2008 - Tees2Greens on Golf

These Desperate Times; Chapter 2

Regular readers and other masochists will recall when I bought my wife golf clubs and lessons for Christmas. As if to confirm my stupidity, those shiny new clubs remain hanging in the garage to this very day. Now and then I ask my wife if I should sell...

Posted Dec 23 2008, 07:22 AM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with no comments

Filed under: Sam Johnson, Christmas, 2008

D.A. Weibring, T2G’s Favorite Champions Tour Player, Wins His First Major

Our friend D.A. Weibring had been to the Major Championship well 64 times and come up empty 64 times, but number 65 would be different. With a 2-foot par putt on the 72nd hole, D. A. carded a 9-under 271 to win the Constellation Energy Senior Players...

Posted Oct 16 2008, 08:54 AM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with no comments

Filed under: Sam Johnson, 2008, D.A. Weibring, Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship

Golf’s First Sugar Daddy, Rodman Wanamaker, And The Legacy of The PGA Championship

Ninety years ago, a Princeton man by the name of Rodman Wanamaker invited a group of golfers to lunch at the Taplow Club in New York. Although it wasn’t on the menu, by the end of the meal they had cooked up the Professional Golfers’ Association of America...

Posted Aug 06 2008, 08:07 AM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with no comments

Filed under: Sam Johnson, 2008, PGA Championship, Professional Golfers’ Association of America, Wanamaker Trophy, Rodman Wanamaker

Open A Bottle Of Scotch And Watch The Open

Perhaps it is sound of Peter Thomson’s voice, or the crazy weather, or the course conditions, or links golf, or the snooty traditions, or as I suspect, all of the aforementioned combined that makes the Open (in China they call it food, and in Britain...

Posted Jul 16 2008, 05:07 PM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with no comments

Filed under: Sam Johnson, 2008, British Open Champions, Peter Thomson, Royal Birkdale, British Open, British Open Championship Records

The New Face of Golf?

I met Anthony Kim at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship in the spring. He was with Blake Smith, one of his agents, who happens to be the son of Randy Smith, a former T2G contributor, and one of Golf Digest magazine’s perennial top-ranked instructors. If...

Posted Jul 10 2008, 07:21 AM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Sam Johnson, Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington, EDS Byron Nelson Championship, 2008, Anthony Kim, Andres Romero, Randy Smith, Vijay Singh, Retife Goosen, Justin Rose, Shigeki Maruyama, Charlie Wi, Rory Sabbatini, Gabriel Hjertsedt, Ruuji Imada, Stuart Appleby

Tiger Proofing The U.S. Open (It’s not as easy as it sounds)

With only two weeks to go before the 2008 U.S. Open, the question remains. Can anyone beat Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines, even a one legged Tiger Woods? No one could in January when about a third of the field spanked Torrey Pines at the Buick Invitational...

Posted May 28 2008, 04:21 PM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Sam Johnson, Tiger Woods, U.S. Open, 2008, Slugger White, Rees Jones, Torrey Pines

The Official World Ranking At The Half Way Mark (And You and I Almost Made It)

Watching Ryuji Imada’s impressive playoff victory at the AT&T Classic it occurred to me that a great many new names seemed to be topping the leader board this season. It also felt like the big guns had been absent much of the time, however as I check...

Posted May 21 2008, 05:01 PM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Sam Johnson, Official World Golf Rankings, Jim Furyk, 2008, Anthony Kim, Ryuji Imada, Trevor Immelman, AT&T Classic

What Byron Nelson Deserves

D.A. Weibring’s phone bill probably doubled or tripled last week. The man behind the spectacular renovation of the TPC Four Seasons course was playing in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf in Savannah, Georgia and couldn’t attend the coming out party...

Posted Apr 30 2008, 03:27 PM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with no comments

Filed under: Sam Johnson, Byron Nelson, EDS Byron Nelson Championship, 2008, D.A. Weibring, Steve Wolfard, Peggy Nelson, TPC Four Seasons, Adam Scott, Josh Peters

House Cleaning After The PGA Show

I have attended the last ten PGA Merchandise Shows and the one constant is the number of goofy products introduced each year. Perhaps the strangest was the fake putter that was actually a portable urinal. I think I wrote about that last year. The good...

Posted Jan 23 2008, 05:25 PM by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson with | with no comments

Filed under: Sam Johnson, Jim Furyk, 2008, PGA Merchandise Show, TOMI, United Sports Technologies, Pat Dempsey, AboutGolf, Changeable Shafts