There are many causes of slow play on a golf course, but one that has become completely unnecessary, because of technology, is figuring out just how far away from the target you are. Rangefinders, whether they are GPS or laser based, expedite what used to be an oft painstaking and lengthy practice.
Having somebody in your group with a rangefinder is particularly helpful to the pace of pl… Read More
NO. When golf was developing in Scotland in the late 1700s, golfers didn’t concern themselves with yardage calculations for approach shots to the green because they played the same courses over and over again, relying on past experience to gauge the distance of their shots. Fast forward 250 years. Today, players have a new toy in their bag – golf’s hottest product – a distance measur… Read More
NO. Do we all agree golf is an amazingly infuriating sport? Most of us have between 80 and 110 shots to get disgusted about during a round, and the nearest object to take out our frustrations being with the golf club. What did Bobby Jones mean when he said, “Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands?”
I love the game and over four decades have worn lavender-colored swea… Read More
I have witnessed, on many occasions, some Olympian hurling of golf clubs. I will admit that I have participated in this frowned upon, but largely universally shared aspect of the game. Somewhere is an instructional video on how to properly launch a driver into the stratosphere (probably Jimmy Ballard) with proper weight shift.
Anyone who claims never to have heaved a club in the course of playi… Read More
Sugar. Honey. Ice. Tea. Look close to find a message in those words. Is it true the low-intelligence golf mind of Tim Geary is at work spinning that Tiger Woods has forever lost his groove? That could be amusing or foolish: you make the call.
With three wins in 2012 and one win, so far, in 2013, how dare the zany, butterfingered Mr. Geary question the recent track record of the greatest golfer of… Read More
Our first debate of 2013 is centered around the epicenter of golf, the corporation known as Tiger Woods Inc. It's been a few years since El Tigre had the worst drive of his career, using the square grooves of his SUV's transmission to spin back into a real life hazard (known as a “Hurricane Elin”).
With the strains of Hank Williams crooning “Your Cheatin' Heart” echoing in his back swing… Read More
Thanks to being a golf writer I have had ample opportunity to play some of the finest courses in this country. In my 40 years of playing the game I’ve had some fine rounds, have had years when I carried a handicap as low as four and have actually won some tournaments. Those days of being a respectable player are gone. I can’t beat Gorman now and he can’t drive a cart straight, much le… Read More
No. Just when you thought about every conceivable reason why your game sucks, here’s another: golf course designers are making courses too tough. Complain all you want about courses being too long, but according to two respected retired players - Lee Trevino and Tony Jacklin - golf course architects over the past decade are ruining the game because the courses are too damn difficult. Both… Read More
Personally I find the word “choking” repugnant. It’s usually voiced by those who have never competed, but there is no arguing that athletes succumb to pressure from time to time and anyone who watched the Ryder Cup singles matches last month has to admit that the United States team folded under the European onslaught.
To be fair, the Euros, led by Ian Poulter, staged a fantastic come… Read More
NO. There was plenty of fuel to spark the pre-tournament fire in the 39th biennial edition of the Ryder Cup Matches, which will forever be known as the Miracle in Medinah. Ireland’s Graeme McDowell proclaimed Europe’s stunning come-from-behind 14 1/2 to 13 1/2 triumph “It’s Brookline, Euro-style.”
With 16 of the top-25 players in the world from the United States, you’d think tha… Read More
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