Articles that feature the structure and future of golf courses.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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),…
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 and the most severe Penalties at Risk I use to worry about hitting the ball in a water hazard fronting a green, like the…
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…
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…