Normally I like to safety valve my blogs by stacking facts behind opinion, but in this case, I don’t need to. At the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, Jordan Spieth attributed his recent but short-lived good play down to his short game and putting; his words, not mine. Sorry, my nagging conscience has won…
DetailsHogan had no secret. Hogan had a technical solution which applied to him and thus numbed his confounding hook…. ‘sometimes’ *1955. Jacks rigid head and flying right arm was no secret. His teacher Jack Grout was an exponent of teaching quiet heads and with Jacks rotund torso, his short arms simply had to fly. Faldo’s…
DetailsI am commentating for Sky Golf this week at the Travelers Championship in Hartford Connecticut. One of the most eagerly anticipated events for the week was the transformation of stella OSU student Matthew Wolff from amateur to professional. Indeed, there are four of them including the very impressive Viktor Hovland. Yesterday (Wednesday) I perused the…
DetailsThere are times in a players career when great golf is seemingly easy (the word seemingly chosen with much emphasis) and yet there are other times when it can be akin to shoveling shit uphill, because no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you find yourself stymied behind a Great Dane…
DetailsThere’s a guy who works in my local supermarket. Small, hunched, about sixty-five years old, one tattoo and an ear ring. There’s no other word other than quirky I’m afraid. When scanning the bar codes, he appears to have the forced concentration and intensity of a man defusing a nuclear device to save a hapless…
DetailsSO, WHAT DID EXACTLY HAPPEN TO TIGER? The philosopher Alan Watts likened observing life to peering at a cat through a slit in a fence. Depending on which time you peer through the slit, you may find yourself looking at either the head, the tail or the body. Yet as we know, the head always…
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