Articles by Michael Bamberger

July 4th, 2024

When golf and baseball converge

At heart, golf and baseball are the same sport. In both you start at home—the first tee, home plate—head out and play back to the house. Along the way, all manner of strange things may happen, and often do. Is there anything riper for disaster than a baserunner in a rundown between third and home, Read more…

August 9th, 2023

Where do we go from here?

Hostile takeovers are one thing. One group owns the other, and the conquered party has no choice. Hostile partnerships are another.

April 9th, 2023

Masters 2023: LIV Golf shows life at Augusta National

This may not rise to a level of success that would get Charlie Sheen’s attention – WINNING! – but LIV Golf is having a good week at the 87th Masters.

January 17th, 2023

Michael Murphy, the author of “Golf In The Kingdom”, ticks every box for hero

Michael Murphy is a hero to me in every sense of the word.

November 17th, 2022

Jimmy Dunne, golf’s ultimate power broker, joins PGA Tour Policy Board

The golf impresario Jimmy Dunne, the ultimate elite-golf clubby insider with the disarmingly candid demeanour of an old-school New York City cab driver, will be joining the PGA Tour policy board in the new year as an independent director.

October 26th, 2022

Opinion: A numbers game

Scottie Scheffler was named PGA Tour Player of the Year in a vote compromised by the defection of his only competition

October 15th, 2022

Phil Mickelson vs Alan Shipnuck: trying to set the record straight

Phil Mickelson recently said he “never did an interview with Alan Shipnuck” in November 2021, which golf writer Shipnuck released in February this year, creating enormous controversy for the left-handed golf great.

July 26th, 2022

OPINION: Does the Ryder Cup matter anymore?

To say they wasted no time would be an understatement: Ryder Cup Europe executives removed Henrik Stenson as their captain for next year’s event even before he was announced as a new LIV Golf recruit.

July 12th, 2022

Open Championship 2022: Greg Norman frozen out in golf’s new Cold War

Golf has never been about Us vs Them. Now it clearly is. If this move does anything, it will make public sentiment lean in LIV’s direction.

June 28th, 2022

Padraig Harrington’s win at the US Senior Open is a reminder what a treasure the Irishman is to the game

Harrington’s main thing is the long, discursive nuanced answer.

June 5th, 2022

These are unsettled times for Jack Nicklaus, but his legacy is secure

In a bizarre marriage of legalese and semantics, Nicklaus is being sued by the Nicklaus Companies in a court, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, that has a grand name but is just a district court with elected judges.

May 17th, 2022

The 2022 PGA Championship’s curious journey from Trump National to Oklahoma

In the annals of golfing weirdness, here’s a double whammy for the ages: the PGA Championship will be played this week not where it was originally scheduled to be played and without its 51-year-old defending champion in the field.