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Longing For Long Putters
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the problems some people have with long putters. They violate the spirit of the Rules? And driver heads the size of Volkswagens don’t? Perimeter-weighted irons don’t?...
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To Improve Your Game, See A Pro
In my nearly 30 years in golf, including more than 18 at Golf Magazine, one of the saddest things I’ve learned about those who play the game is that they don’t do all they can to get better. Sure,...
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PGA Show 28: Reading The Tee Leaves
There have been 59 PGA Merchandise Shows and I’ve been to the last 28. While I’ve obviously missed a few, I’m willing to bet that it’s rarely been more difficult after a show is over to know where the...
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Medicus: New Findings Power New Golf Instruction
At one end of the PGA Merchandise show each year are the booths and hitting bays of the equipment companies, while at the other end are the fashion firms. In the middle is a little bit of everything,...
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Weight Loss for Golfers: No More Hitting It Fat
Of all the statistics I heard at the PGA Show last week, the most depressing was that 7 out of 10 golfers are overweight. Define overweight anyway you want—body-mass index, too much belly falling over...
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Tiger Is Not The Savior
There are a lot of very smart people writing about golf. And they’re not all where you might want them—in the major newspapers, in the golf magazines, on television. Sometimes you find them in...
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Lewis Black, Goose Gossage, Turning Stone Resort—and me?
I know, that headline reads like the old Sesame Street song, “One of these things is not like the other.” Although honestly, it’s as if they’re all unlike the others. Which is why I’m telling this...
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Day 4: Learning Links Golf
I think that if you asked most Americans who’ve played golf in Scotland to name their favorite course, about 7 out of 10 would say Turnberry. The Ailsa course—where Tom Watson beat Jack Nicklaus in...
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Day Three: Pawleys Plantation—All Jacked Up
Almost from the moment that the Golf Road Warriors set foot in Myrtle Beach we’d been hearing that Pawleys Plantation would be the most challenging golf course on our itinerary. Once we learned it had...
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Day Four: To School, To Shop, To Swing
Hard as it is to believe, there are other things to do in Myrtle Beach besides play golf. However, most of them involve golf in other forms. For example, the Golf Road Warriors went to college today,...
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