He works in gubmint in his FDJ*, like the proprietor. When Steve Valandra asks, "Why is 'stakeholder' even discussed in golf?", I know he's been listening to the Golf Channel talking heads. And I know what he means, even if I've never been quite sure what "stakeholder" means. Valandra says, "That … [Read more...]
News
News of note and notes on the news.
Major ramifications
Leave it to the women, demonstrably more clever in all things than men in general, to put on the first major of the professional goffin' season. Officially, it's the ANA Inspiration in Rancho Mirage, but you can call it the Dinah. Eun-Hi Jee stamped herself a contender with a victory last … [Read more...]
The roars were Rory’s
The 42-year-old wearing red on Sunday wouldn't have beaten Rory McIlroy even if he hadn't jerked his tee shot OB on 16 and slopped it around 17. He even said so: He knew he needed to play the last three holes in three-under to have a chance, and it wouldn't have been … [Read more...]
The Rules edition
There oughta be a rule, like 1(a), that says Tiger Woods must make a couple putts IF it would win him a golf tournament. Its application, of course, is highly contingent on Woods being in position to win a golf tournament, which had been such a while it could be the USGA and R&A -- in their … [Read more...]
World No. 388
Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Tiger Woods ... all within the top 388 in the World Golf Rankings, which makes the Valspar Championship just about the best field of a non-major this season. Oh, to be No. 388 in the world. The love, the money, the invitation to the … [Read more...]
Monday murmuring
Justin Thomas had another "fuck, yeah" moment on 18 Sunday in Mexico City, holing out for eagle from 121 yards to take a sudden two-stroke lead to the clubhouse. Phil Mickelson made a routine birdie on 15 and a clutch birdie putt on 16 to force a playoff and set up an "oh, fuck" moment for Thomas -- … [Read more...]
And the winner is …
With the biggest and bling-iest show of the movie awards season coming up Sunday, it seems only right and fitting (like a 48 extra-long green jacket on Justin Thomas) to offer a look at some of the golf course industry's annual awards, The Grainys, from the January issue of the trade mag … [Read more...]
Pain control
Jon Rahm is not the story at the Farmers Insurance Open this week, and won't be any sooner than Saturday, even though he's defending champion, even if he's leading the tournament, even if he did supplant Jordan Spieth at No. 2 in the World Goffin' Rankings with a playoff victory last weekend … [Read more...]
Back on the horse
Tom Hoge missed putts on the 16th, 17th and 18th holes Sunday in Honolulu, and all they did was lose him a golf tournament. Hoge, the 54-hole leader at the Sony Open, finished a shot out of a playoff -- close, sliver close, to his first PGA Tour victory. Hoge had a one-stroke lead heading to … [Read more...]
Prep work
So I wonder, then, if I'm not old, why all I talk about are "procedures," friends who are sick, and incarcerating or otherwise caring for our parents prior to burying them. It's enough to make a guy hide his head ... preferably, if it came to that, in a greenside bunker of fine white sand in … [Read more...]
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