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May 19, 2014
The Back 9- Edition 6
1. The decision by the USGA to host both the Men’s and Women’s US Opens at Pinehurst in back to back weeks this June is fraught with the possibility of disaster. The men play in the first week which is no cause for concern. It is the women that may be playing in some very […]
May 12, 2014
“I Stopped Thinking”
The first two days of the Players Championship were dominated by two of the game’s twenty somethings. A resurgent Martin Kaymer tied the course record with a flawless opening round of 9-under par, 63. He followed that up with a 69 to have a one shot lead over Jordan Spieth who played his first two […]
April 29, 2014
Sweet 17
Lydia Ko turned 17 over the weekend. She also won her 3rd LPGA Tour event at the Swinging Skirts Classic event at Lake Merced GC, in San Francisco. This is actually her 7th professional win (the others were one each on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour and two on the […]
April 28, 2014
David Newman
On Apr.24, one of our amazing students recorded one of the rarest accomplishments in golf. He shot his age. 71 years young, David Newman has been a low handicapper for a large part of his life but has continued to practice and work hard on his game (he is coached by one of Bird Golf’s […]
April 21, 2014
Heading In The Right Direction
This weekend, two of the game’s marquee players ended winless droughts. Former World #1, Lee Westwood, cruised to a seven shot victory at the Maybank Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur to win his first European Tour event in over two years. After being delayed by weather concerns in the middle of the final round, Westwood […]
April 14, 2014
Elementary, My Dear Watson
It is a common theory that Golf needs its’ superstars to be in contention to be a viable, visible and commercially successful mainstream sport. While that may be true of everyday PGA Tour events, there is some hallowed ground in Augusta, Georgia, that is much more about the venue, than the player. The 2014 Masters […]
April 7, 2014
A Lexi To Remember
Youth is served. Golf will age a player beyond their years and give players’ an age of experience before their time. We have been riveted by the ascendancy and then the struggles of Michelle Wie since she burst onto the world golf scene 12 years ago. She is now a grizzled veteran, who at the […]
March 31, 2014
World Golf Hall of Fame
On March 23, 2014, the World Golf Hall of Fame introduced new criteria for election into Golf’s most hallowed Hall. Those changes are as follows: The new process will include 4 categories under which an individual may be considered for Induction: Male and Female Competitor Categories and the Veterans and Lifetime Achievement Categories. At the […]
March 16, 2014
The Front 9-Edition 6
1. The season’s first Major Championship, the LPGA Tour’s Kraft Nabisco Championship in Palm Desert, will be the last one for title sponsor, Kraft Nabisco. LPGA commissioner Mike Whan insists that the iconic event will remain at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course, regardless of who the new sponsor will be. Nabisco has been the […]
March 10, 2014
Doral Get’s It’s Montser Back
When Donald Trump bought Doral and hired Gil Hanse to re-design the fabled Blue Monster, it was with instructions to make the course a Major contender (see: US Open). Golf parlance for make it extremely difficult. The Donald got his wish. After Friday’s second round, 113 balls were hit into the water and a paltry […]
March 3, 2014
The Road Back To #1
2013 was by all accounts a watershed year for Rory McIlroy. The then 23 year old superstar changed both the clubs he was playing and the ball he used. For the world’s best players these are drastic deviations and can take quite a long time for them to be comfortable with. Variations of those changes […]
February 24, 2014
A New Day
The final four players in the WGC-Accenture World Matchplay Championships today in Tucson were three parts young stars in the game and one quarter a South African 4-time Major Champion who may be entering the sunset of his brilliant career. The South African of course, is Hall of Famer, Ernie Els. After his victory in […]
