Greg Stoda in the Palm Beach Post has written a column contrasing Tom Kite—perhaps the oldest regular on the PGA Tour and Kevin Na—the youngest.

Greg writes:

The Na vs. Kite comparison is the kind of thing that makes golf wonderful. It also happens to be the kind of thing that makes golf odd at the highest level…

...  Na, who already has earned $804,105 this season, knows nothing other than huge purses from which to collect loot. Here’s how ancient Kite is: The PGA Tour’s total purse his first full season in 1973 was a couple of million dollars less than what Vijay Singh won all by his lonesome last year.

Who really knows what’s going to happen with the World Golf Rankings? Nearly everything I read is contradictory. If x plays here and finishes in y place, then he will rise two spots in the rankings. Or maybe not.

Programmer/Analyst Keith Lowe has written an article on what could happen to the top 50 over the next four weeks.

I ran across Mingay Gofl while wandering around the internet. He’s a golf course architect who is now running a neat little website. Here’s an extract from his bio:

Jeff Mingay has worked in affiliation with fellow Canadian golf architect Rod Whitman since 2001 – most notably on the design and construction of Blackhawk Golf Club in suburban Edmonton, Alberta, which was awarded 2nd place in Golf Digest magazine’s Best New Canadian course category for 2004. Blackhawk GC was also named one of the top-10 Best New International Courses for the World by The Golfer magazine.

A keen student of the history of golf and course architecture, Jeff participates in every aspect of golf course design and construction - including featuring shaping. He has traveled extensively to study the world’s best courses, and has addressed several groups, including the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association, on the subject of golf architecture.

While the website is primarily to promote his business (I, unfortunately, do not have the money to need his services), there also are articels that he has written on golf course architecture (a subject which has long fascinated me).

Callaway’s got some of the hottest new products on the market right now. So that means that some of last year’s products are going to be available at much lower prices. Callaway runs an operation that I think more major manufacturers ought to imitate: Callaway Golf Pre-Owned

I guess its kind of like the new trend in used cars—new car dealers offering “certified pre-owned” automobiles instead of “used” cars.

Golf Northwest is a golf blog written by the 21-year-old captain of Pacific University’s Varsity Golf Team. It’s nice to get a view from a college golfer.