January 03, 2011

Stricker Nabs GWAA Award For Most Likely To Tolerate An Ink-Stained Wretch; Jackie Burke Lined Up To Headline And Save Annual Awards Dinner

January 03, 2011/ Geoff Shackelford

Let's hope the legendary Burke is himself at the GWAA awards dinner. Should offset that much anticipated Bernard Langer speech for Champions player of the year.

January 03, 2011

Taylor Made's Dustin Johnson Ad...

January 03, 2011/ Geoff Shackelford

I'm not exactly a connoisseur of golf equipment company ads and I certainly am not counting the seconds until the January 4 Hot List release or salivating over the new Taylor Made white driver splashed on golf.com's homepage all day--finally a club designed to remind me of all my worst sky jobs and other embarrassing misshits--but you have to admire the simplicity of their latest ad featuring Dustin Johnson. Thanks to reader Sean for the link:

January 03, 2011

Len Shapiro Says Farewell To The Washington Post

January 03, 2011/ Geoff Shackelford

41 years and 7400 (!) bylines later...here's his farewell column which only touches briefly on his golf work (a Tiger mention!). I do believe/hope he'll continue to appear in Global Golf Post and points elsewhere, especially with the Open returning to Congressional this year.

December 21, 2010

NORAD Returns To Defcon 1 After Twitter-Driven Tiger Woods Injury Scare

December 21, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

And it all started on Twitter and ended with Tiger merely getting a cortisone shot from someone other than Dr. Spaceman. I'm not going to address the Twitter ethics debate that erupted amongst bored golf writers, but let's just say, Shipnuck resorted to pulling Marshall McLuhan out from behind a movie theater cardboard cutout.

November 16, 2010

XM/Sirius Ending PGA Tour Radio Deal?

November 16, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Steve Elling offers up several items of note in his Up and Down column but this one is the most depressing about the solid PGA Tour Radio Network and rumor that XM/Sirius likely will not be renewing:

November 01, 2010

"Formerly The Slow-Playing Crane"

November 01, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Good catch by John Strege from an entertaining roundup of the weekend's golf news:

October 25, 2010

SI/golf.com Breathlessly Rushes To AK's Defense... For Now! ****

October 25, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

First there was Alan Shipnuck's story containing a few flimsy denials from Anthony Kim about his Vegas fun and then this from the golf.com roundtable:

October 14, 2010

RIP Reid Hanley

October 14, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Here's the obituary for the longtime Chicago Tribune golf writer who passed away Thursday morning.

Judging by the number of readers who passed along the link he developed an avid following in one tough sports town!

October 12, 2010

SI Golf Group's 40 Under 40

October 12, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

I'm shocked, shocked that as the purveyor of this website the SI Golf Group did not deem me part of the "up-and-coming generation of influencers, trendsetters and newsmakers, an eclectic mix of talent worth watching today and for many years to come."

September 19, 2010

"People are mean, and architects are an easy target. I know Rees. Rees is a friend of mine."

September 19, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

I always enjoy SI/golf.com's Confidential but this week's left me feeling like it's now becoming another vehicle to defend the established thought, which, if there were ever going to be a Confidential killer, that would be it.

August 19, 2010

"I chuckle at the thought of Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson or Bobby Jones having a swing coach. They would have killed him!"

August 19, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Dan Jenkins sits down for a most enjoyable Q&A with Stephanie Wei for the WSJ online.

August 12, 2010

Quite Possibly The Worst Tiger Column I've Ever Read

August 12, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

If you want to read a laugh-out-loud funny Tiger column, do not miss George Vecsey's declaration of Tiger's downfall as the worst anyone has ever seen. Two top-5s in majors this year--a career for some--and one really bad tournament, and the guy might as well just pack it in.

August 10, 2010

What A News Day...

August 10, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Wouldn't it figure that one of the most hectic news days of the golf year arrives as many of my colleagues are taking that scenic 90 minute shuttle back to Milwaukee after fending off mosquitoes all day (assuming you left the tent, which sounds like a bad idea based on these Hunter Mahan comments). But just think lads and ladies, in 2015 you'll have Wi-Fi on the bus and ipads to watch movies, read books or just do something other than reading the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel cover-to-cover...twice.

August 10, 2010

“He’s back playing regularly now, so we have mutually agreed to publish his bylined pieces on a monthly basis.”

August 10, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Darren Rovell reports (and I could have to had I opened my new issue yesterday) that Tiger is back in the pages of Golf Digest.

May 15, 2010

"It seems it's payback time for the golf media."

May 15, 2010/ Geoff Shackelford

Greg Connors analyzes the media's relationship with Tiger since his return and comes away feeling that the gloves are off. Warning, yours truly is quoted.