Matthew Adams - Fairways of Life

A Final (Beautiful) Look at Scotland Part III (of 3)

Murcar Links Golf Club: Even golf trips eventually take on their own singular identity. By the third day of 36 holes (two rounds each day), our tired limbs were telling us that our walking 12 miles a day, up and down dunes (that seemed like mountains...

Posted Mar 04 2010, 11:25 AM by Matthew Adams with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Turnberry Ailsa Course, Scottish Golf, Murcar Links Golf Club, Royal Aberdeen, Cruden Bay Golf Club, Glasgow, Loch Lamond

Scottish Golf: My View, Part II

Nairn Golf Club: The first course on the day’s agenda was the Nairn Golf Course (www.NairnGolfClub.co.uk). While currently enjoying considerable notoriety and acclaim, it was only a few short years ago that Nairn sat in relative obscurity. Then, as host...

Posted Feb 18 2010, 07:20 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Old Moray Golf Course, Nairn Golf Course, Scottish Golf

Scottish Golf: Hidden Gems Part I

St Andrews, the city, and the Old Course are so much more than merely a golfing destination. For a golfer, St Andrews is quite simply a mecca. It is a pilgrimage that anyone who truly purports to love the game must make at least once in a lifetime. The...

Posted Feb 04 2010, 10:32 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Brora Golf Club, Tain Golf Course

A Day in the Sun: The Greatest Open Championship

No one ever doubted the natural talents of Tom Watson. By the time he was in his mid-20s, he was long off the tee, laser accurate with his irons, had the ability to get up and down from anywhere and had a bold and confident putting stroke. Such defined...

Posted Jan 21 2010, 10:57 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Jack Nicklaus, Matthew Adams, Byron Nelson, Tom Watson, U.S. Open, Winged Foot, 1974

In Celebration of the Bold

You heard the outcry didn’t you? Heard the electronic snickering, the printed ridicule and the world-wide golf-media mocking? The March edition of Golf World U.K. (not affiliated with the U.S. version of the magazine by the same name) featured a long...

Posted Jan 07 2010, 04:23 PM by Matthew Adams with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Tiger Woods, Ian Poulter, U.S. Open

Tiger's Wayward Drive

The recent Tiger Woods mess has brought a number of intriguing topics to the surface, albeit, hardly into focus. The so called facts depend upon who is delivering the message and their agenda. No shock there, of course, that pretty much sums up the “Red...

Posted Dec 17 2009, 11:49 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Tiger Woods

A Year that Cannot be Forgotten (even if you wanted to)

One of the great things about sports is that they write their own story. Unyielding to sentiment, sensationalism or the unrelenting pounding of our heart strings. Simply put, 2009 was a year that we’ll never forget, in large part, not because of what...

Posted Dec 03 2009, 10:54 AM by Matthew Adams with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Matthew Adams, 2009, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Chad Campbell, Stewart Cink, Y.E. Yang, Angel Cabrera, Padraig Harrington, Henrik Stenson, Kenny Perry, David Duval, Tom Watson

A Recipe for Success

The end of the year brings with it the conclusion of another year of my radio show, called Fairways of Life, which airs each week on the PGA Tour Network (heard on Sirius and XM Satellite Radio in North America and around the globe on PGATOUR.com). This...

Posted Nov 19 2009, 01:47 PM by Matthew Adams with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Matthew Adams

Tony Jacklin's Words of Wisdom

The career of Tony Jacklin has been compared to that of a streaking commet; brief, yet brilliant. Jacklin was born into a working class family in England and at one time was an apprentice steelworker. His father introduced him to golf at an early age...

Posted Nov 05 2009, 08:17 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Open Championship, Tony Jacklin, 1969

My Heart Will Rest at Ballybunion Old

Ballybunion Old, an apt moniker, indeed For this masterpiece was not built, not shaped, never put to seed It is as God left it, a natural beauty, something to amaze, Deep valleys, plummeting cliffs and heather shrouded dunes, bathed in ethereal haze Upon...

Posted Oct 22 2009, 08:56 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Ballybunion Old Course

Everything New is Old Again

It is an annual rite of the New Year when optimism, hope and spirit of renewal prevail. Everything is fresh and new, a blank canvas. A chance to start anew. For reasons both commercial and emotional, the world of golf has more than its fair share of space...

Posted Oct 08 2009, 12:53 PM by Matthew Adams with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Cochrane & Co. Super Giant Niblick, Walter Hagen Sand Wedge, Golf Equipment, A.G. Spalding Spring Face Iron, The Simplex Club, Lockwood & Brown Mashie

Into the Mystic, Ireland's North and West

It is understandable to be full of excitement and anticipation at the prospect of a golfing trip to Ireland with your buddies. Our objective was simple enough, four friends meandering our way through the north and west of Ireland, hoping to discover the...

Posted Sep 24 2009, 07:24 AM by Matthew Adams with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Ireland, Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Course, County Sligo Golf Course, Bushmills Inn, Royal Portrush Dunluce Links, Giant's Causeway, Portsalon Golf Club, Dromoland Castle, Ballyliffen Lodge, Radisson SAS Sligo Hotel, Portstewart

Thank Hagen for Wanamaker Rule

Did you notice that in Tiger Woods pre-tournament press conference, that he was asked if he displayed the Wannamaker Trophy for winning the PGA Championship with the rest of his hardware? Tiger answered that he did not, as they don’t let you take that...

Posted Sep 10 2009, 07:06 AM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, Walter Hagen, Tiger Woods, PGA Championship, Wannamaker Trophy

The Playoff Payoff

Well, the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup are upon us, the pursuit of which kicked off this week at Liberty National a course co-designed by none other than Tom Kite (with Bob Cupp). Liberty National As has been well noted, this course is built on...

Posted Aug 27 2009, 02:29 PM by Matthew Adams with | with no comments

Filed under: Matthew Adams, 2009, FedEx Cup, Liberty National

Johnny's 63: A Most Shocking Record

Coming into the 1973 U.S. Open at Oakmont, the sense of daunting was palatable. Oakmont was well used to the its staring role on the nation’s most prominent national stage and it carried with it more than just the pedigree of having hosted four national...

Posted Aug 12 2009, 05:12 PM by Matthew Adams with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Jack Nicklaus, Matthew Adams, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, 1973, U.S. Open at Oakmont, Bobby Jones, Johnny Miller

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