Spin-king Shane Warne is ready for whatever COVID-19 can throw at him as he bunkers down in his multi-million dollar Melbourne residence equipped with, well, just about everything.
Amid trying to keep his game sharp for when the season resumes, Soren Kjeldsen has sharpened his imitation skills of other top golfers, including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, and Ian Poulter.
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about the coronavirus and its resultant quarantine, is the brand new subset of societal cliques it has given rise to.
The golf business largely (mostly?) is on hold, but it is business as usual for one entity, and it does not require hand sanitiser or social distancing, and might even have something for the bargain hunters, though “bargain” is relative.
As golf’s various stakeholders – the PGA Tour, European Tour and LPGA Tour, Augusta National, the PGA of America, the USGA and the R&A – cancel and postpone their own events and explore potential alternative dates, all are working with the assumption that the Olympics would go on as scheduled.
This then is an arbitrary list, in no particular order, of interesting, entertaining and informative golf books worth reading, most from this century, two of them recent.
A day after Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas shared swings and results of a left-handed competition, Brooks Koepka showed his fellow PGA Tour pros who is boss when it comes to switch-hitting on the course.
You would think of all the golf swings you can find on YouTube that one from Tiger Woods would have the most popular. But according to one research project, you would be wrong.
Who among us hasn’t dreamed of ripping one of Tiger Woods’ low-slung “stingers” on command? Well, modern technology might be bringing this shot to more players.
The solo round provides the rare opportunity to summon your full concentration for every single shot. Played this way, it is less a sport and more like meditation
The new tournaments now to be cancelled include the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town in South Carolina, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, and the Byron Nelson in Dallas.
Counterfeit clubs are the biggest drain on the game, and the best defence might not be as much about what the equipment companies should be doing as it is how golf consumers should be shopping.
Australian Golf Digest
