by Mo'Golf | Jul 11, 2011 | Mo' Golf
The Buffalo Golfer triumvirate made the cross-state journey to New City, New York, to begin the 2011 Bethpage Binge. Although the focus of this year’s junket is to play the five crayons, err, courses at Bethpage state park, our brain trust desired also to...
by Mo'Golf | Jul 10, 2011 | Mo' Golf
July 9th, 2011 The First Niagara WNYPGA Junior Tour had close to forty players at Pine Acres CC in Pennsylvania thanks to host professional Kirk Stauffer. Kirk was not the only Stauffer that needs to be thanked today. His son Josh put on a show with some outstanding...
by Mo'Golf | Jul 10, 2011 | Mo' Golf
My colleague, Mr. Mouth That Roars, acknowledges our imminent departure for points east of western New York. Assuming that the weather holds and that our wallets and bodies remain intact, the Mouth, the Scrambler and I shall play eight rounds over the next six days....
by mouth | Jul 9, 2011 | The Mouth
In just eight hours, members of the BuffaloGolfer team will gather for a celebratory beer to kick off this summer’s golfing venture. Stay tuned to the blog, Twitter feed and Facebook account for tweets, updates and posts documenting our trip to Bethpage State...
by Mo'Golf | Jul 9, 2011 | Mo' Golf
July 8, 2011 Double Black Diamond at Holiday Valley, Friday July 8, 2011 – As the morning showers cleared the fun, laughs and excellent golf arrived. Nineteen Western New York Section PGA Professionals played in the 2011 Ellicottville Library Pro Am on Friday,...
by Mo'Golf | Jul 8, 2011 | Mo' Golf
July 7, 2011 Over halfway through the season, the First Niagara WNYPGA Junior Tour held an event at Peek N Peak Lower Course on July 7th. The boys 18 hole divisions played some excellent golf with three scores at par or better. Josh Stauffer and Scott Avery both...
by mouth | Jul 7, 2011 | The Mouth
If you have a few minutes today golf fans, check out Gary Van Sickle’s Midseason Awards column on www.cnnsi.com. It does a great job of summing up the first half of 2011 and disecting the best shots, wins, comments and music videos of the year. The BuffaloGolfer...
by mouth | Jul 6, 2011 | The Mouth
It always starts the same way. Someone will send me an e-mail about two or three weeks before the start of the PGA Tour season or the NFL season or college basketball season that reads: Hey, I’m starting a fantasy sports league. Do you want to join? I read it. And it...
by Mo'Golf | Jul 4, 2011 | Mo' Golf
Remember Jerry Pate? Remember 1982? Jerry Pate won the Players Championship, shoved Pete Dye and Deanne Beman into the pond and then dived in himself. What a lark! Crazy Jerry!! 2011? Not such a lark. Actually, it’s stupid. In March, Stacy Lewis won the Nabisco...
by mouth | Jul 2, 2011 | The Mouth
I saw this tweet from @darrenrovell yesterday “Round of golf in the US (through May) down 4.9%, days open are down 3.5% (Source: PGA PerformanceTrak) and I thought it came at perfect timing. This morning kicks off a three-day holiday weekend. Millions of us around the...
by mouth | Jul 1, 2011 | The Mouth
It’s Friday before a long summer holiday weekend. That means employees throughout Buffalo are taking the day off, looking forward to long lunches, wishing they were outside and probably planning on ducking out a few minutes early. It’s the kind of day that...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 30, 2011 | Mo' Golf
Forgive me this trip back in yellow journalism, back to a time of WR Hearst and his ilk… what’s the deal with coverage of Tiger Woods? Has there been an unstated, unpublicized moratorium on dirt-digging? Have all his dalliances been discovered? Are there...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 30, 2011 | Mo' Golf
Despite some issues with updated scoring, the new International Junior Masters website is up and running, in time to trumpet the news that three local golfers made their way into the championship flight of 16 pretenders to the throne held by Jonathan Clark. Dan...
by Rico | Jun 29, 2011 | Rico's Rants
Sandbag – a bag filled with sand used in fortification. To deceive someone about one’s capabilities. Does any sport toss the word sandbagger around more than golf? It seems like every time someone shoots an unusually low score or has a great hole, they...
by mouth | Jun 29, 2011 | The Mouth
He wouldn’t say it officially, but every comment Tiger Woods uttered during his presser before this week’s AT&T National event gave the impression he wouldn’t be in the field at the 2011 British Open. “I’d go over there to win the...
