Golf Blog

Pure Insurance Championship impacting First tee

Whenever I get the chance to raise money for First Tee, I get pretty excited. When that opportunity requires me to spend a week at Pebble Beach, I get even more excited. So when I was asked to be the social media host for the Pure Insurance Championship Impacting First Tee, I was approaching record high levels of enthusiasm. I ran some quick math on the exhilaration ratios and came up with a number of 124.5 on a 50 point scale. As far as made up math goes, even Bryson DeChambeau would agree that these are wildly impressive numbers.

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The Renovation at Baltusrol

Even though they never really left us, the great golf courses of the golden age are coming back in a hurry. One by one, today’s architects are restoring America’s classic courses to the specifications of their former glory. I had the chance to sit down with one of the men leading that charge, Mr Gil Hanse. If there is anybody hotter right now, I don’t know who it is.

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Bonus Big Cedar!

With a busy travel schedule, it is extremely rare that I visit a destination twice in a single year. A double visit requires special circumstances and a strong magnetic golf force to lure me back in. In 2021, I was powerless over the draw of Big Cedar. Perhaps it was the 19th hole at Payne’s Valley or maybe it was the near ace at Ozarks National back in April. One thing was for certain, I was happy to be back in Missouri.

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