Dave Pelz's Austin-area home features a dynamic short-game practice facility and replicas of some famous greens. It's also low-maintenance -- the grass is made of SYNLawn synthetic turf that never requires watering or mowing.
I'd like to play my third shot again on the last hole of the 1999 Open at Carnoustie. I was unlucky with my second shot. Johnny Miller said it was the first time a grandstand had cost a player a championship. [The ball ricocheted backward into thick rough.] Ten yards right of the gree...
GULF SHORES, Ala. -- The Gulf Shores Golf Association - home to 32 miles of sugar-white-sand beaches and nine signature courses - reports that package rounds and bookings are up 17% compared to 2011 YTD. In addition, 100% of visitors who filled out a guest satisfaction survey reported...
Welcome to another edition of Fantasy Fix, where we learned there are things that can cause Matt Kuchar's ever-present smile to grow even wider -- 1.7 million of them in fact. It was a big week for me in Jacksonville as well as I extended my mythical Ripken-like streak of eating at th...
When I'm hitting the ball great, I know my arms and body are matching up well. But sometimes my body takes over at the start of the downswing. That's when I can hit some crooked shots. I want my arms to pull my body, not the other way around, in both directions--swinging back and swin...
Fred Couples, who has a masters degree from the Yogi Berra School of Communications, was once lamenting about the overuse of the word "great" in contemporary culture. "I'm not great," Freddy said in an honest evaluation of a game that produced 15 PGA Tour wins and one major championsh...
In a case of perfect timing, the PGA TOUR returns to Texas this week for the HP Byron Nelson Championship, an event that carries the name of the man remembered as much for the way he conducted his life as the way he once dominated the sport. It is quite probable that Nelson's record o...
When Mark McCormack founded International Management Group in 1960, the agency was small but packed with potential, having signed Arnold Palmer as its first client. In the ensuing years, many of golf’s greats – Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Greg Norman and Tiger Woods among them – have b...
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Gov. Rick Scott says golf is so important to Florida’s economy that, in a state with more than 1,200 golf courses, more should be built. In visiting the recent Players Championship here, Scott, a first-term Republican, outlined the economic benefits that the ...
Touring pros don't get paid if they don't play. Similarly, fantasy gamers don't score when guys rest. We're entering that phase of the season during which the value of starts increases. Read my Fantasy Mailbag on Wednesday for more on this critical dynamic in piecing together a league...
These scholarships range from $500 to $6,000. Applicants must be enrolled in a recognized undergraduate program in a major field related to turf management, have completed at least 24 credit hours or the equivalent of one year of full-time study in the appropriate major, and be a memb...
How it works: Our experts from PGATOUR.COM select the player they think will win this week's event. By using a draft process, no two picks can be the same. The player who wins the previous week picks last the following week. MORE: Power Rankings | Inside the Field | Inside the Course ...
For golf generations, divots have been the bane of golfers and superintendents, making divot repair and divot management programs an integral part of golf course maintenance practices. In a 1941 installment of the “Greenskeeper’s Reporter,” a story even quoted three greens chairmen as...
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- DUSTIN RETURNS: Dustin Johnson will have missed nearly three months when he returns at the Memorial. Johnson aggravated a back injury while lifting a jet ski from the water the weekend before the Masters, and he has not played since then. He has slipped to N...
DESTIN, Fla. -- LPGA Hall-of-Famer Annika Sorenstam was joined by the biggest names in sports and entertainment for the inaugural Annika & Friends at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort last weekend. Olympians Michelle Kwan, Dan Jansen and Bode Miller; actor Alfonso Ribeiro; "Dancing With...
NEW YORK -- Golf Town will buy Golfsmith International Holdings Inc. for about $96.5 million, the Canadian retailer said Monday, more than doubling its store base and significantly expanding its presence in the United States. Under the terms of the agreement, the Toronto-based company...
Patrick Reed continues to find his way into PGA Tour events. Reed doesn’t have a Tour card, but will be making his fourth start in five weeks at this week’s HP Byron Nelson Championship. He won the Nelson’s Monday qualifier by three shots with a 64 at Lantana (Texas) Golf Club. The 21...
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- In more peaceful times, when Tiger Woods had gone six months without losing and golf seemed to revolve around him, he ended a monthly newsletter with a rare trip to the soap box to complain about the pace of play on the PGA Tour. ''Before I go, I would like ...
As a kid, I always looked up to players who spent time with their fans, or were good role models in a general sense. So I feel honored to be in that position now, especially when parents say they're proud their kids look up to me. Seeing the young girls and little boys wearing my hat ...
, who won last year in just the second PGA TOUR start of his career. Vegas put together two of the biggest weekend rounds of his career, going 68-70 at TPC Sawgrass, to notch his first top-10 finish of the season and move from 158th to 121st in the latest FedExCup standings.
Long live the King! In this week's Game Changers, one company has partnered with golf icon Arnold Palmer to continue his legacy - and fashion sense - in golf for a long time to come.
POUND RIDGE, N.Y. -- Pound Ridge Golf Club - the public Pete Dye-design in Westchester County - has named Kevin Nalepka director of sales. Nalepka, a marketing and event expert with 20-plus years' experience, will oversee outing offerings, including corporate, charity and leisure tour...
How to Play Every Top-100 Golf Course in America [Free Download] The majority of America's top-100 golf courses are private, but this free guide can get you through the gates. By Craig Better Top-100 lists are great, but what would you rather do: look at a list or actually play the co...
池田勇太 初めての野球観戦 05/15/2012 | Filed under: DOL ,TOPICS | Posted by: ParGolf かつて野球界の若大将と呼ばれた原辰徳監督とゴルフ界の若大将が初対面。「今度 キャディしようか」との原監督の言葉は現実となるか!? 野球観戦も球場に足を運んだのも初めてで、新鮮だったよ」 という池田勇太。初めて目にするバックスクリーンのボール、ストライク、アウトを示す掲示板を見て、 「あのB、S、Oというのはブリヂストンオープンの略か？」 と、冗談とも本気とも取れる発言で笑いを誘った。 日清食品所属の池田は、第80回日本プ...
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- Tiger Woods is heading to the hills this summer to play in The Greenbrier Classic. Tournament organizers said that Woods had committed to play July 5-8 in the event, which began only two years ago. It is played on The Old White TPC Course, where two yea...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- For the next four weeks on Tuesdays in primetime and leading to the playing of the 2012 U.S. Open Championship, Golf Channel will reprise some of the most memorable final rounds of our national championship. The special replays begin tonight (Tuesday, May 15) at 8 p.m...
Callaway’s RAZR Fit and Tour Authentic RAZR Fit drivers also incorporate a proprietary innovation in aerodynamic shaping called Streamlined Surface Technology that addresses the complex variations in aerodynamic flow during a driver’s entire downswing-from transition through impact. M...
