NICEVILLE, Florida – Every year we’ve made a conscious effort to visit some of the 53 courses on the Florida Historic Golf Trail. This Trail isn’t like many of the others around the country. Its courses are selected for historical purposes, and more states should create such trails. The Florida courses must be open to…
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This Masters tournament will be lacking on several fronts
The Masters tournament never lacks much. Even though it has the smallest and perhaps the weakest field of any of golf’s four major championships, the annual visit to Georgia’s Augusta National is arguably more popular with golf’s fan base than the U.S. Open, British Open or PGA Championship. However, this upcoming 81st playing of the…
Our golf team now has a Florida connection — Jason Bruno’s LinksNation
I’m happy to announce the addition of a sixth golf website partnership for www.lenziehmongolf.com. Jason Bruno’s LinksNation.com is our first website partner in Florida. Bruno, from West Palm Beach, founded LinksNation in 2009 and is also a contributor to GolfLife.com as a PGA Tour reporter While LinksNation specializes in course and resort travel features Bruno’s…
Points’ win boosts his chances for returning to the Masters
The Masters is next week. Even though the PGA Tour has been conducting big-money tournaments every week for three months, this is when the golf season kicks into high gear, and that’s a good thing for D.A. Points. Points hasn’t qualified for the Masters yet, but he’s peaking at the right time and seems the…
Want to get serious about your golf? Check out the PGA Learning Center
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida – The PGA Golf Club, with its four courses, has no trouble attracting golfers. There’s more to the place than those four courses, however. Most notably, there’s the PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance. This is where the really serious golfers hang out. Very few golf facilities have anything like…
PGA Tour braces for first Bay Hill tourney without Palmer
ORLANDO, Florida – Tuesday is usually the quiet day at PGA Tour stops. It’s the time in between pro-am days when players have the course and practice facilities to themselves to get ready for the start of competition on Thursday. That wasn’t the case at Bay Hill Club Tuesday, as players, officials and spectators braced…
Past champs Donald, Streelman look to Valspar tourney for another boost
PALM HARBOR, Florida – The Masters, the year’s first major golf championship, is just a month away and the Chicago’s top two PGA Tour players haven’t qualified as yet. This week’s stop — the Valspar Championship on Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead course –figures to give both Luke Donald and Kevin Streelman a boost, however. Neither are…
Palm Beach has a par-3 course that is unlike any other
PALM BEACH, Florida – I’ve always believed that the Nickol Knoll course in my former backyard is the best par-3 course in Illinois. As for the best par-3 in the entire United States I had given the nine-holer at Big Cedar Lodge in Branson, Mo., a slight edge over Three-tops, at Treetops Resort in Gaylord,…
`The Elegant Mouse’ should be required reading for golf fanatics
Who is the smallest player to compete successfully on the PGA Tour? My guess is that it was Bob Toski. He stood 5-foot-7 and his fighting weight in his playing days was just 118 pounds. There may have been shorter players, but none lighter. Now 90, Toski’s stature in golf is that of a giant….
PGA Tour’s Florida Swing won’t be the same without Doral, Palmer
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – The Florida Swing of the PGA Tour season, which tees off on Thursday at PGA National, has changed dramatically from a year ago. One tournament, known since 2011 as the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship, left its home of 55 years at Trump National Doral’s Blue Course in Miami and moved…