Boy, I guess it IS true. The more things change, the more they stay the same. And that goes for a golf lesson, too. I say that as I make my way through some of my favorite editions of “Weekend Wisdom,” an all-things-golf column I wrote as editor of Fairways + Greens magazine from 1998 Read more…
You’ve gotta hand it to longtime PGA Tour caddie Joe LaCava for standing by his man. When Tiger Woods decided to roll the dice on a third major back surgery in 2017 — the dreaded “fusion” move that has truncated many an athletic career — the former bag man for Freddie Couples (who’s had a Read more…
Now this is a Masters hangover we’d like to last a while. And it will. A lifetime, maybe. Perhaps it’s not as deep a “where were you” moment as, say, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing (for those of us old enough to remember it), or various other epochal instances of triumph and tragedy, but Read more…
The Masters is a high holiday for all golf fans, from casual to serious to obsessed. It attracts more attention than any other tournament, even though its field, on balance, is the weakest among the year’s four men’s professional majors. It’s unique. It’s fully American. And if you ask any Tour player which major they’d Read more…
Note: Like the rest of the world, Golf Tips is all about the Masters this week. Editor Vic Williams will chime in each day with his thoughts on the world’s greatest golf tournament, starting with some Masters memories of his own. As the week plays out and the competition heats up, follow us on Twitter Read more…
You gotta love match play. There’s simply nowhere to hide, especially when you’re well-documented hothead Sergio Garcia. A mistake in match play usually means the loss of a hole, no questions asked, unless you’re well-documented nice guy Matt Kuchar. The quarterfinal match between the two PGA Tour veterans last Saturday brought the vagaries of match Read more…
Like most Americans with a pulse, I’m dialed in to college basketball for the next few weeks. In fact, I’ve been immersed in it since last fall, when the Nevada men’s Wolf Pack was picked to win the Mountain West Conference in a walk and even got a few nods as a Final Four candidate. Read more…
All is right with the golf world, at least for this week. The Players Championship is back in March, where it belongs. And the 17th hole of the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass is as famously perplexing, as mini-mega menacing, as ever. Is there a par 3 in the world — outside, perhaps, No. 12 Read more…
When I learned of Dan Jenkins’ death at age 89 on March 7, I debated whether to offer a few choice words on one of the greatest golf writers, and sports writers in general, who ever put tobacco-stained fingers to a keyboard. Then I realized that “a few choice words” were Jenkins’ stock-in-trade for seven Read more…
The day I’m good enough at golf to ask a playing partner not to mark his ball on the green, then take aim at that ball with the expectation to actually hit it in classic backstopping form, is the day … Oh, who am I kidding? I’ll never be that good. Nor will 99.999 percent Read more…
