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
Yours truly appears on segments 3 and 4 Sirius Radio's Golfchix radio show with Susan Hunt and Linda Giaciolli (Amy Alcott was off this week).
You can listen to the show by heading here and hitting the "This Week's Show" link on the left. The Golf Channel's Rich Lerner appears in the first two segments.
A year ago today I officially switched this site over to Squarespace with a post about some silly press conference question asked of Phil Mickelson. (Some things never change.)
Squarespace is a service specializing in blog-friendly hosting that I highly recommend if you are looking to blog or need basic web services.
1,000,000 hits later, multiple changes in the design, and plenty of rants (and hopefully laughs) later, here we are.
Thanks for continuing to check in and for your comments.
Golfdom's Larry Aylward interviews yours truly about Medinah and the PGA.
Gabcast! PGA Championship Preview #1
SI has posted the text to the Chicago Dream 18 that I compiled with the help of a great panel. It's only available to subscribers and Gil Hanse's map is not up, but I'll get it scanned in the next few days and post it.
But you can check out the results of an informal survey filled out by the panel on the best of Chicago golf. It's a web-exclusive deal.
Now posted is my Golfdom feature on blogging and my July column on potential impact of the Muirfield Village bunker furrowing on the golf maintenance world. The column includes this plea:
"The game and expected conditions have simply gotten too expensive for the average facility to sustain, and bunker maintenance is a very expensive part of most budgets," Coldiron said. "Golfers expect what they see on TV tourneys on a daily basis."
Working with the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America staff and superintendents Kerry Satterwhite and Sandy Queen, Coldiron is attempting to develop a public golf forum at the Golf Industry Show next year that deals with ways to help public course superintendents who are bearing the brunt of a struggling game.
"Although Muirfield and the tour are doing this furrowing for different reasons, the return of bunker maintenance to a more reasonable level will help make the game more affordable in the long run," Coldiron says.
The group wants to address how the pressures of reduced revenue and increased cost have put undue pressure on many superintendents and their operations. But instead of beating a dead horse, Coldiron and friends want to offer insights, ideas and hopefully support to the unique situation faced by many public golf operations.
He would like your advice on topics and speakers who can lend ideas to struggling facilities. E-mail him at turfman@one.net
I devote my latest Golfobserver.com column to the debate over the cops and in-course O.B. at Hoylake, and the lack of exciting finishing holes in the Open rota.
(click on image to enlarge)SI has given me the okay to reproduce the Golf Plus "Dream 18s" for your limited viewing pleasure here.
(Limited, because my copying and scanning and resizing skills aren't very good).
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And trust me when I say that Gil Hanse's maps look better in print, but you get the idea here with his H.S. Colt style drawing.
For SI subscribers, the full text is available online.
The latest Golfdom podcast conversation between yours truly and editor Larry Aylward is now posted for your listening pleasure.
Since The Captain has gone out of print, I have noticed that it pops up on ebay or abebooks.com from time to time. So for those of you who have emailed in search a copy, there is a shrink-wrapped new Sleeping Bear Press edition currently on ebay.
Yours truly appeared on Travel Golf's podcast with Dave Berner to talk about the old architects and plug Lines of Charm in the process. Here's a breakdown of other topics on the show.
My latest Golfobserver.com column is now posted.
The first ever Golfdom podcast is now available for listening. Editor Larry Aylward chat with yours truly about Winged Foot. Disregard the talk about concerns about the fairways getting too fast for the widths, as this was recorded before the recent downpours! Just click on the small play button, it's only 9 minutes or so. And if God forbid you want to listen to this on an ipod, go to you itunes podcast page, click advance and open Subscribe to Podcast, then paste this link: http://www.gabcast.com/casts/1063/rss/rss.xml
U.S. Open #1
My latest Golfobserver.com column on the strange (but exciting) year in college golf, is now posted.
My latest Golfdom column on minimalism in architecture is now posted.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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