TULSA – The game has changed, but Tiger Woods’ strategy has not. His body and his personality have, but his strategy has not. Woods would’ve 2-ironed his way around Southern Hills on Thursday at the PGA Championship with two perfect legs, and he 2-ironed his way around Southern Hills on Thursday with two surgically rebuilt … Read more
If I have an area of professional expertise, one might say it’s around the concept of fallibility. Much of this is rooted in first-hand experience, but it’s expanded to a broad array of ways people screw up — dumb decisions, physical gaffes, moments of weakness at the worst possible times. The menu is quite long, … Read more
TULSA – Tuesday serves as a car wash day at the PGA Championship, with player after player paraded through the interview area at Southern Hills. Most discussions centered on the tournament and the course, the presence of a certain 15-time major winner and the absence of a defending champ. But sometimes the interview or interviewee … Read more
Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we want to formally extend an invitation to Phil Mickelson. Phil, you are welcome to come on our annual buddies golf trip and compete in the 2022 HGGA Championship. The purse — and gambling stakes — won’t be what you’re used to, but as the HGGA’s director … Read more
In the final moments of his life, what were the last thoughts of Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger as he died in the macabre way of so many of his victims? Early on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, a mere four hours after he’d arrived on a transfer to the U.S. Hazelton Penitentiary … Read more
Karl Kimball is currently the head professional at Hillandale Golf Course in Durham, NC, but in 1991 he was on the PGA Tour and playing in the Greater Greensboro Open at Forest Oaks Country Club. One of his playing partners during the second round of that tournament was Sean Murphy, a young player out of … Read more
For a man who will stare down history next week, the past two days in Texas have served as an auspicious showing for Jordan Spieth. Spieth, who would become just the sixth player in the modern era to complete his Grand Slam career with a win at the PGA Championship, turned in a 66 on … Read more
Jimmy Dunne calls his latest opportunity — the newly named chairman of the board at stat-tracking golf technology company Arccos — the perfect mix of his profession and his passion. The renowned finance executive’s love of golf has taken him to every place in the game that matters. Whether it was rising from the caddy … Read more
Imagine, if you will, the year is 1970. Dig out those long-forgotten hip-hugging bell-bottom pants and midi-skirts. And settle down to watch the 52nd PGA Championship, which is headed to Southern Hills for the first time in the club’s history. And which is why we are flicking through the official tournament program, all 210 pages … Read more
Sergio Garcia can’t wait to leave the PGA Tour. He made that unmistakably clear last Thursday after an official rules at the Wells Fargo Championship told him — incorrectly, it turns out — that he’d taken more than three minutes to find his ball and thus would be penalized. Garcia has long been linked with … Read more
