The most arena-like atmosphere on the PGA Tour is the raucous par three sixteenth hole at TPC Scottsdale during the Waste Management Open each February. But the complex at TPC Sawgrass which encompasses the approach and green at #16, as… Continue Reading
It’s wonderful to see a redemptive story like Webb Simpson’s PLAYERS Championship victory. He had struggled from the day he was forced to give up his long putter. After all he won the 2012 U.S. Open with that broomstick but… Continue Reading
The PGA Tour crowned Webb Simpson as their PLAYERS Champion today but he didn’t win the tournament today. Simpson’s final round amounted to a victory lap, a walk in the park as he had used his first three rounds to… Continue Reading
Late Thursday afternoon I settled into a prime piece of real estate on the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course, the back row of the public stadium seating behind seventeen green, just right of the huge video board. The top level of… Continue Reading
When The PLAYERS rolls around each year talk inevitably turns to the question of it’s status in the pantheon of world golf- is this the 5th Major? The old adage seems to apply, that if it walks like a duck,… Continue Reading
The second week of April has been synonymous with The Masters forever, it seems, but the second week of May has only hosted The PLAYERS since 2007 and this year will be the last May showing for The PLAYERS, as… Continue Reading
March is a prime time for cold, snow bound, frustrated northern golfers to head to warmer southern shores to get an early start to their golf seasons. There are dozens of resorts and golf Mecca’s in the southeast, from Myrtle… Continue Reading
Most golf fans have a list of famous courses they long to play and here in the U.S. not many are more familiar to fans, serious or casual, than TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Florida. Corporate home of the PGA… Continue Reading
1. I think Jason Day’s win at The PLAYERS was damn impressive. He took apart TPC Sawgrass the first two rounds with a 63-66 start. If the Tour doesn’t screw up the greens on Saturday he could have made a… Continue Reading
Jason Day continued his dominating streak of golf today with his wire to wire win at The PLAYERS Championship. Since his win at the RBC Canadian Open last July Day has won in seven of his last seventeen starts. That’s… Continue Reading