Is it too early to talk 2008 PGA Championship?

The 2008 PGA Championship will be contested at Detroit’s Oakland Hills Golf Course. Rees Jones, following in his father’s footsteps, has completed yet another overhaul on the course. Having attended both the 1996 US Open and 2004 Ryder Cup at the golf course, I can understand the need to continue to renovate. The course is, [...]

“The Nonconforming Driver”

I admit that I love that headline. Geoff Shackelford has been covering this story at length on Walter Driver’s tenure as USGA president, but I want to throw it in here just for the sake of completeness to my own disgruntled feelings for the USGA’s continued lack of sensible technology control and absurd US Open [...]

Running Horse tournament gallops to Florida

Golf course architect Donald Trump has put a bid in on the Running Horse project. His original bid of $10 million was rejected – but the Donald doesn’t go down without a fight.
Donald Trump told Action News Anchor Liz Harrison by phone Tuesday afternoon that he is ready to begin work on Running Horse immediately [...]

Turning Stone makes changes for the pros

Another relatively new course has gone under the knife to deal with the distance the pros are hitting the golf ball – Atunyote Golf Club. Home to the PGA Tour’s Turning Stone Resort Championship, the golf course was designed by Tom Fazio.
“The changes were made to toughen up the course for the pros,” Falvo said. [...]

The Golf Club of Cape Cod opens

Rees Jones newest design, The Golf Club of Cape Cod, opened last week. The private club is located in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Looking at the press release and this article on the opening, there’s little that would necessarily be worthy of drawing attention to.
There is an older interview with Jones at GolfonCapeCod.com.
Most of the tees [...]

“I want you to make sure that your man here writes a good story about me. But whether he does or he doesn’t, I’m still worth six billion dollars.”

Golf course architect Donald Trump is the subject of this lengthy Michael Bamberger article at golf.com. The article is so long and interesting that I have no idea what to clip to post here because there is simply too much information worth retaining. The best I could come up was the headline, which was Trump’s [...]

South Florida courses faces watering fines

The drought in Florida continues and the golf courses who aren’t following the rules are getting slapped with fines.
Failing to play by new watering rules could cost 13 South Florida golf courses cited for failing to meet drought-induced irrigation limits.
The South Florida Water Management District on Tuesday released the names of the golf courses, including [...]

Harding Park fees likely to increase

More evidence that redoing a golf course just isn’t worth the effort and cost to attract a professional golf tournament can be seen at San Fransisco’s Harding Park golf course. The course continues to operate in the red – to the tune of $1.4 million. In an attempt to bail out the course, the city [...]

In case you’re suffering from environmental guilt…

playing golf, you’re not the only one. (This blogger is not, by the way.) But take heart if you break a sweat each type you mash down on that gas-powered-climate-changin’ golf cart that others are thinking of ways to make golf more “eco friendly”.

TPC Smorgasbord: Avenel, Boston, Myrtle Beach, San Antonio, Scottsdale

Updates from all over on the ever changing TPCs.
TPC Avenel
Geoff Shackelford heads off the updates, with the find of Leonard Shapiro’s WaPo coloum on changes being made to Avenel – who hopes to nab Tiger’s event from Congressional. The Tour is sinking some major cash into the deal.
The PGA Tour, Sullivan said, has set the [...]

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