at home in Dallas. Palmer had the better story going: “I’ve given … Continue reading

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What and Why to Watch Today

Today is unusual because the finish of the tournaments on all four of the major tours have tightly-packed leaderboards and compelling reasons to watch the finishes. The European Tour The BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth offers a classic, 3-way race. … Continue reading

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Celebrating Accomplishment

There was this report this morning from AP: Woman Earns Status on the Canadian Tour PARKSVILLE, British Columbia (AP) — Isabelle Beisiegel became the first female player to earn a playing card on a men’s professional golf tour, tying for … Continue reading

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Fragility

I was looking over the first round leaderboard for this week’s European Tour event, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club, in Surrey, England. This tournament is a big deal. At €4.5 million ($6.4 million), it has the biggest purse … Continue reading

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The Education of a PGA Tour Player

Even though you work the better part of your life for it, there’s a certain amount of surprise when you finally wind up on the PGA Tour. All of the junior tournaments, all of the high school tournaments, all of … Continue reading

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Byron Nelson Dartboard Picks

Our ongoing little experiment to test the depth of the fields in PGA Tour events continues: how would a randomly selected slate of ten players match up against the ten experts at pgatour.com who attempt to pick the winner each week? … Continue reading

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The Face of Golf

I came across a post on GOLF.com written by Damon Hack, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated, titled “Young Americans seem content to be faces in crowd, rather than face of golf.” In it, he worries that today’s young players just don’t … Continue reading

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The Tide Goes Both Ways

On Saturday, as David Toms watched his artfully accumulated 7-shot lead run out with the tide to a 1-shot deficit at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial C.C. in Fort Worth Texas, he had to be asking himself what he … Continue reading

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Kryptonite

It’s an old story. A story as old as golf itself. A guy shoots a really low score one day and the next day can’t seem to find the clubface. Superman is dying. Except David Toms’ story is a little … Continue reading

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