The PGA Tour’s Lack of Transparency
Let’s start with the words of PGA star Dustin Johnson: “I am taking a leave of absence from professional golf, effective immediately. I will use this time to seek professional help for personal challenges...
Author: Brad Pecot
Rory McIlroy’s Unbelievable Run
Rory wins third straight event at the PGA Championship; Maintains #1 Spot in World Rankings After a few years of bouncing between good and great, we find Rory McIlroy ranked as the number one...
Golf: Where It’s Been, Where It’s Going
To predict the future, it is always instructive to look at the past. The two great booms in golf in the last 100 years have been in the 1920s and 1990s. During each of...
Will ANYONE Dominate the Game in the Next 10 Years?
Well, it’s getting to be about that time. Golf is always on the lookout for its next big star. The talk started in the early 1980s when Jack Nicklaus began to decline after dominating...
Who Makes the Ryder Cup Team?
In the game of golf, your success can be summarized by a single number that determines whether or not you “made the cut.” One’s immediate future rides on a single number – except every...
McIlroy Shines as Tiger Crumbles
As Tiger Woods packed up his clubs to leave Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Sunday, you have to wonder what he was thinking about. The past or the future? If it was the past,...
Can Golf’s International Game Compete with the World Cup?
Well played, Germany. Except for a few uninspired minutes against Ghana and Algeria, the Germans were the best team on the field from beginning to end at the 2014 World Cup. Germany has also...
Early Favorites for the British Open
In the previous six Open Championships there have been six different winners. For that matter, most of the victors were not even among the favorites to capture the Claret Jug. However, this year things...
A History of the Open Championship
Almost 30 years before the first golf ball was ever struck in the United States, Englishmen were playing the Open Championship in 1860. It would have begun even earlier except for the presence of...
A Rusty Tiger Misses Cut
Golf isn’t like baseball where you can be on the injured list for a month then return to belt a homerun into the right field seats. You can hit as many practice balls as...