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Posts from category: Jack Nicklaus

Steve Williams on Woods: “When You’re Friends with Somebody… That’s When You Don’t Walk Away.”

Well worth watching this video interview with Steve Williams, Tiger Woods’ bag carrier, with New Zealand’s version of 60 Minutes. Is it just me or is he even moreĀ unlikable in this interview than ever?
In other news, Woods is back at Isleworth hitting balls. I’d be very surprised if he doesn’t show up at Bay Hill [...]


Nicklaus on Tiger: “None of My Business”

Surprising it has taken this long, but Jack Nicklaus has sort of commented on the Tiger Woods fiasco. How many women are now supposed to have slept with Tiger? Sixteen including a couple of porn stars? When did this guy have time to practice? Hank Haney told me Tiger was usually at the gym by [...]


GD on Weir: $5M in off-course earnings

My copy of Golf Digest showed up on Dec. 31 and included the list of the game’s best paid players. I’m sure you can’t guess who is No.1, but there at #18Ā is Mike Weir, with $5 million in off-course earnings. That’s 10 spots above his last ranking…
And for the record, Stephen Ames, who made [...]


Wyndansea in Trouble?

Eighteen months ago I took a couple of flights to Vancouver Island to meet with Jack Nicklaus and discuss
the $600-million Wyndansea project, a high-end gof development on the west side of the island near Ucluelet. I wrote a Q&A with Jack stemming from my interview there that was published in Score Golf (some quotes can [...]


Jack on Doak

The most recent Score magazine has a Q&A with Jack NicklausĀ (which I can’t locate online) that was conducted over two interview sessions earlier this year. Rather than talk to Jack about his Masters wins, or the role of fatherhood in Tiger Woods’ golf career, we spoke about golf design, and his evolution from [...]