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Houston's connection to the new U.S. Open champion
Houston is synonymous with golf, so it's appropriate that new U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover's former teacher and mentor was the late Dick Harmon (see also here), who was one of Houston's most respected golf instructors for decades before...
Jenkins returns to Sawgrass
Clear Thinkers favorites Dan Jenkins, the dean of American golf writers, is making his first trek to TPC Sawgrass in a decade this week to cover my favorite tournament, The Players (which includes the always fun video of the...
The "Rookies and Rednecks" come through
What with a hurricane hitting the upper Texas coast and a financial hurricane hammering Wall Street, the U.S. team's improbably stirring victory over the European team in last weekend's Ryder Cup matches has been somewhat overlooked. As usual, Geoff...
Interesting golf fact of the day
What with Hurricane Ike and the meltdown on Wall Street -- as well as my general pessimism about the U.S. team's chances -- I haven't blogged much about this weekend's Ryder Cup matches at Valhalla in Louisville. But Clear...
Here we go again?
With the completion of the PGA Championship this past weekend, the eight automatic qualifiers for the 12-man 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team were named for next month's matches at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville (Sept. 16-21). U.S. team captain...
And you thought your boss was bad?
Argentina's Angel Cabrera won the U.S. Torture er, I mean, Open Golf Tournament yesterday over Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk, but the more interesting story from the Open was Colin Montgomerie's extraordinary effort to retain his "most unpopular golfer" status...
Champions Cypress Creek overrated?
Don't expect Jack Burke, owner of Houston's venerable Champions Golf Club, to be taking out any new subscriptions of Golf Magazine any time soon after this Golf.com article rates Champions' Cypress Creek Golf Course as the fifth most overrated course...
One of those "unimportant" tournaments
With the following breathless description of the additional player commitments for next week's Shell Houston Open, the Chronicle continues to put the best face on an increasingly troubling situation for the local tournament: SHO update The Shell Houston Open fortified...
Gearing up already for the 2008 Ryder Cup
Paul Azinger was the choice earlier in the month to be the captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team for the 2008 matches at Valhalla in Louisville, and Golf World's John Hawkins thinks it's a great choice: In his prime...
Boom-Boom, those feuding Jones boys and other fall golf notes
Yeah, I know it's football season in Texas and no other sport really matters, but I've been wanting to pass along a few interesting tidbits from the golf world. John Hawkins reports that Fred Couples, a fan favorite in Houston...
Ryder Cup redux
Following on his earlier comments about the abysmal American Ryder Cup team's performance noted here, Golf Digest and Golf World European correspondent John Huggan is continuing to have a lot of fun at the expense of the American squad members....
Ryder Cup post-mortem
John Huggan is the European correspondent for both Golf Digest and Golf World magazines, and his thoughts on the just-concluded Ryder Cup matches addresses the rather embarrassing question of whether the U.S. team has fallen so far behind the European...
Well, at least we were good sports
After losing the Ryder Cup over the weekend for the fifth time in the last six competitions, the United States team is certainly an easy target for criticism and the golf writers are taking dead aim: The Houston Chronicle's golf...
Why aren't the U.S. teams winning the Ryder Cup?
Damon Hack of the NY Times reports on the boys' road trip of the U.S. Ryder Cup team a couple of weeks ago "to bond" before this week's matches (and to try and figure out why the U.S. has gotten...
More gripping for the Ryder Cup matches
As noted here earlier, there is something about the upcoming Ryder Cup matches next week in Ireland (perhaps that the American squad has lost four of the last five matches?) that provokes some entertaining reactions. In this IdahoStatesman.com article, NBC...
It's football season, so let's talk golf
The start of the college football season over the Labor Day weekend tends to overwhelm all other sports news, but it's hard to overlook the fact that Tiger Woods shot a 63 yesterday to win his fifth straight golf tournament,...
Gripping already for the Ryder Cup
The United States has lost four out of the last five Ryder Cup competitions, so it's not particularly surprising that some U.S. golf fans are viewing the 2006 Ryder Cup competition next month at the K Club in Ireland with...
The PGA channels the Ryder Cup
As Tiger Woods strolled to his 12th victory in a major golf championship yesterday (second now only to Jack Nicklaus' 18 major wins), the big news out of Medinah was the confirmation of the ten players who earned a spot...
The best major?
The fourth and final major professional golf tournament of the year begins today in the western suburbs of Chicago as the PGA Championship returns to Medinah Country Club. Golf World's Tim Rosaforte provides ten reasons why the PGA is not...
Maggert breaks through at Memphis
My neighbor in The Woodlands, Jeff Maggert, shot a 31 on the back nine yesterday of the TPC Southwind Golf Course in Memphis on his way to a final round, five-under-par 65 and his first PGA Tour win in seven...
Dan Jenkins on The Masters
Regular readers of this blog know that Dan Jenkins is my favorite golf writer, bar none. Mr. Jenkins still covers each golf major tournament for Golf Digest magazine, and his article (not yet online) on this year's Master's tournament appears...
Woosie to lead European Ryder Cup team
Ian Woosnam will be announced today as the captain of the European team in the 2006 Ryder Cup competition that will be played at Kildare Golf and Country Club, Straffan, County Kildare, Irelandin Ireland. Just what we need -- a...
Euro reaction to America's new Ryder Cup captain
From the complaining contained in this London Telegraph op-ed, it sounds as if the PGA of America may have finally chosen the right captain in Tom Lehman to revive America's flagging Ryder Cup fortunes: Lehman's record in the Ryder Cup...
You gotta love the European Tour
Not only do they kick the American team's rear in the Ryder Cup, the European Tour is much more interesting than the usually staid American Tour. First, this article reports on Seve Ballesteros going nuclear on a European Tour official,...
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