When I was sports editor of The Courier-Journal, I tried to cover the U.S. Open golf tournament every year. I did it mainly because I believe Louisville and southern Indiana is a golf hotbed. Of course, it helped that I loved to play the game, one of Dan Jenkins “dogged victims of inexorable fate.”
So I […]

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The final day of the 2008 Masters golf tournament was a simple story: the South African kid didn’t choke and the Tiger didn’t charge. Period. Everything else went pretty much as Bobby Jones and the golfing gods might have planned it.
The Sunday pressure grabbed guys like Steve Flesch and Paul Casey right […]

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – It has been the sort of Masters where the weather has been different every day, leading to different playing conditions, and where the leaders, through 54 holes, have played steady, sometimes spectacular golf, that’s worthy of the Hogans and Sneads and Palmers who made this place a holy shrine to the most […]

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Welcome to the first Billy Reed Sports Poll, which will be conducted regularly on an informal basis to gauge the sentiments of local fans about personalities and issues. The results will be published when we get a minimum of 25 responses.
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The new champion seems charming enough, especially for a thick, beefy guy who looks as if he could have been an extra on “The Sopranos.” He attacks the ball, much as Palmer did in his prime, instead of finessing it. In other words, he seems like a Pittsburgh sort of guy

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Sometimes Brewer, who was known to his friends as “Junior,” would get up at dawn and play before the first foursome of the day arrived. After dark, he sometimes would drive his car up to the putting green and practice with the headlights providing illumination.

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“We appreciate Tom Musselman and his family for what they have meant to the university and the community,” said Vice President of Athletics Tom Jurich

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Can’t play? Volunteers Needed For Event in Louisville June 22-July 7

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Everybody loves to complain that our kids don’t have any heroes or role models. Well, they do. His name is Tiger Woods

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The better she began hitting the ball, the more she was able to lose herself in the game. It was golf as therapy and it worked.

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