Team. Complete. With his Captain’s Picks locked, @SteveStricker selects: 🇺🇸 @DanielBerger59 🇺🇸 @Harris_English 🇺🇸 @tonyfinaugolf 🇺🇸 @XSchauffele 🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler 🇺🇸 @JordanSpieth pic.twitter.com/wFGR3bw8IH — Ryder Cup USA (@RyderCupUSA) September 8, 2021 THE 2021 RYDER CUP IS AROUND THE CORNER. The matches will be played September 24 through 26 at Whistling Straits, a Pete and Alice … Read more
When in China. 🇨🇳 https://t.co/ab5QMgwRPL — The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) April 26, 2016 THE MOST INTERESTING GOLFER in the world hit yesterday’s most interesting golf shot in the world. Maybe the unusual scene gave Pete Dye some diabolical new design ideas.
(From the archives. This originally published on August 12, 2010, the last time the PGA Championship was played at Whistling Straits.) Whistling Straits (Dan Perry) WHISTLING STRAITS, SITE OF THE PGA Championship, has sand fairways (see photo). This player’s ball has split the middle, and he looks to have a decent lie from which to … Read more
AS AN INDIANA NATIVE AND LARRY BIRD fan, I can get behind this news. Larry Bird will host the 2015 Senior PGA Championship. (OK, actually his hometown of French Lick.) From the PGA of America: French Lick Resort’s Pete Dye Course, which opened in 2009, will be the site of the most historic and prestigious … Read more
Available at Lulu.com. FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE EXTREME GOOD FORTUNE that converts a pastime into a career. Even fewer are those to whom such a scenario brings success and rewards beyond imaginings. Barry Ward is one of the latter, and after a lifetime in golf writing he is still counting his blessings. He calls it … Read more
Tiger Woods practicing at The Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, SC. (Matt Drobnik) WOULD YOU LIKE TO CATCH A HUGE BREAK on the $343 non-guest rate at The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, where Tiger Woods is struggling in third-round play of the PGA Championship (currently in a weather delay)? There’s a way. You just … Read more
The par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, site of The Players Championship. (Perfectance) (From the ARMCHAIR GOLF archives.) “The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.” −Pete Dye DO YOU EVER WATCH A GOLF TELECAST and secretly wish you could try your luck on a certain hole? The par-3 … Read more
SUNDAY’S DUEL AT THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP was going to turn out well. And it wasn’t. Let me explain. I like David Toms. I’m a sucker for the quasi old guy who has been down and now has the chance to win a big one like The Players Championship. NBC had me all set up with … Read more
I’M AMONG THOSE WHO HOPE The Heritage can attract a title sponsor so it can stay on the PGA Tour schedule for its 44th year and beyond. I admit to being nostalgic. I’ve watched the tournament for a long time and know many of the holes and landmarks at Harbour Town Golf Links, even though … Read more
Editor’s note: This tale originates with Monte Burke at Forbes.com. Visor tip to John Strege at Local Knowledge. HERB KOHLER LOVED HIS black-face sheep that wandered Whistling Straits, the Wisconsin golf course that hosted the 2010 PGA Championship won by Martin Kaymer in a sudden-death playoff against Bubba Watson. (And, of course, the home of … Read more