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Like the Rest of Us, Jack Nicklaus Loves Football Too
by Jeff Skinner You know it is a slow part of the golf season when the first question your golf buddy asks on Sunday is “How’d Jack Nicklaus’ kid do?” Jack’s kid, grandkid actually, did pretty good. Nick O’Leary is… Continue Reading
USGA-Fox Deal All About the Money Says Frank Hannigan
by Jeff Skinner The reverberations from the USGA-Fox Sports deal are still being felt around the golf world. With the USGA abandoning NBC, its partner of nearly two decades, the controversy has obviously stung one of the USGA’s own. Former… Continue Reading
How NBC Lost the U.S. Open
by Jeff Skinner How does NBC lose the U.S. Open? How does Fox steal it from them? And what in the heck is Fox Sports 1? Here’s the answers from Ron Sirak in Golf World. As usual it’s all about… Continue Reading
USGA Upstages PGA Championship with Move to Fox
by Jeff Skinner The United States Golf Association and Fox Sports have announced that the USGA will be leaving NBC and ESPN and has signed a twelve year deal to air the U.S. Open and other USGA events. After nineteen… Continue Reading
Stacy Lewis: “The Best Shot I Ever Hit”
by Jeff Skinner Here’s some video of Stacy Lewis’ win at St. Andrews. Pay attention to her shot coming into seventeen. She called it her best ever. Her birdies on seventeen and eighteen finished a great comeback and an historic… Continue Reading
Mickelson, Poulter, Dufner: Hole Locations Unfair
by Jeff Skinner With the dry weather at Muirfield a few of the hole locations have come under attack by players already in the clubhouse. Phil Mickelson, still feeling the sting of a three putt at the last says the… Continue Reading
Honor Our Patriots, Past & Present
3 Minutes with Tiger…”The Open is a Grind.”
PGA Tour vs USGA…Round 1
by Jeff Skinner When Tim Finchem used the WGC Match Play as a forum for his “anti-ban” announcement he accomplished two things. He stole the spotlight away from champion Matt Kuchar and he ignited a firestorm they could have used… Continue Reading