MONTY GOES MARCHING ON I’m thrilled for Colin Montgomerie, maybe the best player never to win a Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, or PGA, golf four major championships. Colin…
LOVE IT OR Leave It! I choose to LEAVE IT! Why? The last guy I would have thought would take the place of the exiting golf analysts of CBS, the…
RULES of GOLF NIGHTMARE - The Rules of Golf, laid down in an official book published by the United States Golf Association, are supposedly there to help the golfer.…
Great and Greatest Hole-in-One Moments At age 15, on the Par-3 ninth hole of the Tall Tree Country Club course in Rocky Point, Long Island, I hit a six-iron…
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…
CALL FOR ON-COURSE PROOF/BREATHALYZER CHECK In the grocery check-out aisle the other day, a man in front of me who I guessed was around 70 years old, was paying…
GET REAL RORY! Rory Mcllroy is, without question, the most talented Super-Golfer today, yet I question what’s going on in that area between the ears, where the great Bobby…
AUTO-PILOT PUTTING One of the biggest influences on my writing golf-orientated humorous short stories, was the television show I watched off-and-on, during the five decades it ran, staring in…
The Bear has come out of Hibernation “Oops, I did it again!” – the lyrics of Britney Spears sure suited the golf game of Jack Nicklaus, once again, as they…
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Working with John Daly on the book – Grip It & Rip It! – was truly an experience I have not forgotten, for three reasons: I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…