Golf Professionals
No-Logo Boot Camp
Sponsors who pay touring professionals $200,000 to more than $1,000,000 a year are annoyed and angry. Ted Wolfe, Executive Director for the trade group Show My Logo, tells Golf Lampoon that “our members are angry that pro golfers are ... Read more
Whan On Whining
LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan was named this past week to replace Mike Davis as the USGA’s CEO. Whan has hit the ground running as evidenced in the press release below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Michael Whan, in one of his ... Read more
ON The Clock
Phil Mickelson has denounced the USGA’s CEO Mike Whan’s slow-play initiative as “yet another dick move.” Last week Whan announced how the USGA will deal with pokey players at next month’s US Open at the Los Angeles Country Club: ... Read more
Craig Stadler’s 1987 Rule Violation
The 1987 Shearson Lehman Brothers Andy Williams Open … which became the Shearson Lehman Hutton Andy Williams Open … which became the Shearson Lehman Hutton Open … which became the Shearson Lehman Brothers Open … which became the Buick ... Read more
Tommy Fleetwood And Jackasses
Last Sunday’s final round of the Honda Classic saw Tommy Fleetwood hit his approach shot into the water on the par-5 18th hole. Was the errant shot caused by a fan yelling “Get in the hole!” during Fleetwood’s backswing? ... Read more
Rory McIlroy’s Sportswashing
As a wee lad, Rory McIlroy delighted audiences with his ability to chip golf balls into a washing machine. And at the 2019 Open Championship, Rory wore a Nike golf shirt adorned with a washing machine logo as shown ... Read more
USGA Spies on Rory McIlroy
Yesterday’s second round of The Northern Trust saw Rory McIlroy receive a two-shot penalty for touching what he thought was a loose impediment in a bunker. The penalty was later rescinded and McIlroy’s reputation for impeccable honesty was restored. ... Read more
Brooks Koepka: AWOL From Wyndham
Brooks Koepka, by virtue of his win last week at the WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, won the “Wyndham Rewards Top 10” First Prize of $2 million. Koepka is not competing in the Wyndham Championship which began ... Read more
Ben Hogan’s Masters’ Roomies
The 2018 Open Championship saw Kevin Kisner, Zach Johnson, Justin Thomas, Jason Dufner, Jordan Spieth, Jimmy Walker, and Rickie Fowler sharing a house together near Carnoustie, Scotland. Critics carped that in “the old days,” hardened competitors would have never ... Read more
Michelle Wie’s Wee One
Congratulations to Michelle Wie and Jonnie West! They’re expecting a baby girl this summer and Nike, Wie’s longtime sponsor, has stepped up to “brand the ka-ka out of this kid.” Thus declared Larry Muscatel, Nike’s VP of Embryonic Affairs. ... Read more
