Back a bit, I tossed some names as certain Walker Cup selection. The five names were Patrick Cantlay, Peter Uihlein, Nathan Smith, David Chung and Russell Henley. Those five still stand as autos in my view and I'm ready to add three more names to the li… more »

Gil Hanse and Stephen Kay had enough time to establish themselves as legitimate golf course architects before the collapse of the Roman, errr, American economy. They each developed a body of work that keeps some new and mostly rennovative work coming th… more »

Give a man a little power and watch out! Remember Sarah Brown and the retired elementary school principal incident last year on the Futures Tour? It happened again, this week, at the USGA Junior Amateur. Here's the story as reported by the Kitsap Sun in… more »

No one knew that speculation was such a fast cat. He was loosed today around water coolers everywhere, yet is so slippery that no one could get a hold on him to reign him in. The motivation for this dash for recognition? Tiger Woods' announcement that S… more »

Back in aught-two, by crackey, I made my first trip to Bethpage Black for the U.S. Open, the first "Peoples' Open" hosted at the venerable municipal course in Farmingdale, N.Y. Weather was shaky, golf was marvelous, Tiger won, I was hooked on Bethpage.… more »

I recently read a well-written piece on Erik Compton's triumph on the Nationwide Tour in Leon, Mexico. Leon is centrally located just south of the country's capital, in the same mountain chain that meets our Rocky Mountains. Compton, you may know, is a… more »