Category: Feature Articles

By Herschel Caldwell There is an old adage in sports that says: “There is no room on the score card for descriptions.” It only matters that you scored higher in most sports or lower in golf to win. In golf it only counts if you win and then your name goes in the record books. Second place gets you a nice check, pat on the back and they say thanks for coming. Bubba Watson made four birdies when he needed them to tie the lead at this year’s Masters and a masterful  (excuse the pun) recovery shot on the second… Read More »

Kraft Nabisco Championship Mission Hills Country Club Rancho Mirage, Calif.   The 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship ended in dramatic fashion with Sun Young Yoo beating out I.K. Kim in a one-hole playoff for her second career victory and first major championship. After I.K. Kim missed a one-foot par putt on the 18th hole to force a two-player playoff, Yoo hit her approach shot to 20-feet on the first playoff hole and sank the birdie putt to clinch what seemed to be an improbable victory at the season’s first major championship. Yoo shot a final-round 69 to put herself in position… Read More »

By Rhonda Glenn   Adrian Stills, Ann Gregory and Tom Woodard were inducted into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame in Tampa, Fla., on March 10. Pictured from left to right are Stills, JoAnn Gregory Overstreet (daughter of the late Ann Gregory) and Woodard. (Courtesy EyeSeeImages and National Black Golf Hall of Fame).   Tampa, Fla. – Two former PGA Tour players and the runner-up in a USGA national championship who helped break segregation barriers were inducted Saturday into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame. Adrian Stills of Pensacola, Fla., Tom Woodard of Littleton, Colo., and the late Ann Gregory… Read More »

By Cameron Morfit, Senior Writer, Golf Magazine Tiger Woods will face Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano on Wednesday. There are many very good days, but only a handful of truly great days to watch golf. The last day of a close Ryder Cup is a great day, as is the last day of a tight U.S. Open. A sun-splashed Masters can be blessed with several very good days, and usually boasts a great one or two.

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.