In March, when I was on holiday at Teeth of the Dog, I had the good fortune to run into Pete Dye, without question the most famous golf architect currently in the business (at least who...
Tag - Ryder Cup
Americans choke in losing Ryder Cup
My column on the U.S. Ryder Cup collapse appeared last night on Sympatico: Choke. It is a simple word, but in sports it comes...
Read MoreWe Don't Need Another Brookline…
Even though we still have several weeks left in the PGA golf season, the “big” season effectively ended last weekend with the...
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Sympatico: Love risks Ryder Cup on picks of Furyk, Snedeker
My latest Sympatico column looks at the decision by Davis Love to pick Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Stricker and Dustin...
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Major to Major
Maybe there’s something fundamentally wrong with me? (Of course, if you’ve ever read this column before, you already knew that). Maybe I should have a much more cold-blooded...
Sympatico: Seve's Wonderful Show
Like everyone else, I was saddened by the death of Seve Ballesteros over the weekend. My latest Sympatico column looks at some of the highlights of his career: Seve Ballesteros was one of...
What Rhymes With Thongchai?
I have to admit that I got caught with my pants down this week. No, not in a "True Confessions, Pee Wee Herman at the Cineplex," kind of way...but my literal pants were down around my Soft...
You Want Frys With That?
If fact, you could walk up to about 140 guys on Tour right now and ask them if they feel any excitement or drama and the answer would be an unqualified, breathlessly nervous "YES!!!" That's...
Ryder Cup: How Can the Americans Lose?
I spent much of last week writing about Wales, Terry Matthews and the Ryder Cup. You’ll find it all at Sympatico whenever my fine editor gets back from some company-mandated sojurn...
Random Notes for a Monday Morning
Jim Furyk wins the FedEx Cup. Now I find East Lake a dull place to watch golf, but Furyk managed to hang on — barely — to win. Did he deserve the title, with its system so...
The Ultimate Driving, Chipping, Putting Machine?
A few months from now, when all of the noted golf scribes and TV announcers are their sipping rum and eggnog and putting together the list of “big moments†of 2010, a few stories will...
And the U.S. Ryder Cup picks are…
Corey Pavin just announced his four captain’s picks — not surprisingly they include Tiger Woods, Stewart Cink, and Zach Johnson. Oh, and perhaps a little more surprising —...