It is always a real pleasure to get a chance to meet and speak with the best in the business — regardless of whether we’re talking high-finance, technology, entrepreneurism or, in this case, golf. With that in mind, I was very pleased to meet Bill Coore, half of the Coore/Ben Crenshaw design team, while on [...]
While I’m prepping for a trip to LA to visit TaylorMade’s facilities this week and hang out at the Northern Trust Open on Tuesday, I’ve posted some more travel and architecture articles over on our travel site.
Go here to read my take on Florida’s East Coast and Ocean Hammock, and here to read an article [...]
Mark Parsinen, the creator of Kingsbarns, the great links near St. Andrews, is poised to do it again, this time near Inverness. The site is to be called Castle Stuart and sounds like a pretty cool project. No word on when they’ll actually break ground on this or when it will be open, but [...]
With a baby in the house, I realize there is little chance I’ll play anything further in Golf magazine’s top 100 in the world. But it has been a good year nonetheless…. There had been talk of getting to Pinehurst No. 2 this year, though it didn’t happen. Next year I am very keen [...]
Voices of Golf: Desire for old-style links sparks revolution — written sfor PGATour.com
By Robert Thompson
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the golf course business.
But this one isn’t being led by Tiger Woods and doesn’t have anything to do with TaylorMade, Callaway or Titleist. Jack Nicklaus is nowhere to be found in this battle against progress.
The [...]
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