The Shorty: Lady Luck Smiles
SPRINGFIELD, NEW JERSEY | If luck is the residue of hard work and design, the PGA of America’s hard work at its signature championship will never be questioned, even if the design is second-guessed....
View ArticleThe Shorty: Ryder Rumblings
You can bet that Ryder Cup captains Darren Clarke and Davis Love III had their antennae up during Sunday’s golf developments. Russell Knox’s victory at the Travelers Championship and Jim Furyk’s PGA...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Medal Tested
Say what you will – even if you managed to overcome the never-ending, needless barrage of genuflecting about the Olympics you were force fed on television – golf’s inclusion in Rio was enough of a...
View ArticleThe Shorty: 24-Karat Golf
For all the doubters and naysayers, for those who thought major championships and biennial cups were enough for big-time golf, for those who chose to stay home and watch (maybe), we give you the...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Gut Churning
The Ryder Cup captains – Europe’s Darren Clarke and Davis Love III for the U.S. – must be eating antacids like popcorn these days the way the teams are – and aren’t – shaping up with four weeks before...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Rearview Mirror
Major season is officially over and in the nine majors in the men’s and women’s game we had nine different winners who won in nine different ways. Danny Willett suddenly found The Masters in his lap...
View ArticleSpecial Edition: Arnold Palmer, 1929-2016
This is the saddest day in golf. Arnold Daniel Palmer, the game’s most beloved icon and one of the world’s great sportsmen, died Sunday afternoon at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was 87....
View ArticleThe Shorty: Heartbeat City
If the final few holes of the Tour Championship were prelude for this week’s Ryder Cup, don’t stray far from your television. Rory McIlroy’s playoff win over Ryder Cupper-in-waiting Ryan Moore was some...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Grand Design
CHASKA, MINNESOTA | Hand it to the Europeans, they are better celebrators. Yes, there was the requisite champagne spraying by the U.S. team following their Ryder Cup victory Sunday. But when Ryan Moore...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Seasonal Allergy
So, here we are again. It’s the middle of October and the PGA Tour season has finished and started over almost in the same month. This is 2016-17 if you’re keeping up at home and no matter how much...
View ArticleThe Shorty: Just a Number
If professional golf teaches us anything, we know it’s never too early to get on the road to stardom and it’s never too late to remain relevant. Justin Thomas at age 23 won his second PGA Tour event,...
View ArticleThe 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...
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