June 8, 2023

CBS News: Sister of Saudi aid worker jailed over Twitter account speaks out as Saudi cultural investment expands with PGA Tour merger

CBS News: Sister of Saudi aid worker jailed over Twitter account speaks out as Saudi cultural investment expands with PGA Tour merger. “The American sister of a Saudi aid worker who was jailed over his satirical Twitter feed is voicing concerns about Saudi Arabia’s reach into the social media giant, as the Arab nation pursues an emergent role in culture and professional sports.”

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February 15, 2023

Golf Digest: Artist CR Obetz salvages the iconic drawings of illustrator Anthony Ravielli with 21st-century methods

Golf Digest: Artist CR Obetz salvages the iconic drawings of illustrator Anthony Ravielli with 21st-century methods . ” As an artist, Obetz’s general instinct is to search for the lost and forgotten, so he ignored the paintings on the main walls and ventured into the back room where he found boxes containing thousands of sketches, notes and scratchboards littering a billiards table. Among them, he recognized the sharp black pen of Anthony Ravielli and knew he had to rescue them.” There’s some NFT stuff in here and it’s partially promotional with Golf Digest, so I almost didn’t include it. But the art is so good.

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August 4, 2022

Texas A&M Today: Texas A&M Student Shares Love Of Golf And Engineering Through Viral TikToks

Texas A&M Today: Texas A&M Student Shares Love Of Golf And Engineering Through Viral TikToks. “After gaining hundreds of followers from a video of her attempting to make a table out of golf balls, [Katie Calderon] discovered she could use the platform to showcase how golf clubs are engineered. Making use of the 3D printers at Texas A&M, Calderon began developing and testing a 3D-printed putter — the first ever to be produced.”

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August 18, 2021

Yahoo Finance: 2021 has been a record year for the golf business

Yahoo Finance: 2021 has been a record year for the golf business. “Within the last week, we’ve seen golf’s two biggest publicly-traded companies — Titleist parent company Acushnet (GOLF) and Callaway Golf (ELY) — report quarterly results. And these reports indicated that just about every benefit that accrued to the industry during the pandemic has only improved this year.”

COVID-19 0
August 4, 2020

ZDNet: Who’s the greatest golfer of all time? This data-led project might have the answer

ZDNet: Who’s the greatest golfer of all time? This data-led project might have the answer. “What do you do if a global pandemic means you can’t stage one of the world’s most famous golf tournaments? For The R&A, organisers of The Open, the answer was to use a combination of data and video to create a virtual tournament of golfing greats from the past 50 years.”

Research & Opinion 0
July 8, 2020

United States Golf Association: Historic Howard Schickler Photo Collection Acquired

United States Golf Association: Historic Howard Schickler Photo Collection Acquired. “The collection contains more than 1,000 high-quality, historically and artistically important golf images from the 19th and early 20th century. Many photographs feature top American and British golfers, both men and women, from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. The collection was amassed over decades by collector Howard Schickler, sourced from the collections of some of the game’s most influential figures, including the personal collections of Old Tom Morris and F.G. Tait, the Auchterlonie and the Foulis families, the estate of Billy Burke and the collections of Ed Dudley and Bernard Darwin.”

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May 24, 2020

The Daily Beast: Trump Goes to Golf Club, Not Church, After Demanding Houses of Worship Open

The Daily Beast: Trump Goes to Golf Club, Not Church, After Demanding Houses of Worship Open. “President Donald Trump headed to his Virginia golf club once again Sunday morning, according to a Wall Street Journal reporter, just days after he made a brief press statement demanding that houses of worship be opened ‘right now for this weekend’ during the coronavirus pandemic.”

COVID-19 0
May 5, 2020

Golf: Here’s the newest golf league you can watch on social media

Golf: Here’s the newest golf league you can watch on social media. “The European Tour announced today the playing of the BMW Indoor Invitational, a new series of virtual golf tournaments using Trackman technology. The event will feature European Tour players Martin Kaymer, Joost Luiten, Mike Lorenzo Vera, Lee Westwood and Bernd Wiesberger as they face off head to head in virtual competition from their own homes. With regular events on the European Tour still suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, the event will allow pros to compete against each other and keep their games sharp, all without leaving the comforts of their homes.”

COVID-19 0
April 16, 2020

BBC Sport: PGA Tour plans to resume in June with tournaments behind closed doors

BBC Sport: PGA Tour plans to resume in June with tournaments behind closed doors. “The PGA Tour has announced plans to resume in June with the first four tournaments played behind closed doors. The Tour has been suspended since 12 March because of the global coronavirus pandemic that has halted all golf. The Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas is scheduled to be the first tournament back on 11-14 June.”

COVID-19 0
April 5, 2020

How-To Geek: How to Stream U.S. Sports for Free Online

How-To Geek: How to Stream U.S. Sports for Free Online. “The wide world of sports has been mostly postponed for 2020 thanks to the coronavirus. As we all try to flatten the curve with social distancing, some of the most popular U.S. sports leagues are streaming both new and old games for free.” Very extensive, handy for those of you who are missing your sports.

COVID-19 0
December 20, 2019

PRNewswire: GroupChips. com Launches Golf Puns Website – Announces Pun Contest (PRESS RELEASE)

PRNewswire: GroupChips. com Launches Golf Puns Website – Announces Pun Contest (PRESS RELEASE). “GroupChips.com, the creator of an innovative social media platform for golf instruction has rolled out a new website to create an online database of golf related puns. The website, at https://golfpuns.com, will begin displaying puns in January 2020, but is currently accepting pun submissions from anyone who thinks they are clever and funny!”

New Resources 0
September 10, 2019

Silicon Republic: How this site aims to digitise the relationship between golfers and caddies

Silicon Republic: How this site aims to digitise the relationship between golfers and caddies. “On [Graham] Curry’s new website, caddies can create profiles of themselves and golfers can view their profiles, look at reviews of their work and arrange rounds of golf…. When I first heard about Curry’s idea, I thought he was taking on the world of the super-rich – or just pro golfers. But it turns out that average golfers also hire caddies regularly.”

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