Author: Herschel Caldwell

Vicki Nakashima, Public Relations Chair Western States Golf Association (503) 516-3505 or e-mail: nakashimav@mac.com Website: www.westernstatesgolf.com   A talented field of women players at the WSGA 2011 Golf Championship-photo by WSGA  Denver, CO – June 10, 2011 – The oldest, largest and most diverse golf association in the Western U.S. will bring their annual championship tournament to Broomfield, CO from June 21-25, 2011. Western States Golf Association was founded in 1954 and represents over 30 organized golf clubs, with approximately 1300 members located in six states.

By Cameron Morfit, Senior Writer, Golf Magazine KJ Choi-Photo by Robert Beck, SI PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — All week, the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass looked like it might come down to the handful of highly ranked players who were in position to enhance their careers. As it turned out, the tournament came down to 44-year-old, 75th-ranked, slightly arthritic David Toms trying to play 31 disaster-free holes in one day with the Tank, 34th-ranked Korean K.J. Choi, right on his heels.

 Leading Orthopedic Surgeons Available to Comment Tiger Woods’ withdrew from The  Players Championship due to his injured left knee. The well-known golfer has had numerous knee injuries over the years which has limited his play in tournament golf. The issue now being debated is whether or not these injuries will prevent Woods from breaking Jack Nicklaus’ major golf tournament record. OrthopedicSurgeons, Dr. Ronald Grelsamer and Dr. Alexis Colvin, from the Department of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai are available to speak on the complications of the injury.

By Herschel V. Caldwell The mystical character in the movie “Bagger Vance” declared the game of golf “unwinnable.” “You can never win, you can only play” the game of golf. The great players of yesteryear and today will tell you that they may come out winning an event, not because they beat the course, but because they hit the ball fewer times than their fellow competitors.

Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. – Jhonattan Vegas’ path to the PGA Tour started in the remote reaches of Venezuela, where the toddler imitated his father’s golf swing with sticks and stones while growing up in an oil-drilling camp.

FORMER BOB HOPE CLASSIC CHAMPIONS WEIR, DUVAL, PERRY, TRAHAN AND PEREZ COMMIT TO 2011 CLASSIC FIELD      Classic’s early field now includes 10 of the past 11 Bob Hope Classic champions, 10 PGA TOUR champions from 2010, and four 2010 Ryder Cup players     LA QUINTA, Calif. – 2003 Bob Hope Classic and Masters champion Mike Weir, former World No. 1 and 1999 Classic champion David Duval, author of the greatest round in Bob Hope Classic history with his final-round 59 in 1999, 1995 Classic champion and 2009 Masters runner-up Kenny Perry, 2008 Classic champion D.J. Trahan and 2009 Classic champion Pat… Read More »

How many more negative articles can be written about past-told events that came to light more than a year ago?  Is the nation’s appetite for negative-based journalism so prevalent that not one editor of any news organization will stand up and say, “THE TIGER WOODS’ SCANDAL?? THAT’S ENOUGH ALREADY!!

A quarter-century later, Bramlett breaks down barrier By Brian Wacker  |  PGATOUR.com WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — More than a decade after Tiger Woods became the first African American to win the Masters, another black golfer with mixed race parents who learned the game by emulating the swing of his father in a mirror and later matriculated at Stanford University cut his own little slice of history. Monday, Joseph Bramlett became the first African American in 25 years to successfully advance through the final stage of q-school to earn a PGA TOUR card for 2011. He also becomes the first African… Read More »