It's hard to believe we've already arrived at the fourth and final major championship of 2012. Not long ago, I used this blog to complain about how far away the Masters was and how there was a chance I wasn't going to make it long enough due to golf depression. Now, the major championship season is about to come to a close and I will probably just re-post the same thoughts I had last year during ...

The U.S. Open is not a tradition unlike any other. It's not overseas with a classic jug as its trophy. It doesn't don the name of the golf association.

It's just the hardest test at a major championship every year. It's the national tournament. This year, it's going to be hot right out of the gate as well.

The group of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson is as star studded as it gets. Hav...

Sometimes it's important to take a step back and away from the constant grind of following the PGA Tour and the endless news cycle that comes with it. The problem with that is if you blink your eyes you might wake up to a vastly different landscape than the one you remembered. It's not that the news is so hard hitting and gossipy that you've got to stay on top of it or be swept away... it's that t...

Tomorow marks the halfway point for the year and, in turn, the 2012 PGA Tour season. I often do a yearly retrospective on the happenings that made an impact on Tour for the preceding 12 months at the end of the year, but a lot has happened halfway through this year that deserves some attention. This is not a heavily researched retrospective, it's a testament to what truly has made an impact in my ...

While PGA Tour players are midway through the Crowne Plaza Invitational this week, it felt like a good time to reflect on a week of golf news that has been far from normal. There weren't any huge scandals, but some of the stories associated with golf this week have been of the spoof variety... except for the fact that every one of the following stories actually happened. It was too hard to resist ...

The art of Power Rankings is that there is no art to it at all. Make your pick, come up with an explanation and publish. It's a simple recipe that cooks up an imperfect dish  of speculative analysis about who has the best chance of winning in any given tournament. 

But, there's always room to analyze that which has already been analyzed by another, and frankly, that's just what we do here from time...

There's only one season in professional sports that feels longer than Major League Baseball's and that's the PGA Tour's. 

We hear athletes say all the time "it's not about the money" or "my family and my faith come first, no matter what," but at this point those statements mostly fall on deaf ears. Fans have been burned to many times to believe that their hero athletes simply play for the love of the game and that, at their core, they have their priorities straight.

Enter Bubba Watson.

Today, Watson tweeted that he'd...

It is my hope that with the PGA Tour in New Orleans this week for the Zurich Classic that no controversies will develop and lead to a black eye for the Tour later on.

Seems to be a trend in NOLA these days. I supposed the football and golf worlds are vastly different, but maybe there is some seedy underworld on Tour that we have yet to discover.

Would you put it past Tiger to have a bounty program...

When was the last time you actually thought about all of the factors that affect the outcome in a round of golf? Several factors have crossed my mind before and after rounds throughout the years, but after playing my first round of 18 this weekend, I found myself in deep thought over all the things that led to my 18-over par round.

It began with the always exciting and usually catastrophic first d...