Monday
Aug042008
Tuesday PGA Championship Clippings: Kenny's Last Shot
Glory's Last Hope, puhllleaze...this is Kenny's (First and) Last Shot at a major.
Steve Elling reminds us that Kenny Perry is actually making his major debut this week in one of his final tune-up's for the Wyndham Championship.
Bob Harig looks at T.C. Chen's Oakland Hills double-hit and talks to Andy North about how he was handed a second U.S. Open as a result.
It was at the Senior British Open two weeks ago at Royal Troon where he bumped into Chen again. North was working the telecast and Chen was playing in his first Champions Tour event, although he missed the cut.
So will the stars of that fateful final round in 1985 meet again in competition? Chen, who has a home in California, would appear to hope so, as he plans to attend the Champions Tour's qualifying school this fall.At PGA.com they offer first and second round tee times in not particularly user-friendly PDF form.
Vartan Kupelian offers the hometown preview for the Detroit News.
Doug Ferguson reminds us that the Europeans have fond memories of Hal Sutton's hatwear the Phil and Tiger pairing disaster the 2004 Ryder Cup rout.
Ferguson also reports that national club pro champ Scott Hebert is a Michigan native playing Oakland Hills for the first time.
Thomas Bonk previews the PGA and offers a long list of interesting golf world notes as well as the weekend ratings recap. Yikes:
Saturday's third round of the WGC Bridgestone Invitational had a 1.5 overnight rating for CBS and Sunday's fourth round had a 2.1. The women fared worse on ABC, with a 0.7 on Saturday and a 0.6 on Sunday at the Ricoh Women's British Open.Sean Martin reminds us what fun Woody Austin was last year.
Adam Schupak reports on the auto industry gradually pulling back its investment in golf tournaments and in Detroit area clubs.
Rich Lerner shares some Oakland Hills horror stories.
Carloz Monarrez pens an obituary for the 16th hole willows and talks to Ron Whitten and Brad Klein about the infamous trees and their significance (or lack of).
Golf World's course map with text by Brett Avery, including an interesting breakdown of the epic 1996 U.S. Open overnight bunker salvation project, can be opened here
PGA.com breaks down the changes to each hole and also offers a hole-by-hole tour with Director of Golf Pat Croswell. Many of the photos reminded me what an exquisite property this is for golf and how...oh I won't say it. It's only Tuesday.
Monday, August 4, 2008 at 08:26 PM
Reader Comments (6)
It's a great club, and many of the holes remain extraordinary. I just wish it was more Donald Ross circa 1925 and less RTJ. I know Ross had plans to change it and that was the basis of RTJ's redo, but it's in my top 5 of courses I wish I could play in their original form.
Jim