The Shorty: New Starts
Suppose Darren Clarke is somewhere kicking himself for not picking Alex Norén to the European Ryder Cup team instead of, say, his best mate Lee Westwood? Norén, with his fourth European Tour victory of...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Table Scraps
As professional golf winds down into the holiday season, we’ll push back away from the table from a summer overstuffed with golf and try to stay lean with a diet that doesn’t mean much for the rest of...
View ArticleThe Shorty: News Cycle
You can tell the holiday season is upon us when the biggest news of the week (look to your left) concerns someone who hasn’t done anything more than drive a golf cart and hit some balls in more than a...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Year of Firsts
If you’re not first you’re last, a movie character once said, and we’ve had a number of players find themselves first in the most important places for the first time in 2016. Dustin Johnson won a major...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Winter Wonder
Sorry, but it’s neither comfort nor consolation that we watch pictures from sunny Hawaii while we are up to our tailpipes in snow and ice, particularly those in parts of the country where winter...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Chapter and Verse
The great thing about golf is that the stories are by and large greater than the players themselves. At the end of last year’s European Tour season, Graeme Storm thought he’d lost his playing...
View ArticleThe Shorty: 59 And Counting
What we have here is your basic dilemma: Would you rather watch professionals make birdies, taking the chance that they could occasionally make a mockery of the course they’re playing? Or would you...
View ArticleQUICK TAKE: 10 Players Under 30 With The Potential To Become PGA Tour Stars
I don’t have to tell you that we’ll never replace Tiger Woods, at least not in the lifetime of anyone reading this. In fact, it will probably take 10 players to replace Tiger and his 79 PGA Tour...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Age Appropriate
In case you haven’t heard by now, youth is not wasted on the young in professional golf these days. Jon Rahm, at age 22, became the ninth twentysomething to win in 12 events in the PGA Tour’s...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Masters Class
In case you’re wondering, Hideki Matsuyama finished T7 at The Masters last year and fifth in 2015. Whether or not he can express it in English yet, the 24-year-old Japanese star in the making is...
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