A Fairway View, but the Window Is Often Broken
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With new gear that enables average golfers to hit a ball 250 yards, the intersection of errant golf shots and private property is becoming an increasingly prominent problem.
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It is perhaps a little hard to describe the leader of a tournament as an irrelevance, but in the greater scheme of things this week that is what Retief Goosen is, here at the BMW International Open.
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Some players try to get too technical with their swings and seem to lose some of their feel and imagination. Charles Howell has not known any other way but critiquing his swing on tape.
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It is not every day that the best golfer on the planet hooks his opening tee-shot into a lake, misses two tiddlers and sends another putt off the edge of the green.
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- Along the way, each man has had to assess his lot in the world of golf. One had to examine his nerves, the other his spirit.
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KAPALUA, Hawaii -- So far as golf's best one-two punch goes, yesterday's final round of the Mercedes Championships was disappointing.
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Played on windswept courses that are linked to the sea, the British Open is often an exercise in hitting low, running shots, while other PGA Tour events call for high shots that land softly.
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Michelle Wie's attempts to become the first woman to make the cut on the PGA Tour in 61 years increasingly are taking on the look of folly, rather than soon-to-happen reality.
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If the nuances of golf are often lost on those who do not play it, there are times when even its existence doesnât make much sense.
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OAKMONT, Pa. -- It's as much a part of the US Open as high rough, fast greens, blue blazers, and short tempers.
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He is fine. James Driscoll wants people to know that up front. The play hasn't been as sharp as he'd like, certainly not up to his standards, and he knows there's a local following that is curious, but a lot of it has to do with this game called golf.
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Phil Mickelson is not ready to be anointed on the Monterey Peninsula, but he's getting close.
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Of all the distinctive wrinkles of Oakmont, the home of this weekâs United States Open, the clubâs Church Pews have come to represent the courseâs toughness, charm and eclectic soul.
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The wrist brace came off. The wrist brace went back on. Phil Mickelson fidgeted with it on a rare visit to the fairway, examined it while waiting for yet another shot from the rough. Around the green, it was on to begin the round and then off later when things started getting good.
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Two things felt out of place to Phil Mickelson at the Accenture Match Play Championship.
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- There is a picture window stretching eight years that looks as it did when last the British Open stopped here along the North Sea. A gray, somber sky. Spits of rain. A Scottish summer chill. An 18th hole that packs a ferocious punch. All aspects were in place for yesterday's opening round of the 136th edition, just ...
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When the sun plays hide and seek behind hovering clouds and a moderate wind buffers the insufferable heat, a golf course is a pleasant place to be.