• Follow the Journey: Breaking 90 with Trent Ryan

    Trent Ryan, also known as @BarstoolTrent, has been on a quest to break 90 in golf for over a year, a mission documented in his YouTube series “Breaking 90.” His companion, Frankie Borelli, who previously helped set up a “Breaking 100” challenge, joins him in this inspiring yet frustrating journey.

  • Playing from the ‘reds’

    It’s something I’ve considered: play from the ‘reds’, or what are typically considered the women’s tees, what would I shoot? I’m usually a mid-80s baller, a 13 index GHIN, but from the up-tees my wager is that I break 80. Something I have never done. Well this week the Fore Play podcast crew put the…

  • Let’s Get Sorted

    Like many, I am frustrated by the bifurcated nature of golf. PGA Tour over here on the left, and LIV over here on the right. Very few would argue that having the talent split out into separate camps, or leagues, does not benefit the fan. It may benefit the players financially, but certainly not the…

  • Kis Could be our McAfee

    Let this *take* marinate for a minute. Golf needs a Pat McAfee. What Pat has done for ESPN, College Gameday, and the broadcast product of NCAA College Football is nothing short of a revolution that was needed very badly. College football had become such a predictable broadcast “product” – not necessarily the games and athletes,…

  • Happy New Year

    Maybe just a couple predictions… Kisner as an announcer: He’ll be a home-run because of his anti-establishment approach to discussing golf as opposed to “presenting” golf. He’ll bring the pro golfer eye and average golfer quick wit to the pomp of the PGA. He’ll start at The Sentry, January 4-7 (with a $15M purse) and then…

  • Rollback?

    I’m going to try to summarize a point of view on the golf(ball) rollback initiative. To start at end, I think it’s an exercise in academic futility that makes me scratch my head to such an extent I may have caused bleeding. Based on my cursory reading on the topic it sounds like the golf…

  • Rahmbo Jumping Ship?

    There is so much speculation out there right now about John Rahm prepping to announce a jump from the PGA Tour to LIV it’s hurting my eyeballs. Having said that, the old axiom is likely spot on in this case: there is so much smoke the fire must be massive. I hate to add fuel…

  • Woods @ HERO

    So for many of my readers I think this post will come off as fairly incendiary and maybe counter-productive to the grander mission of getting some semblance of El Tigre back on Tour, at least for the majors. Tiger Woods was a sweaty mess this past weekend at The Hero World Golf Challenge at the…

  • LIV Player Portal & Relegation

    I am so very fearful that Tiger’s TGL will go the way of the Dodo Bird. Truthfully I haven’t read up on it much though. But I don’t love TopGolf myself so can’t imagine watching a version of it on TV. In fact, today I watched Rory try to throw two pitches at Boston’s famed…

  • World Golf rankings

    Might be one of the best 5 or so golfers on the planet right now. This an absurd moment in golf when a politically motivated website chooses to abandon all good sense and responsibility for ranking golfers. I’m outraged.