Rick Vacek at The Turn

Golf tops other sports in one very important (and expensive) way: You’ve got to have the right equipment, and the right equipment is going to cost a lot of money. It starts with the golf ball. When I was growingREAD MORE

I played a course for the first time the other day and got reminded of a simple fact of life about being an amateur golfer: We just step up there and hit it – for better or for worse. Often,READ MORE

Something happened the other day that I’d never seen in my more than half-century of playing golf. And I’ve got to admit that it damaged my trust in my fellow golfers. In the space of seven holes, I twice hitREAD MORE

Finally, we are one. When the new World Handicap System, scheduled to go into effect in two years, was announced last week, it was just another example that golf’s ruling bodies across the world understand the importance of encouraging peopleREAD MORE

News item: Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald teams with Kevin Streelman to win the pro-am portion of the AT&T by seven shots: … After playing virtually every day since the end of the football season. … After entering theREAD MORE

I hung out with 191,000 close friends last week. We could have fit a lot more. It was the second round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, a tournament that regularly draws six-figure crowds to TPC Scottsdale. I went thereREAD MORE

When Web.com Tour member Rhein Gibson threw his putter cover at his caddie the other day, I immediately thought of Lefty. Not Phil Mickelson, the most famous Lefty on the PGA Tour. My mind went right back to the 16thREAD MORE

There has been a lot of fascination in recent years with short par-4s, but what about the short par-5? I think they can be equally interesting. I live right on a 470-yard par-5 where there’s a severe slope on theREAD MORE

So it turns out that part of the government’s new tax plan is the elimination of the 50 percent deduction for business expenses – such as golf. That’s bad stuff for the industry, but at times like this there’s onlyREAD MORE

“I had that bad dream again, Doc.” “The one about the first-tee jitters? I remember the last time that happened – you needed a lot of therapy.” “Yeah, I’m still paying for it.” “But your account is up to date.”READ MORE