I maintain that the reason the golf world works itself into such a tizzy “over the selection of the Ryder Cup team”:http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/SPORTS01/809030392/1108/SPORTS01 is because it’s closest the game gets to other sports.

Think about it. In the other sport I cover, hockey, the two most anxiously-anticipated days are the day of the trade deadline and the [...]

It seems like I’ve written countless stories about some unlikely third-round leader who claims he’s ready to contend on Sunday. Kevin Streelman “is another one of those”:http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/SPORTS01/808240356/1108/SPORTS01.

A PGA Tour rookie, with only one top-five finish to his credit, Streelman is most likely today to hit his first drive off a corporate tent and into [...]

So much energy is expended trying to figure out why certain guys play well on certain courses. Is it the style of architecture? The length? The galleries?

It’s probably all of the above, not to mention the type of grass, the weather, the food, and whether or not you got stuck in traffic on the way [...]

So let me get this straight:

Hunter Mahan “rips the PGA of America and the Ryder Cup”:http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1826837-3,00.html, says how much he prefers the Presidents Cup, then misses the cut at the PGA….and still wants to be included on the U.S. Ryder Cup team???!!!!

Well, you can get away with that sort of thing when you shoot 62, [...]

By almost all accounts, the pre-tournament reviews of Ridgewood Country Club have been positive, to the extent that players’ affections for Westchester Country Club sound like a distant memory. To wit, Phil Mickelson:
I like Westchester. I think it’s a great golf course. I do feel as though Ridgewood is a step up in quality. I’ve [...]

Actually, I don’t get a vote for PGA Tour Player of the Year. That’s only for players, and seeing how my low round of the year is an 86 (and that was very good for me), I’m pretty sure I don’t qualify.

But one of the early storylines emerging this week at The Barclays is who [...]

Chances are if you’re visiting a golf blog, you know about, and presumably care a little about this year-old venture known as the FedEx Cup. The question is how much?

I’ll say my piece here from the press room at The Barclays at Westchester Ridgewood Country Club: I care more about golf at this time of [...]

I had long been resistant to those naysayers who said the golf season was officially over the moment Tiger Woods pulled his rip cord on 2008. And given the drama of Greg Norman at the British Open, I thought I was on to something.

Except here comes the PGA with that walking charisma factory known as [...]

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 [...]