It should be no surprise that our 2024 ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Holes, the first of its kind since 1999, is heavily populated with representatives from theAmerica’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses ranking. These holes are why those courses are considered great. To formulate this rank...
a golf writer from the 1960s and a golf architect from 1975 onward. He mortgaged his home to buy the land and spent five years designing and building it. It opened in 1992 and is still a family business today. Hard against the Irish Sea's...
WITH THE new issue of Golf World magazine comes a small booklet listing the 50 greatest golf shots in the history of the world, as voted for by readers from a not-very-short shortlist. I was telling a friend of mine about this poll, a man who is not normally a pitching-wedge short...
10. Floyd Patterson KO6 Ingemar Johansson. March 13, 1961:Patterson and Johansson were a match made in fight fan heaven as all three of their battles were defined by big punches and wild action. Round one of their final clash was especially eventful as it saw them exchanging power shots at...
Kongo hobbled around the ring, getting back on his feet before eating more shots. Then, in a stunning turn of events, he landed a clean right hand to the chin of Barry, who toppled to the mat – unconscious. Fight over. This fight won “Knockout of the Year” honors and remains on...
1. Buster Douglas KO10 Mike Tyson, Feb. 11, 1990— In professional prizefighting, this is the upset by which all others are measured. Long shots don’t come much longer than 42-to-1. Douglas doing the unthinkable to “Iron Mike” in 1990. ...
Then there is this, which I have seen indications can mean a story is bogus, and meant for messaging rather than reality: “Brafman overtook the victims’ car in Miami Beach, made a U-turn, exited his vehicle and fired 17 shots at them.” And what have I said about the media ...
I always love seeing Lefty in contention, because the cameras are bound to show some shots of his wife when he's on 18.Matt Streit Minneapolis I'm a huge Phil Mickelson fan and I hate seeing him come so close and never win a major. But whenever they show his wife hugging him after...
WhileThe Sopranoscertainly does go into some very dark territory, I think the series continuously pushes back against the idea that life is inherently meaningless. One way it seems to do this is throughconnectivity. Chase has spoken on occasion about his conscientious use of “connective tissue”...
alive, stunning the younger man in rounds six and seven with huge shots. It wasn’t until the late rounds that Holmes got his jab working again and by then it had very little pepper on it, but he took round 13 with a series of right hand bombs. Norton rallied in t...