Thursday Shorts
Thursday, July 7, 2005 at 09:34 AM David Lloyd writes an outstanding online column for Golfweek.com about the distance issue. He makes several valid points about the added cost of bigger/longer courses inspired by a round played on the world's longest course.
Here's a story on the sad news that we won't get to see Royal Melbourne and the Heineken Classic next year. The Nick O'Hern-Craig Parry-Jarrod Lyle dominated finale remains one of the best events this year. While your down under, check out Rob Vanderzalm on Peter Thomson's new book and his thoughts on changing courses.
John Huggan in The Guardian (!?) on the conflicting views of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson regarding Old Course changes. Alan Shipnuck gets to play the Old Course reversed (SI subscriber # required). Joe Bramley of Reuters reviews Tiger's performance in 2000 at St. Andrews. And if you haven't seen it yet, Ron Whitten has an excellent story on the evolution of the Old Course. I'd link it if it were up on GolfDigest.com, but now that their site is basically content free and a functional disaster, I'd suggest buying the magazine if you don't subscribe (hey, maybe this is why they've made the website a mess!).
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