Tournament Golf


Follow up to Tiger Woods Dubai

Wednesday’s story on the Tiger Woods Dubai included Tiger’s description of three holes at the golf course Tiger Woods Design is designing in Dubai called the Tiger Woods Dubai. (Repetition seems to be a theme here…)
Here are the three holes, and a link to Tiger’s website discussing the design.

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Tale of Tiger on the interstate

This story is an amusing tale of OnMilwaukee.com’s Steve Czaban’s encounter with Tiger Woods on the interstate. A little tease to get you interested.
What would happen if I accidentally rear-ended him? Would Stevie Williams pop out of the back like “The Trunk Monkey” and bury a sand wedge square in the middle of my [...]

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The Donald makes a comeback on Friday?

According to ABC 30, an offer will be made on Friday for Running Horse, but forgets to mention if it’s golf course architect Donald Trump or somebody else.
Last week, Trump withdrew his $40M offer to purchase Running Horse. Trump wanted to pay $25M in cash and $15M in profits. That deal fizzled out when the [...]

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Tiger looking at a military course redo? And a Dubai Update

Tiger Woods must have the most efficient usage of time of any human being. He’s a new father, just hosted his own tournament and is preparing for the season’s final two majors. Well, that’s not all - Geoff Shackelford finds in the Washington Post that Tiger is looking at either building his own course in [...]

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Crenshaw’s final comments on Whistling Straits

Ben Crenshaw got a second place finish at the US Senior Open at Whistling Straits golf course. He was asked one final question on his thoughts on the golf course.
Q. Where do you think this course ranks? You played them, just about played them all.
BEN CRENSHAW: This is an incredible creation. [...]

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Tiger didn’t like the ‘99 version of Carnoustie either

I thought the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie approached the biggest botched golf course setup in major championship I had ever saw. (That was until Shinnecock in 2004…) Tiger Woods commented on that tournament in the lead up to this year’s Open Championship, which returns to Carnoustie.
“It was hard. It was really hard. I’ve never [...]

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That’s why they call him Gentle Ben

An interesting line of questioning directed at Ben Crenshaw after his round at Whistling Straits, site of the US Senior Open.
Q. As an architect yourself when you see a course like this, does that possibly inspire you maybe to?
BEN CRENSHAW: This is a great piece of work. You know, I know a [...]

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Herb Kohler and the Strait Talk Express

The US Senior Open is being played this week at Whistling Straits - a course I have a tremendous amount of fascination and respect for. I got my first look at it during the 1999 Club Pro Championship and have been gaga over it ever since. (I have to admit to restraining myself from going [...]

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Crenshaw comments on Whistling Straits

Whistling Straits is just a course routed in the genius of Pete Dye. It has so many fascinating intricacies that I could spend a week just studying each hole. So, when I saw that Ben Crenshaw, a golfer and architect who I really admire, had made comments on the course, I was really curious to [...]

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The soap oprea of Running Horse continues

The current bankrupt owner of Running Horse golf course says the deal for the course by golf course architect Donald Trump is dead. Trump’s lawyers say otherwise. Nobody seems to know what really is going on.
Current Running Horse owner Mick Evans says, “They’re really close. The Trump Organization chose to stop negotiations at this point, [...]

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