Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
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Jeff is a PGA Master Golf Professional, broadcaster, golf writer, instructor, and former player.
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
4d ago
“There is no king in golf. There never has been, and there never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on earth. It punishes and exalts us with its splendid opportunities.” Arnold Palmer. The sport of golf kicked off the 2024 Major Tournament Golf Season with its annual rite of spring, hosting the 88th ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
9M ago
Horses for Courses is a term that is often used in golf vernacular and refers to a pocket-size selection of PGA Tour Professionals winning on golf courses that suit their games, styles, and strengths. Jack Nicklaus prevailed at the Augusta National Golf Club and won the Masters six times; Tiger Woods flourished at Torrey Pines ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
10M ago
The United States Open Golf Championship returned to Southern California and the Los Angeles Country Club after a seventy-five-year hiatus to robust criticism from players and fans alike. Small galleries, lack of grandstands, forced carries, blind tee shots, and severely sloped fairways that ran off into gnarly fescue-protected island greens and rough marred the USGA’s ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
10M ago
With 2023 PGA Champion Brooks Koepka Pain is the scourge and complaint for many athletes, primarily when the suffering exists in the knees, feet, and joints that restrict their movements and range of motion. Injuries compounded and more problematic for Professional Golfers who must forcefully swing a golf club and walk when they ply their ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
11M ago
Legend has it that the late Seve Ballesteros, whose 66th birthday would have been this past Sunday, could get it up and down from the parking lot to save par 2023 Masters Champion, Jon Rahm, channeling his best Seve impersonation, did just that not once but twice on a rain-delayed, soggy Augusta National’s final day ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
1y ago
Thirty times, the oldest major Golf Championship has been contested on the wind-swept and venerated links of the Old Course at Saint Andrews, the Scottish ancestral home of Golf and an exalted shrine to the foibles and peculiarities of Golfers through the world. The Open Championship returned to Scotland this year to celebrate the 150th ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
1y ago
Undoubtedly, the game and sport of Golf is an import from the British Islands. Conceived, developed, and propagated on the wind-swept Linksland of the Scottish coast, it slowly migrated to the eastern seaboard of the American mainland, where it indifferently spread amongst the blossoming and burgeoning middle class created by the industrial revolution of the ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
2y ago
In my fifty-plus years as a PGA Professional, whether as a Player, Administrator, Journalist, Broadcaster, or Blogger, I’ve played in, administered, and covered hundred’s Golf Tournaments globally. I’ve journeyed to and visited most of the famous and celebrated Golf cities, states, and countries worldwide. Including the 2022 PGA Championship contested this past week at the ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
2y ago
The History of Golf in Utah-In the Beginning, the Birth of Golf The practice of hitting, swatting, or slapping an object with a stick is as old as recorded history. Bored from tending their herds of sheep and goats, shepherd boys of nomadic Arab tribes would knock pebbles from tree to bush to pass the ..read more
Talking Golf With The Golf Guy
2y ago
The beauty, grandeur, magnificence, and brilliance of the Master’s Golf Tournament, contested the first full week of April each year in Augusta, Georgia, has become a rite of passage for adoring sports fans worldwide. This annual celebration of spring which heralds the beginning of the golf season worldwide offers up a juxtaposition of the visionary ..read more