Category Archives: GOLFESCU’s Journal

Hacking around at the U.S. Hickory Open Golf Championship

Hacking around at the U.S. Hickory Open Written by Bo Turocy. Photographs by Hannah Fontenot Mentz. The 11th annual U.S. Hickory Open hosted by the Society of Hickory Golfers just wrapped up on Halloween.  The 36-hole stroke play event was contested across the 1926 Donald Ross layout at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, NC.  This […]

QUICK TAKE: After Ryder Cup Captaincy, Furyk Enjoys Return To Competition

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO | After spending the last year and a half thinking about managing the game of others, Jim Furyk is back to thinking about his own. The U.S. Ryder Cup captain didn’t guide his team to a victory in Paris for the Ryder Cup, but he’s found a nice refuge in Mexico […]

QUICK TAKE: Ten Years After Mexico Triumph, Gay Back In Contention

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO | For Brian Gay, it doesn’t seem like his 2008 victory at the Mayakoba Golf Classic happened 10 years ago. “Yeah, it feels like 20,” he deadpanned. Life has certainly changed since his first PGA Tour victory, one that came in the 293rd start of his career. Gay’s daughter, Makinley, came […]

QUICK TAKE: With Wife On Playing Partner’s Bag, Kuchar Goes Low At Mayakoba

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO | It’s rare but not terribly uncommon for a wife of a professional golfer to caddie for her husband, as evidenced by past partnerships like Nicki Stricker looping for her husband, Steve, or Justine Reed taking the bag for her husband, Patrick. What you won’t almost certainly won’t see is a […]

First Look: Cleveland Huntington Beach SOFT Putters

When it comes to putters, you have three distinct groups: the it’s all about looks and feel crowd, the it’s Scotty (or Betti) or bust crowd, and the those fancy putters won’t make you putt better, plus they’re too damned expensive crowd. There’s a small – but growing – fourth crowd: the I get the […]

Belfry Wins ‘World’s Best Golf Hotel’ At World Golf Awards

The Belfry Hotel & Resort has won two awards at the 2018 World Golf Awards held in La Manga, Spain. The North Warwickshire venue won the ‘World’s Best Golf Hotel’ and the ‘England’s Best Golf Course’ at the 2018 awards, which celebrate and reward excellence for golf tourism, courses and destinations. Top-quality facilities and leisure attractions, […]

QUICK TAKE: As Mayakoba Tournament Grows, So Does Mexican Golf

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO | A lot has changed since February 2007 when the PGA Tour came to Mexico to stage an opposite-field event. Some changes can be measured in numbers, like how the purse of the Mayakoba Golf Classic has gone from $3.5 million to $7.2 million for this year — that is a […]