Category Archives: GOLFESCU’s Journal

The ‘We’ Phenomenon

Today, there are those such as Jordan Spieth, Danny Willett and the aforementioned Fowler who use the first person plural pronoun – we – almost as much as the first person singular pronoun – I, when describing their golf exploits. John Hopkins, our man of letters, looks into this linguistic turn of events and its […]

Worry Time

Since finishing third at the Masters last April, Jordan Spieth’s only top-10 finish was a tie for ninth at the Open Championship, where he could have won last July at Carnoustie. Since then, Spieth’s golf has blurred further, a mash-up of inconsistencies of every form. Our Ron Green Jr. tries to answer the question of […]

Twenty Years Later

Twenty years on, the glow remains for David Duval. In a confluence of fate, family and fortune, Duval and his father, Bob, won golf tournaments on the same early-spring Sunday, David capturing the Players Championship while his father won the PGA Tour Champion’s Emerald Coast Classic about 350 miles south. Ron Green Jr. recalls the […]

Unforgiving finish

“Be the right club, today,” Sutton said 19 years ago on the 18th fairway of the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course. His 6-iron approach was just that, but every shot on the often-overlooked final hole is fraught with danger. The Post’s Ron Green Jr. surveyed players about the final hole on the eve of the Players […]