Golf Equality For Women?
Blasting Out Of A Sand Trap!
TIME TO BUILD BESPOKE WOMEN’S GOLF COURSES I’m not young enough to have witnessed two of the greatest women swingers of a golf club, American, Glenna Collett Vare and…
Articles that feature the structure and future of golf courses.
Out Of Bounds… For Sure!
LIVING THE LINKS – Good or Bad Idea for Golf Lovers? I read a story recently, on-line, by Alex Myers, about a Pennsylvania man pulling a gun on an…
Herbert Bertram Strong … Who?
NAME RECOGNITION, AT LAST! I had just heard the story of an African-American woman, Katherine G. Johnson, an aeronautical engineer and mathematical genius, who finally got the recognition and high-echelon…
Dorian Water Hazard!
Storm At Sea
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…
Another 150 Bite The Dust?
Excavator at work converting a golf course
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…
For Those Who Like Grass
Golf ball in grass
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE GRASS These days, when so many states are celebrating medical marijuana, with even former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson even getting into the pot-game, growing weed in…
Open, But Not For Much Longer
Golf Course for sale
OPEN FOR BUSINESS, BUT NOT FOR MUCH LONGER Just as I watched the cigar-business price itself out of business, around 2006 (after a great run between say, 1995 and 2005),…
Rory to Roar at Portrush
Aerial View of Royal Portrush Golf Course
I Look for Rory to Roar at Portrush Prediction: Rory McIlroy will do an impression of the great horse Secretariat, lapping the field in the 2019 British Open by a…
The Worst Kind of Water Hazards
More than a Water Hazard ??
The Worst Kind of WATER HAZARDS and the most severe Penalties at Risk I use to worry about hitting the ball in a water hazard fronting a green, like the…
Thank You, PGA
CONGRATULATIONS, to the Professional Golfers’ Association of America for changing the dates of their annual major championship, from four days in hot August heat to four days of flowers in…
There’s No Place Like Home – St Andrews
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The Home of Golf: The “Old Course” at the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Fife, ScotlandENJOY the Golf ExperienceIn all the years I’ve played golf, nearly…
