Category: General
Jan
10
To begin this week's homage to the ni~na mimada hawaiana, the mon of ron did a little web digging and came up with a few sites worth your perusal. To begin, we visit MissMichelleWie.Com, an eponymous entry into the world of teen fandom. This is a darne… more »
Jan
08
"The thing she has over all the other girls is great shotmaking," Leadbetter said. "She can draw it, fade it, and around the green she has a tremendous variety of shots. Those girls are one dimensional. Obviously, that's why Annika enjoys playing with Ti… more »
Jan
08
It's Sunday morning, Buffalo standard time, and I count exactly one score out of eighty-four posted in the 60s. Is this June and Pinehurst? I mean, Olin Browne DID shoot the 69, something I think I sorta remember him doing in 2005 ... time warp?
S… more »
Jan
01
I'm looking at Golf Hemisphere, a nicely-done, weekly digest from the folks at Golf Ingest. Specifically I see an ad on the back cover for the new hybrid club from Ping, the G5. It looks tasty, like a stew onion or something of that ilk. And it gets m… more »
Dec
30
Something has been bothering me about the Wie-Creamer-Pressel blog threads of the last two years, and I am proud to announce that I have finally outsmarted myself and figured out what it is: the bottom line.
Roll tape back fourteen years to when Ti… more »
Dec
30
I've just finished Somewhere in Ireland a Village is Missing an Idiot, by the renowned slav, David Feherty. He puts forth his belief that the well-aimed and well-deserved curse should not be shrunk away from, but rather, embraced. His reflections gave… more »
Dec
28
I am irked, perturbed, riled up, down and sideways. The Euros have grabbed the edge again. The European Union launched the Galileo satellite today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Galileo, for the untutored, will surpass our Global Position… more »
Dec
25
How often have we heard them begin a sentence just that way? Maybe you and I are part of that "they." If it's not our home course, then it's another local track that everyone rates the best this or the best that. And if it were simply the course that… more »
Dec
23
1-2. Golf In The Kingdom, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons
Michael Murphy, Michael Murphy
Mike Murphy’s two volumes on Shivas Irons are modern classics. The second volume was his response to the multitudes who, like Area 51 fanatics, reported Shivas… more »
Dec
19
Anyone For Tee is my third-favorite website, after TravelGolf.com and BuffaloGolfer, of course. While trolling their veddy English pages, I stumbled against a wall of golfing quotations that outduels any other compilation of appropriately-witty citation… more »
Dec
19
The first invitations have gone out (thank you, SI.Com!) Here are my early picks on, oh heck, a bunch of interesting elements:
Five New Guys Who Should Not Unpack:
Clay Ogden, Edoardo Molinari, Kevin Marsh, Dillon Dougherty, and Brian McElhinney (A… more »
Dec
19
This confession is so sacrilegious, it is akin to admitting five years ago that you despised the Atkins Diet. However, I must cleanse my soul, rehab my kharma, and set thing right with all two of my readers: I despise hybrids.
I cannot hit the littl… more »
Dec
16
"Teach-the-Teacher Clinics on the Show Floor PGA Director of Instruction Rick Martino and renowned golf instructor Butch Harmon will present new "teach-the-teacher" clinics. The seminars are designed to provide teaching professionals with the tools they… more »
Dec
13
I love Jennifer Mario, and would love to have her pick out holiday gifts for me. I feel the need to suplement her list, though, with one of my own. I call it, warmly, holiday shopping for golfers on the edge. Traditionalist that I am, I will ennumerat… more »
Dec
12
I was finishing an article by my favorite living golf writer, Jan Denkins, in the storied, some might call hoary, publication on the game we all love, Golf Indigestion. Jan had taken to task my favorite target, Mister I'm Above The LPGA Tour Officials (… more »
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