SOUND ON! 🔊 “In 2013, Congress forced the DoD to close a secret Navy research program and, in doing so, let loose America’s darkest secret in its biggest city...” Today’s the day! My thriller VINCENT VINO is now available from Moonbay Media! ➡️ https://t.co/w2wUKylQRk
Oak Knoll is a fun classic style course (with beautiful live oaks) built in 1923 in Hammond, LA. We've been working this summer to enlarge the smaller greens (<3,000 sf), restore the fun contours, & add more pins. Testing contours today and @PlatinumTE starts going down soon!
On Friday, Sports Illustrated released their entire golf crew. That sucks.
Not only because incredibly talented and experienced journalists like Bob Harig are now (temporarily) out of work. But one of the largest sports media empires is cutting virtually their entire coverage of the sport we all love.
Storytelling is the greatest asset a sport has to drive engagement and fan interest. If there are less reporters at the events and fans have to rely on questions from tour employees, media who are financially linked to the tour they cover, or media who are represented by the same agencies as the players, then output is inevitably going to be sanitised.
Professional golf is already boring when it compares to other sports. The legendary characters of Arnie, Seve, Chi Chi etc are long gone and now the vast majority are media trained robots who offer very little in the way of a story unless it’s pulled out of them by a willing journalist. That’s only going to get worse the more great writers become unemployed.
I haven’t been in the golf media game for long, but I have learned one very important lesson. Authentic storytelling is paramount to the success of the sport and elevating stars.
I’d like to wish every single one of the great journalists that was released by SI all the best for the future and I hope they land in another important role within the sport as soon as possible.
Visited my renovation Friday at @olympiahills18 near San Antonio. Despite a LOT of rain, @verdesportsco is making good progress. Nine holes of irrigation installed, tree work complete, tees underway & new @Billy_Bunker bunkers w/ @turfmaterials Premier Play sand looking good!
@SHistorians@DonaldRossSocie Been there. Done that. 16,000 sf green with bunker in the middle and another along the side, rightfully named the "Donut"⬇️
It’s @HailStateFB kickoff weekend & the 1 wk old sprigs on the two new greens of our newly-redesigned short game facility for @HailStateWG and @HailStateMG at @MossyOakGolf are starting to jump! Exterior areas, the other bunker & sod should be done in the next 2 wks! #HailState
Wet and muddy day for my site visit to False River today. I forgot to take pictures, so I thought I'd share the preview video that @golfgraffix made for us a couple of months ago instead. Enjoy!
I've seen "Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation" at least 20-25 times (not hyperbole), but tonight is the first time I've noticed Solomon Lane sitting in the other listening room at the beginning of the London record store scene after the opening credits... 🫤
I [heard first, then] saw a pileated woodpecker in an old oak tree in our yard this week and it reminded me of this tweet from '21. The one in our yard hadn't damaged the tree, but was huge--the size of a large crow. They're cool birds, but they can wreck some wood in a hurry. 🤔