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Moving Day Wrap Up

Every Saturday on t he PGA Tour is known as moving day, and it lived up to it’s name yesterday. David Toms (2001 PGA Champ) and Phil Mickelson (2005 PGA Champ) both made huge moves to put themselves into contention to hoist their second Wanamaker Trophy.  Toms and Mickelson both played in the final group together in 2001, with Toms being victorious here...

Round 2 – More Questions Than Answers

Friday’s 2nd round of the 2011 PGA Championship left many people, fans and media alike, with too many questions and not enough answers. First off, the cut was +4 (144) with 75 players making the cut, one of those players is a PGA Club Professional, Mike Small, head golf coach at the University of Illinois.  Mike is the only CP out of 20 to make the...

Round 1 Is In the Books

Thursday was, needless to say, a very, very long day.  On top of being at the tournament for 12 hours, I logged 11.5 miles on foot, while carrying about 30 pounds of camera gear.  However, after looking through the images I captured today, it was a total win. Those of you in the golf world know that the 2001 PGA Championship was held here at Atlanta Athletic...

Halfway Though Day 1

Halfway Though Day 1

Aug 11, 2011

Here is a quick look at where I will be spending the majority of my time at AAC, besides being on the course itself.  The media center seats 250 plus change.  Every work station has it’s own power strip and enough room to stack the piles of transcripts we get throughout the day of the players’ press conferences. Internet access is now a necessity...

Drive for show….

Sorry about the lack of update yesterday.  From Benton to John’s Creek is about 500 miles, which is a long way no matter how you add it up.  We made if safely to the Hyatt Place Atlanta-Duluth/John’s Creek at about 5:30 EST; the sad part about that time is we spent about 90 minutes in traffic once we made it into Fulton County, GA. We got checked...