SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Last month, on the Italian island of Capri, a tour guide named Sasa approached an American visitor wearing an Augusta National cap. Sasa had never heard of the iconic site of the Masters, had never played 18 holes and had referred to a golf course as a golf “field.” The guide said he knew only one thing about the world’s most maddening game. More
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DUBLIN, Ohio – There are plenty of vintage touches that serve as window dressing at the Memorial Tournament, an ode to a simpler time at the home of the game’s most decorated champion.
Chief among them are the manual scoreboards. In the information age with most fans whipping out their phones to document every shot, you won’t see LED displays lining the fairways at Muirfield Village. Much like at Augusta National, everything is done by hand – from the yawning white display next to the 18th green to the wall in front of the media center, each name and score carefully adjusted one letter and number at a time. More
Since when did all the young players on the PGA Tour turn into huge snowflakes who can’t take some drunken rowdiness on the golf course from fans? It’s like a weekly occurrence where these guys are complaining about fans being drunk on the course and causing problems. We had Justin Thomas getting all triggered a few weeks ago and had a heckler kicked out of a tournament. More
