A New Exciting? CBS Lineup?
Exciting Changes? In Golf Anouncing?
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…
Unfair Penalties?
Is there any justice on the golf course?
A DAY GOLF PRO, MARCEL SIEM, “PREFERS” TO FORG (as does LPGA senior pro, Lee Ann Walker) I just heard a tragic…
New Book – Enjoy Golf !
Simply Enjoying A Round Of Golf
FUTURISTIC FORECASTS – How long golf can be enjoyed by millions will depend on the environmental work forward by Millennial and Post-Millennial Golfers - At 70 years of age,…
Golf Balls… Revisited?
Getting ready to hit the ball
MAKE AMATEUR GOLF FUN AGAIN Amateur golfers in England, who could, once upon a time, purchase in every pro-shop what has been called the small British ball, enjoyed the…
Drunk Driver?
Checking Carts and Drivers?
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…
Talking Too Much?
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…
Fearsome Foresome
Your Choice Of A Fearsome Foresome
FAB FOUR One rainy day, when a member of Sara Bay Country Club, in Sarasota, Florida, between drinks and a long game of Liar’s Poker, played as you might…
PGA Dillydally Ruining Game
Waiting Too Long
SLOW PLAY SOLUTION One of the biggest problems facing golf courses today, namely because it continues to cause losses in revenue due to fewer green fees collected from golfers,…
Who Is The Best?
George Gankas Photo Credit BRINSON + BANKS
George Gankas: Golf’s # 1 Instructor? During my tenure at GOLF Magazine, as senior editor of instruction from 1984-1998, I was involved in selecting the 50 Best Teachers in America…
The Right Balance
Balancing stones
GET TRIM TO WIN, NOT ALL GET BULKED UP, LIKE “ROCKY” In 1984, when I became senior editor of instruction at GOLF Magazine, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, and Chi Chi…
Jack’s Back !
Jack's "the golden bear" Back
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…
John Daly II
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…
The Game Of GULF !
A small fire burning in a refinery behind some industrial buildings.
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…
Speeding Up Play!
Too many choices leeds to slow play
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…
Difficult To Miss The Cut!
Missing the Cut
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 –…
Cannabidiol ?
Hand holding marijuana leaf ( Cannabis sativa indica )
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…
Big Tournaments Dominate
Not Enough Time Between Majors
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…
Player of the Year ?
Selection Of The Player Of The Year
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…
Butt… Wait For More?
But,But,But
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…
Beer & Golf?
Beer and Golf
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…
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…
Weather… or Not To Play?
Golf in bad weather. Is It Worth It
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…
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…
Michelle Liu makes her debut
Photo Of Michelle Lui From CBC.CA
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…
Blessed Be The Game Of Golf!
Coming Soon? Church Of Golf?
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…
An Improved Tiger!
Editorial credit: Mitch Gunn / Shutterstock.com
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…
Will Tiger Seek Brunza Help?
Editorial credit: Mitch Gunn / Shutterstock.com
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…
Good Advice From POTUS
President RUSHMORE?
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!
Senior Man Heading For The City from The Golf Course
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…
