by Mo'Golf | Jun 25, 2013 | Mo' Golf
I had the opportunity this afternoon to walk a few holes with one of the co-designers of Sebonack, Tom Doak. He worked with Jack Nicklaus to co-author this epic journey. Mr. Doak could not have been more accommodating of my neophyte architecture questions. He...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 25, 2013 | Mo' Golf
Here’s a breakdown of my never-fails photography routine at golf tournaments. Day one serves to take images of the entire course from tee to green, which explains why I shot over 1000 images on Monday. Tuesday is when the eye begins to stray from the formal,...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 25, 2013 | Mo' Golf
You call? OK, player, here’s our hand: WNY PGA junior tour results | WNYPLGA team championship results | US Women’s Open photo galleries | Men’s Porter Cup qualifier preview (with results linked at bottom) | Tom Tucker lessons…nice to win the...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 25, 2013 | Mo' Golf
Eight golfers moved out of qualifying into the 2013 Porter Cup tournament today. From medalist Bryce Edmister (65) to Nicholas Torrance, Stephane Dubois and Hagen Barmasse (69), scores were lower thi syear than any other previous q-school. 2013 represents the first...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 24, 2013 | Mo' Golf
The two nines at Sebonack do a wee dance of intersection. There’s no total separation of the loops, as sometimes happens with seaside courses. For the women’s open, the USGA has relocated the first hole on the card. The first tee is typically a place of...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 24, 2013 | Mo' Golf
If a picture is worth a thousand words, as Arthur Brisbane once confessed, here are three thousand words for my colleague and golfing buddy Kevin “The Scrambler” Lynch. Only he is as conversant in the dialect of English known as golf. ...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 24, 2013 | Mo' Golf
Never mind that I looked like a painter today. I might wear the same pair of cargo pants and change white polos for the entire week. You see, it’s kinda hot here…and kinda hilly…and kinda natural in spots. If you plan to go tramping through the brush...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 24, 2013 | Mo' Golf
Teams from Cazenovia Park and Hamburg golf courses won their respective divisions on Saturday the 28th at Hyde Park golf course. Matt Messing and Dan Sadowski’s 63 provided the margin of victory for the boys from Caz over the home-course favorites in Bracket A....
by Mo'Golf | Jun 24, 2013 | Mo' Golf
Wil Lockwood (Boys 16-18 division) and Chris Yustin (Boys 13-15) shared medalist honors with matching 75s on Sunday at Conewango Valley country club in Warren, PA. Lockwood’s winning margin was two strokes, while Yustin won by five. Kayla Burt and Marissa...
by TomTucker | Jun 22, 2013 | Tom Tucker
For the sake of simplicity, all advice on swings and drills is provided from a right handed perspective; lefties …. well, you know what to do! My man Tiger was on form this weekend, and observing the attitudes displayed by Tiger and Rory McIlroy prompted the...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 21, 2013 | Mo' Golf
The Erie County Amateur debuted brilliantly in 2012, honoring the legacy of championship golf in western New York. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of John McDermott’s US Open triumph at Country Club of Buffalo (now Grover Cleveland golf course), an opening...
by scrambler | Jun 21, 2013 | The Scrambler
During Morning Drive’s postmortem on Rory McIlroy’s performance, a question was raised about the last “non-Tiger” feel good story of this magnitude. Erik & Gary were racking their brains, and kept defaulting back to 1986. All I could...
by Mo'Golf | Jun 20, 2013 | Mo' Golf
96 golfers will tee off on Monday, June 24th, in search of a spot in the 2013 Men’s Porter Cup tournament. 8 spots have been reserved for this open qualifier and ties for the final spot will be resolved by a playoff. Among those attempting to qualify are former...
by scrambler | Jun 19, 2013 | The Scrambler
When word of my Probe 20/20’s demise ran through the Elma Meadows community, I received a number of condolences. Nobody in the Club had ever seen me without my trusty “anvil on a stick,” so its absence was conspicuous. I had accepted that it...
by scrambler | Jun 19, 2013 | The Scrambler
I know the Mouth wrote that a possible Sunday coronation may be ho-hum, but I think we’ve already proven that it’s too late Rory’s overall performance to be deemed uninteresting. Look at all the discussions we’ve already had just this...
