In April, 2011, right after Rory McIlroy’s meltdown in the final round of that year’s Masters, I predicted that Rory’s travails in Augusta would be viewed in retrospect as a minor glitch on his road to greatness— an aberration rather than a tendency. (Tiger’s weekend crumbles during this year’s majors, however, represent a trend.) Now […]
PGA Championship
The PGA Championship’s Elimination of Bunkers –What’s Next?
The PGA’s decision to treat all those deep sandy pits that look exactly like bunkers at Kiawah’s Ocean Course during the PGA Championship this week as “sandy areas through the green” raises some interesting questions. The whole notion of “waste areas” has a provocative provenance. According to Forrest Richardson, a golf course architect based in […]