Talk about flawed intelligence. I?m referring to George Bush?s I.Q., not the baloney he and his cronies cooked up to wage war on Iraq. Bush says he gave up golf to show solidarity with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even ...

On consecutive days, two of the world?s top female athletes have decided to call it quits. First, Annika Sorenstam announced that 2008 would be her final year, and today world No. 1 women?s tennis player Justine Henin announced her tennis ...

Annika Sorenstam said Tuesday she is retiring from professional golf at the end of this season. The 37-year-old Swede, who said she?d been thinking about retiring ?for a while,? has won 72 LPGA Tour titles in her career. The Dubai ...

Big news in the golf world: Annika Sorenstam announced this afternoon that she?s planning to ?step away from competitive golf? after this season. Wow and wow. Sorenstam has achieved pretty much every honor known to pro golf. The Hall of Famer ...

Well, I?ll be. The Associated press is reporting that Annika Sorenstam is calling it quits at the end of this golf year to pursue business interests and, more importantly to start her own family. Go figure. Just as she appears ...

PADSTOW, CORWALL - Unless you are well versed in the countless links gems of the British Isles, or are an avid reader of GolfEurope.com, where architect Tom Doak listed St. Enodoc among his top five ?undiscovered? links, you?ve probably never ...

Fisherman?s Wharf in San Francisco is one of the worst tourist monstrosities of all time. The world famous Fisherman?s Wharf manages to pull off the difficult task of combing garish rip-off tourist trinkets and outrageous prices at really bad supposedly ...

Click here to listen. Annika Sorenstam has officially begun to chip away at Lorena Ochoa?s top Rolex Ranking. A win at the season-opening SBS Open led a ?Tiger-esque? charge that has remained strong through her latest victory at the Michelob Ultra ...

Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Never been to the home of golf? In this week?s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to Alasdair Busby, director of St. Andrews Golf Tours, about planning a golf trip to Scotland and Ireland. ?We?re ...

Paul Goydos is 42 years old, and a portly 5?9?, 190 lbs. He hits sort of a cut shot (i.e, a controlled slice), not terribly far, but extremely reliable. He putts with one of those huge, ugly mallet putters ? ...

It seems that the folks at Sawgrass are not averse to low scores, unlike their neighbors to the (barely) north. Forget Augusta National; they had their 70 years as a major?there?s more drama on the final 3 at TPC, ...

Do you want to have your best summer of Golf ever? Then repeat after me ? say it out loud so it means more than just it saying to yourself: ?Going ahead from this day forward ? I solemnly swear to ...

24 of the first 28 winners of the Players Championhip were also Major winners. From Jack Nicklaus in 1974, through Tiger Woods in 2001. These include a passel of current or future Hall-of-Famers named Floyd, Trevino, Norman, Price, Couples, Sutton ...

The Cheap Bastard doesn?t spend much time up north. Especially not after that seal clubbing incident. But sometimes even yours truly needs to get out of his comfort zone - and let me tell you it a true Zone of ...

Listen to podcast Golf Gear News #44. Interview with the Guru: Clubmaxxgolfbags.com. The Newstand: Odds of Woods Winning the US Open, and Get a Tax Deduction for Playing Golf. Golf of the Weird: Black Ops Golf Psychology. Our new Golf Gear News ...

It may seem like a fluke that Trevor Immelman won the Master?s, but it just didn?t happen by accident ? I was talking with some friends of mine about the Master?s and one of them said to me ?who is this ...

As Bill Wolfrum blogged at WorldGolf.com, a team of scientists studied Tiger Woods? sweat when creating the formula for the new ?Gatorade Tiger ? a new line of Gatorade Thirst Quencher formulated for Tiger Woods in great-tasting flavors he selected.? With ...

Some research published recently showed that when Tiger Woods is in a competition other players perform worse than when he is not. The suggestion is that his mere presence sows the seeds of failure in their minds. Someone who might ...

So much happening on the golf blogosphere radar these days it?s hard to keep up with! Dave Berner has a new podcast that all should take a listen to, and a couple of my favorite ladies in the golf world ...

We all hear about golfers who never practice but we don?t hear much about the player who practices more than they play. A question I often get from my students is ?why do I hit it great on the ...

A golf book that is similar to a round of golf at least concerning its interest-provoking quality. That?s the conclusion I reached after reading and then rereading several sections of Andy Brumer?s most recent volume, The Poetics of Golf. ...

The golf business measured by numbers of players, rounds played, and equipment sold could be generously described as flat. Why the slowdown in the game?s growth and where is it headed? First of all, the good news? ?Baby Boomers? and ...

Click here to listen. Though in the backyard of the more world-renowned Scotland, Ireland and southwest England, Wales is ripe with its own collection of historic links courses, such as Royal Porthcawl, Ashburnham and Royal St. Davids. Since ...

I think jeans and jean shorts are terrible for the golf course. Let me add to that cargo shorts. I saw some guys playing recently at an upscale course and they were all wearing rumpled cargo shorts that hung well ...

The forecast in Charleston today called for winds that exceeded even my golf tolerance, leaving me with the perfect opportunity to sit around and watch golf. Turning on a PGA event and seeing flag sticks that are damn near horizontal ...

Once again the good ship United States slammed into a gigantic iceberg and is now resting at the bottom of the English Channel along with Peter Kessler. The guy found the perfect club but lost the perfect job to Vince ...