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Spotlight: Winter golf prep at Florida’s Saddlebrook Golf & Tennis Resort
It’s tough to not feel just a shade envious when strolling the grounds of Saddlebrook Golf & Tennis Resort near Tampa. Also the home of a boarding prep school for elite golf and tennis players, you’ll see smiling kids enjoying open-air meals, lounging at the pool and strolling the manicured resort trails en route to […]
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The Modest Beginnings Of Golf's 2020 Major Champions
NEVER give up on your dreams. From Carolinas Junior Boys' Champion to @TheMasters record-setter. The Carolinas couldn't be prouder of @DJohnsonPGA's accomplishments in this great game. #MondayMotivation at #TheMasters pic.twitter.com/xZ8mz49SmK
— Carolinas Golf Assoc (@CGAgolf1909) November 16, 2020Nothing against elite country clubs or clubby junior golf circuits, but 2020’s three major championships were each won by sons of less conventional
Collin Morikawa, the PGA Championship winner at Harding Park, got his start at southern California’s Chevy Chase Country Club, which is not to be confused with Riviera.
Bryson DeChambeau, the U.S. Open champion at Winged Foot, refined his game at Madera’s Dragonfly.
And the 2020 Masters winner got his start at Weed Hill driving range, the family operation of golf architect Bobby Weed.
Tiger to play with Charlie, 11, in father-son event
The PNC Championship announced Thursday that Tiger Woods will play with 11-year-old son Charlie in the tournament that has paired major champions with their sons since 1995.
First Look: Bettinardi 2021 Putter Lines
Bettinardi 2021 putter lines will include updates of their Queen B and Studio Stock lines.The iNOVAi Rev 7 will be added to the iNOVAi line.The new Studio Stock Putters feature an all-new Roll Control face.
Keeping with their November tradition, Bettinardi Golf has unveiled the Bettinardi 2021 putter lines. This means a couple of things. First, Bettinardi is staying with their two-year model cycle, meaning that this time around we will see new Studio Stock and Queen B putters. Second, the 2020 BB and iNOVAi lines will continue for another year, with maybe just a little something-something coming to the iNOVAi cohort in 2021.
Most importantly, the 2021 lines are getting pretty significant overhauls this time around. Not only will we see new models and aesthetics in the Bettinardi 2021 offerings but Bettinardi has also unveiled a completely new face design. We have a bevy of Bettis to get through today, so let’s pull off those headcovers and take a look.
First up, the new Queen B line.
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R.I.P. Leonard Kamsler
Longtime and revered golf photographer Leonard Kamsler has passed. He was 85.
Golf Digest’s Peter Morrice put together this tribute to Kamsler with some of his best images and wrote:
Kamsler took assignments in other fields as well, working for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice and the Harlem Globetrotters. He even shot for country-music labels and medical journals. But golf was the constant. Known for his innovative techniques, he brought high-speed stroboscopic photography to golf in the 1970s using a Hulcher camera, developed to analyze football plays. Kamsler retooled his Hulcher to shoot 100 frames per second, more than 200 images for a single swing, and the frame-by-frame swing sequence was born.
From Alan Bastable’s story at Golf.com:
Kamsler shot all the greats, even the famously camera-shy Ben Hogan — well, sort of. According to one story Kamsler liked to tell, he was assigned to snap a swing sequence of Hogan in Texas. “Hogan would never, ever permit anyone to photograph him,” Dave Allen, a former GOLF Magazine instruction editor, wrote in a text message on Tuesday. “So Hogan was out on this one hole with a shag bag to hit balls. Leonard tried to camouflage himself as a bush and sneak up on Hogan. He went through some great pains to do this, hauling his heavy camera out there and then covering himself with some green plant life he gathered along the way. Well, there’s a reason they called Hogan The Hawk — he spotted Leonard nearly right away, picked up his bag of balls and moved on.”
State Of The Game 108: The Masters With Lukas Michel
Lukas Michel played the 2020 Masters and joined Rod Morri, Mike Clayton and yours truly to talk about the experience. Naturally we got sidetracked on distance talk because that’s what we do. But we also managed to cover a lot about Michel’s special week in Augusta include his practice rounds, favorite holes and the amateur dinner.
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2021: Desert's American Express To Be Spectator Fee, Pro-Am Format Salvaged
Larry Bohannan details quite a bit about the American Express (aka Bob Hope Classic) confirming a lack of spectators at the 2021 playing. The third PGA Tour event on the 2021 portion of the schedule was able to save its pro-am format, a significant source of charitable income.
Under the county’s current purple tier for reopening, the most restrictive of four state color-coded tiers, live sports can be played but without spectators. The LPGA’s ANA Inspiration was played in September in Rancho Mirage under the purple tier. That women's tournament did allow fans who live in homes around the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club to watch the event from their backyards, something that will also be true at the American Express.
Oh and I can’t wait for the banners this year.
The tournament will, however suffer a huge setback both for its finances and momentum with its popular weekend concerts being put on hold:
While the tournament statement made no mention of the two nights of concerts that are part of the event, no ticketed spectators means no onsite concerts, too.The two concerts in 2020 featured rock legends Stevie Nicks on Friday and country star Luke Bryan on Saturday.Crowd estimate were from 18,000 to 20,000 a night for the concerts, with tickets on those days selling for $50 each.
