When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
In a world where you have clubs that would kill to host a major, then there's Colorado Golf Club.
It's kind of an amazing thing to read Anthony Cotton's story on Colorado Golf Club's shaky status and realize that the PGA of America sees it as a potential host site for future majors and yet, the place seems to have a corporate ownership situation that may doom the course.
...but is it me, or does it sound like it's killing them to pay a compliment to this week's Senior PGA host site?
"It's a good test," said Watson, who also designs courses. "It has great variety to it. There's plenty of room (in landing areas), and yet there's some toughness that you have to worry about. . . . That's the way golf should be played."
After playing Colorado Golf Club for the first time, Tom Kite said it's worthy of hosting a major championship.
"The golf course is going to stand up very well to the players. It's very difficult," Kite said. "There's a lot to know. We're going to have to kind of fly by the seat of our pants to learn the golf course as we go."
With the thin air, and depending on the wind and slope of the terrain, a shot that normally would require 180 yards might be 220 or 130, said Bernhard Langer, who already has won twice on the 2010 Champions Tour.
"It's kind of crazy," he said, "and then you have to figure how much the ball is going to run when it hits. But it's a great golf course, great layout, beautiful scenery. And some interesting design work."
With play like this, who needs fill-in gigs at CBS or Masters online? Right? Please?
Bill Fields returns to his old beat on the Champions Tour to figure out why things are on an upswing while the other tours are scratching and clawing to remain relevant.
It's good to see that the Champions Tour PAC and Policy Board feel their operation is in such good shape that it can shoot down a potentially massive feel-good story by denying Ken Green a major medical extension. I sat in on an enjoyable media Q&A with Tom Watson today in advance of Newport Beach's Toshiba Classic.
A couple of highlights:
First Tee grad Alex Phillips is filing PGATour.com diary items from the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, and it was fun to read that her caddy for the week is none other than Hall of Famer Patty Sheehan.
Did anyone else think that was a white ground under repair line around the telephone poles at Crooked Stick's 9th hole for the U.S. Senior Open?
I'm told it's actually the 6th hole, it's one of Pete Dye's random tributes to Ma Bell and is in fact marked Ground Under Repair.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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