The fate of golf would seem to lie in the hands of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and the United States Golf Association. Can we expect that they will protect and reverence the spirit of golf?
MAX BEHR
Gary Player is still tinkering with this swing and some Rory McIlroy-inspired posture looks pretty strong.
Jack Nicklaus tests a putter and some sock style that works at certain clubs in Australia and Bermuda.
And then there's Greg Norman.
Ted Potter Jr. not only beat the world’s best player, a former No. 1 and a Hall of Famer. Even better, this was during a round that bogged down badly at the end, providing more time to take in the views and terrible places his golf ball could go.
Jason Day took an interesting path to par at Pebble Beach’s 18th. His emotional post-round interview helped make up for an oddly dull final round given the many interesting contenders.
Nick Faldo’s ace at the 7th, Nantz National Golf Links, has gone viral. As it should!
Kevin Streelman and Larry Fitzgerald won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at -29. Fitzgerald certainly took advantage of his 13 handicap in the grand tradition of other former winners.
Bryson DeChambeau posted a stellar shot of Cypress Point's 15th.
Larry The Cable Guy and Colt Ford broke in the silly new flower beds added to Pebble Beach's 8th.
The bunkers are Lake Karrinyup Country Club, host of this week’s European Tour event, look sensational. Renovation work by OCCM Design.
The 2018 Ryder Cup venue looks so peaceful with snow. Things won’t be so calm in September.
Jim Nantz broadcasts himself playing his backyard 7th hole at Pebble Beach.
Finally, remember that lakes are silty.
Luke Donald played the 16th at Cypress Point. Some of his peers heckled him in the comment section.
Ben Hogan tees off on Pebble Beach’s 18th during the Crosby. Guess he wasn’t bothered by people getting too close or standing in the landing area.
Floral prints apparently are the new...stripes? There's a sense they'll be big in the golf shirt world in 2018. Consider yourself more than adequately warned.
Mathias Schjoelberg shows off the strongest hands in golf again, and this time holes out.
We’re going to see plenty of daytime Pebble Beach this week given the stunning weather, so I’m glad the PGA Tour posted a DJ Piehowski nighttime image from 2016 showing the 7th green.
Driving range bags at Bear's Club note your major wins and if you don’t have a Grand Slam trophy? You still get our name, your ball preference and your place next to the big winners.
Carnoustie got a nice dusting of snow. Hopefully no dustings of fertilizers for this year’s hosting of The Open Championship.
On February 6, 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon with a specially made club that is on display at the USGA Museum. Look at the thought that went into this contraption!
February 6th was also James Braid’s birthday…in 1870. Second from the right. Five time Open Championship winner.
There should be extra stiff fines for any European Tour player who takes out his rage on this week’s ISPS Handa tee markers.
The weather forecast is sublime for this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Apologies to those hoping America’s elite got rained on all week.
For reasons unclear, there is a sizable gold-brick of a flower bed off the 8th tee at Pebble Beach. Maybe it’s a placeholder for the restoration of Chandler Egan’s imitation sand dunes? Natural, it does not look.
Lee Westwood photographed one of the world’s most venomous snakes, a King Brown, when it appeared on the Lake Karrinyup CC range where he’s getting ready for the European Tour’s ISPS Hander World Super 6 in Perth.
For those still suffering a Super Bowl hangover, The Onion addresses the difficult conversation many football fathers are having with their sons...about what it means to control the ball long enough to be deemed a runner.
Matt Kuchar almost brought the house down with a Waste Management Open ace at 16 Sunday.
Nick Price sitting in his first USGA Annual Meeting as a member of the Executive Committee with a grin that can only say, "what have I gotten myself into?" I view this as legitimate punishment for skipping the last two World Golf Hall of Fame ceremonies.
A side view of Pebble Beach's 17th after Chandler Egan and Robert Hunter's big, and still-largely-uncredited-during-AT&T-week renovation. The work took place prior to the 1929 U.S. Amateur and introduced strategy and naturalness to the course.
Who says dogs can't see what's on TV?
Clever sign from a cool kid on Waste Management Open Wednesday where most of the antics were not embed worthy.
A Starbucks barista did his or her best to keep Rory McIlroy humble.
Ru Macdonald with some recent drone shots of the new 7th at Royal Dornoch under construction, slated for play in 2021.
Peninsula’s South Course renovation by Ogilvy-Clayton-Cocking-Mead looks sensational in this Gary Lisbon image.
Eddie Gomez will make you feel better whatever excessive money and space you’ve devoted to collecting with his putter collection.
Sometimes golf-photographer Donald Miralle got up so we didn’t have to and captured a stunning “Superman Blue Collared Blood Red Strawberry Banana Moon.”
One of the greats in the game is back to captain the Solheim Cup again.
Haotong Li, the first Chinese golfer in the world top 50 following his win last weekend in Dubai, has been added to the Genesis Open field at Riviera on a sponsor’s invitation.
Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner hosted some pretty great baseball players and The Great One for his annual charity event at Sherwood.
Lexi showing off.
Joshua Kelly with a tougher-than-it-looks bunker hole out.
A glorious Miralle of Tiger at Torrey.
A fish eye view of Woods teeing off the first.
Some San Diego Open history with Joe Louis.
Paul Dunne faced the ultimate plugged-in-the-face lie.
And Little Linksters awards for great swings might inspire better swing action.
A nice slow mo side view of Tiger starting his practice round Tuesday at Torrey Pines. Remember, it was 7:20ish and 45 degree, ish.
Joaquim Niemann will be delaying his pro debut for good reason after winning the Latin America Amateur Championship and multiple perks, including a Masters invitation.
Check out 18 years then and now at Emirates Golf Club, host to this week's Dubai Desert Classic. Make sure to get to the second image via the right hand arrow.
Patrick Koenig with a shot of Hammock Beach and an other-worldly par-3.
I posted today's ho-hum sunset from the not-so-ho-hum cliffs of Torrey Pines.
Tommy Fleetwood picked up where he left off in 2017 by defending in Abu Dhabi. Love the passion in this image.
Sergio Garcia won the Singapore Open in the first asking with an all new bag of Callaways, including the Chrome Soft X and new Toulon putter.
The Euros are feeling better about their prospects at the Ryder Cup already, counting down the days after wins by Rahm, Fleetwood and Garcia to kick off the year.
Sugarloaf Social Club posted a fun hipsters treasure map to the PGA Show floor.
Jack Nicklaus turned 78 and the PGA Tour posted the best gallery of images capturing the birthday boy.
And I want to be 3 years old again.
Monday, February 12, 2018 at 10:01 PM