Instead, Canada’s top golfer (who destroyed Alvaro Quiros today 8-and-6 at the Accenture Match Play) will be heading to the Olympics:
Mike Weir hasn’t missed the annual PGA Tour stop in Scottsdale, Ariz., (now called the Waste Management Phoenix Open) since 1999, but the erstwhile hockey player is making an exception this year — and for [...]
I couldn’t have been the only one watching Pebble Beach on the weekend hoping that David Duval would take the event. I’ve always liked Duval, though it is hard to imagine he only has 13 wins, including a British Open. That doesn’t put him that far beyond the likes of Mike Weir, though Duval does [...]
Course Review: Monterey Peninsula (Shore Course)
Architect: Mike Strantz
The story of Monterey Peninsula’s Shore Course is likely only known to those that are interested in golf design, and the even smaller group that were intrigued by the unfortunately short career of maverick golf designer Mike Strantz. After all, it was the Shore Course which would be [...]
Given the $4.7-million that a Quebec-based sports marketing agency managed to draw out of the Federal and Provincial governments for a Champions Tour event in Montreal, I thought it was worthwhile to ask Royal Canadian Golf Association (Golf Canada?) executive director Scott Simmons whether or not the events the organization ran benefited from tax dollars. Turns [...]
I found former PGA Tour winner Richard Zokol’s comments on the groove battle to be fascinating. He posted it in the comments section, but I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to see it. Zokol writes:
It was a sad day and turning point for golf in 1993 when the USGA, R&A with the [...]
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