GolfChannel and TV Shopping
You know what I’m tired of? Waking up in the mornings with my 3 year-old, turning on the TV, flipping to the Golf Channel and finding yet another infomercial. Some days I flip to the channel a couple...
View ArticleSympatico/MSN column: CN train prepared to leave LPGA behind?
My latest MSN/Sympatico column is now live — stemming from a tip I received that CN wasn’t altogether thrilled about the way it has been treated by the LPGA, which has a half dozen tournaments without...
View ArticleWeir’s Near Record; Taylor in the Hunt
Fascinating golf yesterday from Mike Weir. If a couple of putts had fallen that burned the lip on his front nine — he could have broke the US Open scoring record. If it makes the short one while making...
View ArticleFord Gretzky Nationwide Event Next Week — Does Anyone Care?
It wasn’t that long ago that the CPGA Championship disappeared after merging with the Nationwide Tour and holding the event in Cambridge, Ont. at Whistlebear Golf Club. The reason? Hardly anyone paid...
View ArticleGreg Norman, Crissy Evert Split
I guess that makes this segment of Golf in America on Golf Channel, where the unnaturally tanned Rich Lerner gets a lesson from Greg and Crissy, seem even stranger than it did before. The fairytale...
View ArticleDaly Retires, Puts Ping Wedges on eBay
Okay, well not really. Or definitely maybe? Who is to say what John Daly will do next, and I’m not really sure I care. After two more lousy rounds — Daly has rarely played well in the last six years —...
View ArticleTiger Talks — But Is He Really Saying Anything?
In another of what I expect are carefully considered and scripted events, Tiger Woods offered two five minute interviews today, both done at Isleworth in Florida. One was done with the Golf Channel,...
View ArticleMemorial Picks and Bulging…uh…Discs
You know, there were so many ways I fantasized about starting off this article, the follow-up to my debut as a golf tourney prognosticator for CanadianGolfer.com. Oddly enough, as I played all the...
View ArticleSympatico Column
I’ve been on holiday for a few days with the kids and working on completing my book on Eagles Nest. In the meantime, here’s a column from earlier in the week on the Champions Tour event in Montreal....
View ArticleGretzky Nationwide Tour Event —“The Place Gave Me a Bad Vibe”
A few years ago I made the drive up to the Collingwood region for the inaugural Gretzky Celeb Nationwide Tour event. I interviewed Gretzky, spoke to one of the Nationwide Tour officials, and went home....
View ArticleGraham DeLaet: “It took a long time, but I feel like I belong out here.”
Graham DeLaet, who I’m hoping to catch up with tomorrow, managed a tie for sixth yesterday at the Frys (shouldn’t that be “Fries…) event. This comes despite talk that he had some back issues, the...
View ArticleOn Bing and Bob…and Boy Bands?
Speaking of Rocco…here’s a graphic example of just how much one good week means right now for a TON of players desperately hoping to hang onto their tour cards. Going into the Frys.com Open, Rocco...
View ArticleWhat Rhymes With Thongchai?
I have to admit that I got caught with my pants down this week. No, not in a "True Confessions, Pee Wee Herman at the Cineplex," kind of way...but my literal pants were down around my Soft Joys because...
View ArticleNationwide Tour Schedule Out — Gretzky Event is History?
The Nationwide Tour schedule is out today and perhaps not too surprisingly, Wayne Gretzky’s troubled celebrity eventin Collingwood is not listed. It looks like the end for the troubled event. I broke...
View ArticleDoes adding the PGA Tour logo to the Canadian Tour make an immediate difference?
I think the answer to the question is no. On its premise, the announcement that the PGA Tour was enveloping the Canadian Tour was not a surprise. The PGA Tour spent too long doing due diligence to walk...
View ArticleWeir's Near Record; Taylor in the Hunt
Fascinating golf yesterday from Mike Weir. If a couple of putts had fallen that burned the lip on his front nine — he could have broke the US Open scoring record. If it makes the short one while making...
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Ford Gretzky Nationwide Event Next Week — Does Anyone Care?
Don't ask me about Phoenix....Gretzky's Nationwide event is struggling It wasn’t that long ago that the CPGA Championship disappeared after merging with the Nationwide Tour and holding the event in...
View ArticleGreg Norman, Crissy Evert Split
I guess that makes this segment of Golf in America on Golf Channel, where the unnaturally tanned Rich Lerner gets a lesson from Greg and Crissy, seem even stranger than it did before. The fairytale...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Daly Retires, Puts Ping Wedges on eBay
Okay, well not really. Or definitely maybe? Who is to say what John Daly will do next, and I’m not really sure I care. After two more lousy rounds — Daly has rarely played well in the last six years —...
View ArticleTiger Talks — But Is He Really Saying Anything?
In another of what I expect are carefully considered and scripted events, Tiger Woods offered two five minute interviews today, both done at Isleworth in Florida. One was done with the Golf Channel,...
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