Somewhere in the cosmos, the ghost of Seve Ballesteros could be heard to laugh out loud and clap appreciatively...as he choked down on a 3-iron and stung an impossible recovery shot out of...
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Armstrong v. Armstrong – One Small Step, One Giant Turd
We lost a truly great one this week folks. And we also revealed a bad one. When I was a boy, my hero was Neil Armstrong. In...
Read More M-I-C…K-E-Y…M-O-N-E-Y
I’m on the road right now, so this week’s column will be uncharacteristically short and to the point…or as close to coming...
Read More Golf…Serengeti Style
If Marlin Perkins were covering this particular spectacle for Wild Kingdom, the only shot we would have seen of the elusive tiger...
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And The Bleak Shall Inhibit Their Girth…
For me, one of the things that makes the TV coverage of the Tour Championship so vastly entertaining isn’t the enormous 10 million dollar payday on the line. Oh sure, the huge prize makes...
Welcome to the Real Silly Season!
Many people have labelled the events following the Fall Finish on the PGA Tour as golf’s “silly season.” You know the events; The Three Tour Challenge, The Skills Challenge, The PGA Grand...
The Calm Between the Storms
Hunter Mahan made a brief charge on the weekend…and we actually got to see him play. Luke Donald and Lee Westwood were crafting challenges for the lead…and were treated to...
Golf Coverage a la Jersey Shore
When Doctor Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant in 1967, oddly enough the anaesthesiologist in the OR wasn’t swarmed by reporters looking for...
Father's Day Favourites
US Opens are notorious for the evil way in which the courses are set up. Fairways are cut to the width of a snooker table, the rough is deep enough to lose your shoes in (not to mention...
Hopeless Causes…and Hopeful Picks
We’ve all heard the old chestnut, “if a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound?” Unfortunately, in golf these days, there is an all-too...
BEWARE: The Killer Hamsters are Coming!!!
As I was watching the third round play out at Colonial on Saturday, one thought kept tugging away at me from the dark recesses of my imagination. As David Toms stumbled his way around the...
Watson and Langer at Magna GC
[photopress:watson.jpg,full,centered] On Monday morning, I had the good fortune to spend some time up at Magna GC in Aurora, Ont. for Golf Town’s Invitational event benefiting...