Embed from Getty Images BEN CRENSHAW MET TOM KITE in Austin, Texas, when they were kids in the early 1960s. A long friendship and Hall of Fame careers followed. Here’s a short excerpt from Melanie Hauser’s feature at PGATOUR.COM: Ben and Charlie Crenshaw were headed across the parking lot at old Austin Country Club off … Read more
By Kapalua Golf Maui, Hawaii (January 2, 2019) – Kapalua Golf’s Plantation Course, home of the PGA TOUR’s Sentry Tournament of Champions and one of the top 100 golf courses in the world, will close on February 11, 2019 to undergo a multi-million dollar enhancement project aimed at refining and revitalizing the 27-year-old golf course. … Read more
(The following piece originally published on April 13, 2015.) JORDAN SPIETH HAS HIS GREEN JACKET. And on this Monday following the Masters, the superlatives about the 21-year-old are piling up as fast as those record 28 birdies he made over four rounds at Augusta National Golf Club. In the mad rush by everyone to get … Read more
Jay Reynolds had a hot week in Austin. (Image: Lorenzo De Paolis) THIS FROM FACEBOOK FRIEND JAY REYNOLDS, who this past week played in the Austin Men’s City Golf Championship. “I did something pretty cool this week: broke Ben Crenshaw’s 40-year-old course record at [Lions Municipal Golf Course], with a 60 in the first round … Read more
JORDAN SPIETH HAS HIS GREEN JACKET. And on this Monday following the Masters, the superlatives about the 21-year-old are piling up as fast as those record 28 birdies he made over four rounds at Augusta National Golf Club. In the mad rush by everyone to get to know this new phenom and to explain his … Read more
ABOVE: Bill Fields talks about his new book on Morning Drive. I WANT TO ALERT YOU to a new book by Golf World senior editor Bill Fields. It’s called Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History: Heroes, Underdogs, Courses, and Championships. Ben Crenshaw wrote the foreword. Esteemed golf writers and authors such as Dan … Read more
BEGINNING NEXT WEEK, PINEHURST NO. 2, often called the home of American golf, will host the 2014 U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open in consecutive weeks. Here’s a preview of the famed layout. (Courtesy of scbluedevil-Flickr) Course Information Opened: 1907 Course Designer: Donald Ross Redesigns/Restorations: 1974 – Robert Trent Jones 2010 – Bill Coore and … Read more
PHIL MICKELSON IS IN MEMPHIS THIS WEEK trying to find some game before he heads to Pinehurst for the 114th U.S. Open. Mickelson has no top tens in 13 starts this season. In addition, he has been dogged in recent days by allegations of insider trading. Lefty has professed his innocence. In the above video, … Read more
AMATEUR TIANLANG GUAN, THE 14-YEAR-OLD sensation from China, made the cut at the Masters despite being assessed a one-stroke penalty for slow play on the 17th hole. Guan and his playing partners Masters champion Ben Crenshaw and Mateo Manassero had been warned and put on the clock earlier in the round. Guan had received a … Read more
Eddie Pearce A WORTHWHILE LONG READ: JASON SOBEL’S “Eddie Pearce: The fast life and hard times of ‘The Next Nicklaus.’” If you lived through the 1970s and were a golf fan, then you probably remember there were more next Jack Nicklauses than Tiger Woods Sunday red shirts. Eddie Pearce was one of them, maybe the … Read more