OIL MONEY During my junior golf days, in particular, two of my favorite television shows were Big Three Golf and All-Star Golf. That said, hands down, my favorite, for several…
Time to Change the “14 clubs” Rule From what I have witnessed, ninety-five percent of all low-handicap amateur golfers take the game too seriously, with each believing he plays golf…
CUT IT OUT! About thirty-five years ago, in 1984, the year I was promoted to senior instruction editor of GOLF Magazine, one of the PGA Tour’s most prominent players –…
Bubba’s Gone to Pot Bubba Watson, two-time major champion, who likes the limelight, usually grabbing the attention of tournament galleries by hitting 325 yard drives, is now handling the anxiety…
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT It’s too late for the retired Jack Nicklaus, arguably the greatest golfer that ever lived with more major championship wins than any other golfer, eighteen in…
A Touch of Asia for American teenage girls destined for the LPGA Tour A few years ago, before suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and rear-ended by a reckless driver and injuring…
PGA TOUR PROS ROAR FOR RORY AND REJECT GOLF’S YOUNG LION – BROOKS KOEPKA Rory Mcllroy was voted by his peers on the PGA Tour as the 20I8-2019 PGA Player…
Friends, Roman, Countrymen, Lend Brooks Koepka Clothes (and some Fig-Leafs) As a former senior editor of GOLF Magazine, let me tell you that we once had women LPGA players dress…
Get Your Kid Out of Trouble BeFore! he Gets In It I’m sure to have beer-drinking critics for writing this blog, but I guarantee they will not be the parents…
BAD NEWS FOR MEMORIES OF GOLF IN THE BAHAMAS As a young golfer, Shell’s Wonderful of Golf, ran from 1963-1970, and each week featured two golfers competing against one another…
HURRICANE GOLF Weather, particularly high winds and wet greens, sometimes the aftermath of a hurricane, can pose a problem to those golfers who lack the experience of putting in such…
CALL FOR QUALIFIED TEACHERS One chief factor caused top golf teacher, Jim Hardy, who I collaborated with on the bestselling instruction book, The Plane Truth for Golfers, to say: “If…
TIGER IS READY FOR HIS FINAL ACT Having followed the junior, amateur, and pro careers of Tiger Woods, written The Tiger Woods Way, The Short Game Magic of Tiger Woods,…
The Call for Free The Rules of Golf Books As I say in a special section of my new book, Enjoy Golf!, to be released in 2020, part of acting…
Drive for Dough or Putt for Dough? I’ve been around this great game of golf for sixty years, and have played well enough to win a caddy championship, junior championship,…
SLOW PLAY REMEDIES When the United States Golf Association (USGA) changed the Rules of Golf, so that now, according to rule 13.2a (2), the flagstick can be left in the…
COURSE CLOSED I’ve been around the game of golf for sixty years, and I’ve got to say, I hope there’s some truth in the familiar quotation: “Sometimes good comes…
MICHELLE LIU IS A WINNER, ALREADY POSSESSING THE “IT-QUALITY” While there is worry about where the excitement will come from on the PGA Tour, once Tiger Woods retires, due to…
GOD’S GAME I was intrigued by an article I read in the Wall Street Journal last year, about the ever increasing popularity of offbeat offshoots of the game of golf…
GOODBYE, FOR NOW, TIGER Just seeing a tired Tiger departing from the BMW Championship, after failing to finish in the top-thirty FedEx playoffs that meant he would not be able…
TIGER’S GOT HIS A-GAME SWING BACK Having written about Tiger’s power-swing technique, highlighted by a right-to-left controlled draw shot off the tee, in the book, The Tiger Woods Way, and…
TIGER TO RETURN TO THE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST’S COUCH? One Tiger Woods’ story that’s been kept almost secretive is one about him visiting Navy clinical psychologist, Dr. Jay Brunza, to be…
PATRICK REED EARNS 2000 FedEx POINTS, BUT IT’S NOT FAIR TO TIGER WOODS AND THE YEAR’S OTHER MAJOR CHAMPIONS Just think, at the 2019 British Open, Patrick Reed, uncharacteristically, hit…
GAMETIME - > Part I These days, more and more, we see our American flag put down or torn down by radicals in our own country, showing the same disrespect…
THANKS DONALD J. TRUMP Finally, President Trump gets good Press, for convincing the former assistant professional of his Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, in New Jersey to replace the grip…
Beep Beep! Beep Beep! In 1981, when I was working in London, England, as assistant editor for Golf Illustrated, the world’s oldest magazine, a weekly publication, something very telling about…
COOL GOLF Just to show you how the creative mind works, I was thinking back of past presidents, and the image of John F. Kennedy employing that fluid wrist-controlled swing…
THE SENTENCING OF SERGIO GARCIA I’ve witnessed 1960s rock star vocalist and guitar virtuoso, Jimmy Hendrix, wildly strum and sing Manic Depression on stage at the Fillmore East, in New…
To become a true golfer it’s important that you learn the language veteran golfers converse in on the golf course, so this is the first of a four-part series on…
