Mo'Golf, Author at BuffaloGolfer.com

Gone Too Soon: The Joy & Sadness of Mike Strantz (Part Two)

by Mo'Golf | Feb 23, 2014 | The Scrambler

Originally posted on 2/23/2011 at 1:28 am. Many of the philosophies espoused by MacKenzie serve as the bedrock fundamentals incorporated by Strantz. Where Strantz seems to earn his “maverick” label is through his flair for creating dramatic holes & courses unlike...

Gone Too Soon: The Joy & Sadness of Mike Strantz (Part One)

by Mo'Golf | Feb 23, 2014 | The Scrambler

Originally published on 2/23/2011 at 1:27 am. With the density of sad stories or horrible events that saturate our news coverage, it is easy to become desensitized to the grief that is reported. The “matter of fact” delivery of such stories lends itself to an...

Team USA Ryder Cup: Aged Hubris Is Pathetic

by Mo'Golf | Feb 11, 2014 | Mo' Golf

I grew up wanting to be Tom Watson. I knew that he won and he did so with a puckish, gap-toothed smile. Kind of a Huck Finn-type of thing. This was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Watson played on US Ryder Cup teams. In the 1990s, he was in his 50s and became...

A Flaw In The USGA’s US Open Plans

by Mo'Golf | Feb 9, 2014 | Mo' Golf

It was announced this week by the United States Golf Association that Pinehurst #2 will be set up to encourage the men and the women to hit similar clubs into greens. If you’ve been under a big, sound-proofed umbrella for five years, here’s some news: the...

May: Federation Championship

by Mo'Golf | Jan 28, 2014 | Mo' Golf

It’s pretty common for at least one of our golfers to advance out of Monsignor Martin play to the State Catholic Championships. The top 15 or so golfers move on to James Baird State Park near Poughkeepsie in May of each year and at least one of our guys usually...