Best Player to Watch There’s nothing like the “oh no” moment when the television camera in the tower focuses on a slow and annoying golfer playing in a PGA Tour event. Watching one of these agonizingly methodical pros work through a seemingly endless pre-shot or putting routine drives me crazy. These guys really know...
10 Disturbing Trends in Golf
1. On Course Weddings–Golf courses everywhere are struggling and looking for more revenue streams. It looks like they found one. I’m seeing more weddings take place on clubhouse verandas and around the 18th green than ever before. Whatever happened to getting hitched at halftime of an NBA game or in a Vegas chapel? 2....
Is Tiger Woods Finally Back?
All aboard, we’re now loading up on the “Tiger is finally back” bandwagon. Everybody get your red shirts, black pants, TW caps and those goofy looking white athletic golf shoes because Tiger Woods is back. With the fire hydrant in Isleworth, sex clinic in Mississippi and Perkins Restaurant distant memories, Woods is finally back...
Turn Out the Lights Tigermania
Has the Tigermania train finally pulled into the station? While most of the media (including me) are still enamored with the power of Tiger, my guess is more and more fans are tiring of all things Tiger. Let’s face it, Woods still moves the needle for television viewers and if you put his name...
5 Reasons I Love to Watch Rickie Fowler Play Golf
1. His quick swing is the antithesis of the overt mechanical style favored by golf instruction gurus. 2. Fowler is more of a “feel” player and doesn’t resemble most of the robots on the PGA Tour. 3. Fowler plays the game with a unique intensity that most likely was nurtured back in his early...