Commentary

Can Watson win the Open?

Hopefully one day we’ll all look back on July 19, 2009 as the day we all witnessed the ghosts of Old Tom Morris and Bruce Edwards guide Tom Watson around the famed links of Turnberry’s Ailsa course to his sixth British Open Championship. How does that saying go? “The golf ball doesn’t know how old you are.”

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Commentary

A Look Back At Club Technology

New clubs promising more distance, better accuracy and better feel seem to be released every 6 months, and the USGA is scrambling to keep a muzzle on any technology that might make the game too “easy” to play. Ironic then that for the last 100 years, despite all the improvements in golf club technology, balls that go way further, courses that are playing faster and greens that roll truer, that the average golfer still shoots around 100. As David Feherty once said: “Maybe we’re all supposed to stink at this. It’s our punishment for playing this insane game.”

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