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Observations from the SHO
The following are a few observations from my annual trek to the Shell Houston Open at the Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club: As I've noted on a number of occasions, the Tournament Course has a reasonable number of interesting...
What the Tour players really think
Golf Digest is running in this month's issue the results of an interesting survey that the magazine recently took of 25 of the top PGA Tour players. Clear Thinkers favorite and longtime Houstonian Steve Elkington scores highly in one...
Elegant Elk
Clear Thinkers favorite and longtime Houstonian Steve Elkington (PGA Tour page here) is now 45 years old and past his prime on the PGA Tour, where he has won a major (the 1995 PGA at Riviera), is a ten...
It's 2008 Shell Houston Open Week
Following on this post from a couple of weeks ago, this week's Shell Houston Open at Redstone Golf Club has its best field in years (previous posts here), which includes the following top 25 players in the World Golf...
Elk gets his spikes right
Houstonian and Clear Thinkers favorite Steve Elkington apparently found a U.S. Open qualifier this year that allowed the competitors to wear spikes on their shoes. Elk fired a 36 hole score of 137 (64-73) to earn one of the 16...
The Mickelson Affair
Phil Mickelson has had quite a year already -- one PGA Tour win, blowing another one on the 18th hole, replacing swing coaches. But none of that compared to the firestorm that Philly Mick provoked last week when he got...
That lovable Elk
Houston's Steve Elkington is not only an outstanding professional golfer, but he is witty and outspoken. So, it was no real surprise that this Age article contains the following observation by the acerbic Elk from this week's Chrysler Championship at...
John Daly storms the Beatles hometown
The 135th edition of the British Open begins today, and the venerable tournament has returned to Liverpool -- the gritty hometown of the Beatles -- for the first time in 40 years. As you might expect, 1995 British Open champ...
Elk tells Lakeside and the USGA to shove it
Houston's Steve Elkington failed to qualify for next week's U.S. Open Golf Tournament at New York's venerable Winged Foot Golf Club during yesterday's sectional qualifying tournament at Houston's Lakeside Country Club, but at least he went out with a splash....
It's 2006 Shell Houston Open Week
This is Shell Houston Open week, and this year's tournament is a particularly interesting edition of the venerable local stop on the PGA Tour. As noted in this earlier post, the SHO is still recovering from a series of dubious...
The remarkable Jack Burke
One of things that makes Houston such an endearing place to live is the city's many characters, one of the most colorful of whom is Jack Burke, Jr., the former PGA Tour professional who retired at the age of 35...
Dick Harmon, R.I.P.
The Houston and U.S. golfing communities are in shock this morning with the news that Dick Harmon -- one of the four brothers who are among the best golf instructors in the United States -- died unexpectedly on Friday morning...
Final PGA Tour Money List
With Brad Bryant's surprisingly easy win in the season-ending Tour Championship yesterday, the PGA Tour's all-important money list is final for the 2005 season. Some interesting notes: Tiger Woods won again with over $10.6 million in winnings, which works out...
Elk on the advantages of being a Houstonian
One of my favorite professional golfers is fellow Houstonian and University of Houston alum Steve Elkington. Elk is just two shots out of the lead going into the final round of the PGA Golf Championship this weekend, and he noted...
It's 2005 Shell Houston Open week
The 2005 Shell Houston Open is this week at Redstone Golf Club as the no. 2 ranked player in the world -- Vijay Singh -- returns to defend his 2004 title. Shreveport native David Toms, the ninth-ranked player in the...
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