Parshighted (Blogs about golf...mostly)

Scotland is the home of golf, with players first hitting rocks and later balls on its terrain since the 15th century, and St. Andrews, therefore, is the mother church.  St. Andrews Royal and Ancient Golf Course, in Fife, Scotland overlooking the North Sea, has been hosting Open Championships since 1873, twenty-nine tournaments in all, usually held every five years. St. Andrews is so iconic and ensconced in the history of the sport itself that Tiger Woods skipped our National Championship, the United States Open, so that he would be in his best physical condition to make the trip across the...

Amidst the buzz and furor over LIV golf, the start-up golf league fronted by Greg Norman and financed by the Saudi Government (think Teddy KGB, using Grama to back Mike and Worm during their quixotical poker quest, but for golfers), the third Major of the year, The United States Open, will be played outside of Boston, Massachusetts, at a course so old that it is simply knows as The County Club…no preface needed. It’s a shame that the LIV golf talk is dominating the narrative of this Championship because it has all the markings for a classic.  With Rory Mcilroy...

  It was Tulsa Time at the PGA Championship ladies and gents, and I thank CBS and ESPN for playing the Don Williams classic at every commercial break, so I “set my watch back to it” at least 300 times during the course of the weekend. Look him up kids, he was a Country music singer who sat on a stool, wore a cool hat, and sang real songs about country people, when ass shaking was not a prerequisite. But I digress. The real story of PGA 2022 is the pharynx obstruction job by Mita Pereira, but we’ll get to...

  (A Treatise on Greatness) In my humble opinion, The Masters is the greatest sporting event in the United States, greater than the Superbowl, more exciting than March Madness, and more historic moments than the World Series.  Out of all the big three sports, not one can touch the majesty of Augusta National Golf Club or the artistry that is on display there every April, when the azaleas and dogwoods are in full bloom and four days feel like an extended Christmas morning.  One doesn’t have to be a golf fan to appreciate the sheer beauty and radiance of the...

Jordan Spieth is from Texas, which is good, because he looks exactly like someone from Texas, tall and lanky and slim. But not in an Outlaw Josey Wales kind of way (I think he was from Kansas or Missouri, not Texas, but you catch my drift), that would be reserved for a gunslinger looking player like Dustin Johnson, one that has the walk and the slow drawl, and the hot wife.  No, if Jordan were in an old Western movie, he would play the part of the young, green cowboy who was still wet behind the ears and didn’t even...