Questioning Preparations for the US Open

While the ‘Grand Slam’ might be the ultimate goal at the start of the year for a few marquee names dreaming the impossible dream, even they would concede that winning a single Major any given year is likely to be as good as it gets (at least in the post-Tiger Woods era). With only four handed out each year, and given that any one of the assembled field is capable of winning following a good run of form, the odds are always against you, so it’s easy to see why players focus their…Read more …

Irrigation Irritation

The fairways of Wentworth were, as ever, lush and green for the duration of the BMW PGA Championship, but they weren’t as colourful as Ernie Els’ language on the Saturday evening. If you didn’t read about it, his tirade centred on the lack of water applied to greens, which, according to him, had made them unplayable in places. Poor Ernie has come in for a fair amount of stick since helping to redesign this Harry Colt classic and he’s clearly a little sensitive to criticism now.  There’s no doubt his lashing out was,…Read more …