There are at least fifteen courses that have hosted the PGA Championship that are open to the public.  Here is my list of the ten best. 10.          Shawnee Inn & Resort Golf Course, Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA,  This flat riverbed layout is well-bunkered in the Tillinghast style and has 24 of its 27 holes situated on an island on the Delaware River. Hosted the PGA Championship in: 1938 Architect: A.W. Tillinghast Green ... Read more

We’ve been here before: Tiger Woods returns after an enforced absence from the Tour. It started at the 2008 U.S. Open, which he entered having not played since the Masters two months earlier due to knee problems that would require surgery. He won that one, but it’s been downhill from there. Next came the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February of 2009, following an eight-month ... Read more

Let’s credit Adam Scott with the best decision of the year. No, I don’t mean asking Steve Williams to caddie for him when Tiger Woods was out with an injury. The really good decision was to switch to the long putter. Over the course of 2009-10, Scott was the second worst putter on Tour, behind only Billy Mayfair. The Tour’s strokes gained-putting stat tells us ... Read more

The “Bubba Show” rolled into the TPC at River Highlands this week as Bubba Watson charmed the press at Media Day for The Travelers Championship (June 20-26), for which he is defending champion. The big-swinging lefty’s first win came at the Cromwell, Ct. course last summer and it apparently inspired him to play some of the best golf anyone has played on the PGA Tour since. ... Read more

If CBS is already running promos for the Masters, it’s time to line up some beers for the majors. So we’ve neatly set aside 20 days here, separated into five groups of four days when the pros go at it hammer and tongs, with nerves of steel or spaghetti, while we in the audience munch on a steady diet of fingernails. Who couldn’t use a ... Read more

A couple weeks ago I went to try a new local deli. I ordered the Grand Italian Hero, expecting a mouth-watering concoction of meats and cheeses and bread to delight the senses. Instead I got over-ripe salami, air-dried provolone, pasty mustard and limp lettuce on a roll so stale it hurt my teeth. We are talking about serious disappointment here. Last week the PGA of America served ... Read more

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of playing the Long Island Amateur Championship at the famous Inwood Country Club. I say famous, because as most people who have some sense of golf history are aware, Inwood was the site of the 1923 U.S. Open Championship which was won by Bobby Jones. The tournament was highlighted by Jones famous 2 iron shot over the water ... Read more