I won’t lie: I was rooting for the guy.

There aren’t many people who can be insanely wealthy, possess world-class talent and have Chris Evert on their arm and still come across as a sympathetic character.  Greg Norman is that guy.

One of my first epiphanies that golf produces drama like no other sport came watching Norman’s [...]

The key to winning the Ryder Cup is to not have Tiger Woods on your team. I’m kidding…sort of.

But think about it: one of the Americans’ major obstacles has been overcoming their own perceived surplus of talent in comparison to the relatively unimpressive Europeans. This, of course, to paraphrase the Brits, is complete rubbish. The [...]

So here’s my take on the new Pound Ridge Golf Club in today’s paper. The abridged version: I liked it a lot, but my ego and my wallet couldn’t afford to play there on a regular basis.

Which is fine. I doubt a sports writer with a mortgage and two kids is what owner Ken Wang [...]

I’ll have a few stories coming next week on the opening of the Pound Ridge Golf Club, the new daily fee layout in, you guessed it, Pound Ridge that was designed by the legendary Pete Dye.

I was out there last week, and the course, transformed from a former 9-hole facility, is indeed a spectacular place. [...]

In a related story to today’s Tiger Woods bombshell is this report in which Retief Goosen says he was only joking when he said Woods was faking his knee injury during the Open.
“I was joking, really. I mean, how do I know? I never spoke to the guy,” Goosen said. “He’s got a sore knee, [...]

That hiss you’re hearing is the air going out of the rest of the golf season.

The AP’s indefatigable Doug Ferguson breaks the story of Tiger Woods now being forced to miss the rest of the year because he needs more surgery on his left knee.

And to think at one point I thought Woods may have [...]

So why was this U.S. Open in particular so riveting?

Yes, there was the compelling theater of seeing the game’s greatest player stared down by a guy who could easily be your next door neighbor. There was the golf course set dramatically on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. There was the energy emanating from grandstands [...]

There are few things in life that are as universally deplorable as the 18 hole playoff. Everyone hates it: the players, the writers, the golf fans who now will either a) miss out on the playoff because they’re working; or b) furtively try to watch the playoff during work, which is fine unless those [...]

Andy Svoboda knew this was the deal when he boarded a plane for San Diego as the second alternate into the U.S. Open. He knew alternates could only hit balls and putt, and  could only walk the actual golf course.

Still, the Larchmont resident probably didn’t expect the experience to be so torturous. Imagine having a [...]

I played my first round of golf in nearly a year this past weekend, an admission that may lead to my banishment from the honorable fraternity of golf-obsessed golf writers. There’s a lot of blame to go around for that layoff: my two sons, my boss, my hockey stick and tennis racket. While you’re at [...]