8:35 a.m. You dry-eyed cynics who find haven in Grey Goatee Nation -- we get you -- watched Tiger Woods tee off on 18 this morning at St Andrews. You watched him walk across the bridge o'er Swilcan Burn, perhaps for the last time as an active player. He's hurt, and we hurt for him, and you -- we … [Read more...]
The Open Championship: We know why (and who)
Herewith the reasons these players who could win The Open Championship will not win The Open Championship: Brooks Koepka: Too obvious Patrick Cantlay: Too who? Phil Mickelson: Too weak, too wan Patrick Reed: Too green Tiger Woods: Too soon Bryson DeChambeau: Too smart Dustin Johnson: Too … [Read more...]
Nope, next year
It's not the Ryder Cup, and there's no sense pretending it is. The Americans will go and have fun and win and all will be jolly, because they don't really care. It's not the Ryder Cup. This American Presidents Cup group is a dream team unlike any trotted out there, even any past team that had a … [Read more...]
Pacific Links postscript
VICTORIA, British Columbia -- The Mountain Course at Bear Mountain is gorgeous, and tournament officials take good care of the players, volunteers and media. The resort is a nice, self-contained village with lots of ways to foster its guests’ willingness to drop wads of cash. The crowds were good … [Read more...]
Frontrunner
It’s getting real in the FedEx Cup race, and all of a sudden Dustin Johnson has a leg up on the field. Back in April, we would have thought nothing but, with no “all of a sudden” qualifier for the guy who was playing exactly like his No. 1 ranking. That was before Johnson’s world wobbled out … [Read more...]
You read it here first
Please: No wagering whatsoever should result from the insider knowledge you will absorb from these U.S. Open predictions. It wouldn't be fair to all the other people, millions of them, for as many reasons, who don't read in this space. Dustin Johnson won't repeat. Martin Kaymer won't win … [Read more...]
The Masters Day One: Hey, Hoffman
The best player in the world was the most forlorn, the first betting parlor favorite to have his Masters scuttled before it started by a stockinged-feet stumble down a stairwell. Dustin Johnson was the story Thursday morning at Augusta, but his reluctant withdrawal opened the field for a … [Read more...]
Circled in green
If you're like me, a regular guy's guy with golf on his brain in this week of weeks in April, you've been looping "Live from the Masters" on the Golf Channel, and by now you've seen it all and seen it all again. You've seen the 20-year retrospective of Tiger Woods' 12-stroke victory in the … [Read more...]
Arnie’s week
The first Arnold Palmer Invitational since the man himself died last year will be a little light on glamor but heavy in youthful talent, which is about the way it is every week. The young talent goes deep on today's PGA Tour, and when you get down to No. 51 in the World Golf Rankings (for now) you … [Read more...]
D. Johnson, your Masters favorite
It begins to seem like Dustin Johnson should never lose a golf tournament. When he’s striking it and creating around the greens and making putts, there’s no one as good. He can beat himself, and nearly did over a shaky few holes near the end Sunday at Club de Golf Chapultepec. We know, … [Read more...]
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