I grew up near a 12-hole golf course in suburban Chicago called Maple Crest. It originally was 18 holes, but when land was needed for the new tollway, it was reduced to 12. I didn’t like it, simply because itREAD MORE
This month features a fairly typical PGA Tour schedule for May. The big event is The Players Championship, and there are some other good events at top-drawer courses – the Wells Fargo, the Byron Nelson, the Colonial event and TheREAD MORE
We like choices in golf. We want choices. We demand choices. How boring would it be if all golf courses were exactly the same? It’s our version of Apple or android, debit or credit, red wine or white. When youREAD MORE
Another scramble, I thought. Why does every charity tournament have to be a scramble? Well, I understand why. It’s because there invariably will be some players out there who probably shouldn’t be out there. If they all had to playREAD MORE
“Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.” There is debate over who first said words to that effect. Most people attribute it to Albert Einstein. Some say Mark Twain. Others say Benjamin Franklin.READ MORE
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