SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The U.S. Ryder Cup team was waiting to catch a charter flight to Paris late Sunday in Atlanta when the man everyone was waiting for arrived. “We had a major victory for the team and we had a whole group of guys waiting in the team room, and then a giant roar […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Seve Ballesteros might have been a magician with a sand wedge, but he was truly hell on wheels. As Europe’s captain at the 1997 Ryder Cup in his native Spain, Ballesteros led his team with a heavy foot, racing across the emerald landscape in a souped-up Club Car festooned with blue flags. “All week long […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – As he’s proven in the past Dustin Johnson isn’t averse to switching things up when it comes to his putting, but this was extreme even for him. Johnson switched to a cross-handed grip on the sixth hole during Saturday’s third round at the Tour Championship and continued to use the same grip […]
After months of anticipation, the Ryder Cup is finally here. And while the United States is favored to take home the trophy in Europe for the first time in 25 years, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee believes it’s not quite that simple. Appearing on a recent edition of the Golf Channel podcast, Chamblee laid out […]
We’ve heard it a million times: Tiger Woods doesn’t just move the needle, he IS the needle. Here’s more proof. NBC Sports Group’s final-round coverage of Woods claiming his 80th career victory in the Tour Championship earned a 5.21 overnight rating, making it the highest-rated telecast in the history of the FedExCup Playoffs and the […]
We’re marveling again. This time over the essence of the man as much as the athlete, over what Tiger Woods summoned to repair, rebuild and redeem himself, after scandal and injury so ruinously rocked his career. We watched in wonder Sunday as Woods completed the greatest comeback in the history of sport. That’s how we’re […]
The red shirt and ground-shaking roars. The steely glare and sweet swings. The tactical precision and ruthless efficiency. If not for the iPhone-wielding mob following his every move, you’d swear that golf had been transported to the halcyon days of the early 2000s. The Tiger Time Machine kicked into overdrive at East Lake, where Woods […]
ATLANTA – There will never be a moment like this one. A moment like this, you want to stop it. You want to live in it. You want to keep it in your pocket for whenever you might need it. For whatever is to come, for now, for the moment, everything is perfect. Let’s stop […]
How to Survive Without Golf in France By Edward Kiersh Though the hillsides are covered with vineyards, and not golf courses, the scenery in this rich part of France is captivating especially if the traveler makes it a point to visit small, 16th and 17th century hill towns. One must-see gem is Flavian-Sur-Ozerain, not far […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The European Ryder Cup team began its week by laughing at itself. Noted impressionist Conor Moore made a 10-minute clip in which he took turns poking fun at the 12 team members in a press-conference setting. The video has not, and probably will not, be made public. “It was extremely funny, I […]