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GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
I don't know if having been blessed to have seen all but one hole in person or if was John Hawkins doing such a superb job, but I'm leaning toward the latter for the sheer joy I found in reading his Tiger-Rocco-Torrey story for Golf World's Newsmakers issue. The clippings below are for my little archives here just in case the story were to disappear. But just read the whole thing, I suspect you'll...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
When Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in June he did it with a supporting cast. He had his wife and friends in attendance, but the U.S. Open depends on hundreds of volunteers, as is the case with all competitions in golf from the junior level to the game’s premier national championship. Even the broadcast of the event on NBC requires a team of volunteers to assist the network crew in the...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Josh Anderson got the rare opportunity last June to walk inside the ropes during practice rounds of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. The experience was courtesy of his childhood friend from Murrieta, Rickie Fowler, the Oklahoma State star who qualified through Sectionals.
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Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Now that would be an intimidating round of golf! Four months after U.S. Open, Tiger Woods back at Torrey Pines as caddie SAN DIEGO - Four months after his epic U.S. Open victory, Tiger Woods returned to Torrey Pines on Monday without a limp. He didn't have golf clubs, either. Hopping from a cart, Woods walked up to 59-year-old John Abel, doffed his cap and extended his right hand. "Hey, I hear you're...
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GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Golf Digest has won an innovation award for...drum roll please...its break 100 at Torrey Pines deal. I know, I know, you were thinking it was for having the most rankings in American magazine history, but no, Simon Demenco at AdAge writes about The American Magazine Vanguard Awards and says... A nearly 60-year-old golf magazine at the "vanguard"? Yep. It scores an AMVA this year for its Golf Digest...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
On a whim Friday night, Jonathan Sixt called the Torrey Pines golf reservation line and got a 7:30 a.m. tee time for yesterday. He thought he'd be playing nine holes, since the full 18 on the North had been closed for seven months for the preparation and aftermath of the 2008 U.S. Open played in June.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Danielle Frasier knew there was a diplomatic answer to the question. You could hear it in the 15-year-old golfer's voice. She had been asked if she would rather be playing the Girls 15-17 Division of the Callaway Junior World Golf Championships at its usual site on the Torrey Pines North Course, instead of at Carlton Oaks Country Club in Santee.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
This week in the Callaway Junior World Golf Championships, Steven Kearney will have a significantly better view of the holes on the Torrey Pines South Course than he did on a Monday a month ago.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Here's one way to view Tiger Woods' epic victory in last month's U.S. Open in San Diego - it validated the concept of bringing marquee tournaments to the West Coast. As you probably know, NBC scheduled the final two rounds at Torrey Pines to stretch into...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Here's one way to view Tiger Woods' epic victory in last month's U.S. Open in San Diego - it validated the concept of bringing marquee tournaments to the West Coast. As you probably know, NBC scheduled the final two rounds at Torrey Pines to stretch into...
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GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
There's not too much more I can say about the details of the Torrey Pines setup that were not covered in the GolfDigest.com blog or in the Golf World story on No. 14 . However I would ask you to consider the potential impact of what Mike Davis and friends accomplished at Torrey Pines. They took a golf course virtually devoid of strategic questions and made it a thinking man's championship that will...
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GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Our friend Frank Hannigan, the former USGA Executive Director, wrote after the thrilling U.S. Open to put matters in his unique perspective. Dear Geoff: Golf was not invented at Torrey Pines. Nor did it die on Tuesday when Tiger Woods revealed he is badly damaged and can't play for the balance of 2008. Ben Hogan, hit straight on by a fast moving bus, in the winter of 1948, after winning the US Open,...
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SI.com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
While the golf world mourns the loss of Tiger Woods for the rest of 2008, don't expect British bookmakers to send the World No. 1 any "Get well soon" cards. UK bookies lost about £1 million each (almost $2 million) when Woods won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. After Tiger's April surgery and two-month layoff, the odds on his winning his 14th major fell to 7-2 (down from 5-4 earlier in the year), the...
