Anthony Kim and Camilo Villegas are now paid-up members of the European Tour. Two of the hottest young golfers on the planet, who might be the participants in the Next Great Rivalry as soon as the 2009 Presidents’ Cup, are, in golf fans’ minds, taking a step down.
You’ll pardon me while I go off to some e-corner right now and start giggling like a six-year-old girl. It’s the appropriate response after seeing Saturday’s result.
Over at SI.com, Stewart Mandel says he feels totally unqualified to interpret a scoreboard in Ann Arbor that stated, as night fell in more ways than one on [...]
Okay, quick question: what’s the richest tournament on the PGA Tour? The US Open, right? Gotta be one of the majors, surely? Nope. It’s the Players’ Championship. Well, it’s traditionally been that way. The WGC events have pushed their purses up this year to match the Players’ $8M [...]
In Memoriam: Eddie Robinson. Not only a great coach, but a great leader of men and an inspiration to athletes of all colors. Normally I wouldn’t throw something like that in here, but a column for Tailgate Crashers seems to be an appropriate place for it.
When the calendar turns to April, golfers’ [...]
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You just have to shake your head sometimes. Over the last decade, we’ve seen Tigger do everything, right? Well, he did something Sunday that no one will ever match, until Tim Finchem or his successors get another wild hair up their [...]
A Disorderly Compendium Of Golf: Wisdom, Folly, Rules, Truths, Trivia, And More
Lorne Rubenstein and Jeff Neuman
Workman Publishing
Published October 2006
Trade Paperback - $13.95
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So, you think that since it’s after Christmas, your gift-giving season is over, right? Wrong. Not if you have a golfer in the house. Sure, you may have given [...]
And in those days, Giants strode the Earth…
We’d see them occasionally on TV, cherubic old men with perpetual smiles watching the game being played, knowing that those smiles were hiding the fact that there was nothing more they wanted than to be out there with a club in their hand and a ball on the [...]