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2008 is One of Golf’s Most Exciting Years…With and Without Tiger

As we stock up on the chip and dip and prepare for golf’s silly season on television, I was trying to decide what my favorite moment of the 2008 season was. Sergio Garcia victory at the Players Championship seemed to be the breakthrough win he needed to finally be recognized as an elite player. Can a...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 11-20-2008
The King is Dead. Long Live the King; Is the European Tour Becoming the Tour of Choice?

It all started 20 years ago when Greg Norman decided that the PGA Tour was not the center of the universe, and now that same idea is sending Tim Finchem back to the medicine cabinet for another roll of Tums. Who cares if it makes perfect sense for the tour to go international? The PGA Tour, like my kid...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 11-06-2008
I’d Rather Be Long Than Smart

I have never met a golfer that didn’t want to be long off the tee. It’s a male thing mostly, but women are not totally immune. You could be five foot nothing and weight 86 pounds and you would still want to be long off the tee. Let’s face it nobody ever won the girl with a 240-yard drive except maybe...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 10-08-2008
And The FedEx Cup Winner Is…

The FedEx Cup already had its work cut out for it, and now that the U.S. of A. has pounded the festive whey out of the Euros in the Ryder Cup, it may be impossible to get excited about whatever happens. Let’s face it, Vijay Singh is in the same spot that Charlton Heston was in Ben-Hur; all he has to...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 09-24-2008
Golf Balls, Cream Gravy and No Looking Back

If you don’t like the Ryder Cup you don’t like cream gravy, or black-eyed peas, or hotdogs, or apple pie, or pasta, or KFC, or Mexican food, or potatoes, or … Sorry, I’m on a diet. In any case, here we are at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., the home of Adolph Rupp, Muhammad Ali, the...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 09-17-2008
Good Bye FedEx Cup. Hello Ryder Cup.

Scatter shooting while wondering what happened to Phil Mickelson at the FedEx Cup? I hate to say I told you so, but I will. As I predicted (along with half the other golf writers in the western world), the final round of the FedEx Cup will not decide who wins anything except the final round because Vijay...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 09-11-2008
Is It Too Early, or Too Late to Worry About The FedEx Cup?

Most of the time when you look at the stats of a tournament it is easy to see how the champion won. Not so at the Barclays. Sure, Vijay rolled in a big one on the first playoff hole and Sergio turned into Sergio on the second hole, but other than that there was 20 minutes worth of excitement crammed...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 08-28-2008
Just Like Batman, Tiger Needs His Joker

Greatness does not necessarily require a challenger, but it helps. Magic Johnson would have been great without Larry Bird and vice-versa. However, there is one thing that we all know for sure; it was great fun to watch the two go at each other. Golf rivals are no different. Bobby Jones had his Walter...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 08-21-2008
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 I recall correctly, it was Tuesday or Wednesday...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 07-10-2008
The Ryder Cup Without Tiger Woods

The question being whispered about these days has to do with whether or not the U.S. Ryder Cup team is a better team without Tiger Woods? How is that possible, you ask? Frankly, I find it a hard to understand myself, but ever since Tiger Woods became “the superstar” of the game of golf he appears to...

Posted to Tees2Greens on Golf (Weblog) by Sam 'Bogey' Johnson on 07-02-2008

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