News and Views

by Steve Kashul - June 2008

The Golf Scene will be giving away great prizes in 2008. This includes a golf vacation for two to Maui, Hawaii! Get all the information by clicking the tab, “Win Great Prizes”.

Readers of this article also have the chance to “Play with the Pros” at the “Aloha Team Classic” in October which is taking place at a Private Exclusive Golf Club in Maui called “The King Kamehameha Golf Club”. More information is located on our home page of this website!

We’re also featuring Golf Scene podcasts; providing in-depth coverage of the national and local golf scene, as well as great interviews.

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Well I’m still getting over all that golf I watched over Father’s Day weekend and the day following. What a great U.S. Open it was! You had the feeling from round one that Tiger would be in the mix at the end but no one could have imagined Tiger’s heroics, especially with a bad knee, first to force a playoff and then win in sudden death on the 19th hole on Monday.

Two days later we come to learn that Tiger will miss the rest of the 2008 golf season because of the injured knee. It’s amazing to think that despite a torn ACL suffered in July of 2007, he still won multiple tournaments including two majors, the 2007 PGA Championship and the 2008 U.S. Open. We are very fortunate to be able to watch the greatest player to ever play the game of golf.

Are you now ready for Tiger withdrawal? While there’s no doubt that many of the PGA Tour players are thankful for the publicity that Tiger brings to the tour, along with the sponsors, many are relieved that they now have a better chance of winning tournaments in which Tiger would have played. On the other end of that spectrum are the tournament directors, sponsors and TV Networks, which will lose fan interest, and ratings because of Tiger’s lay off.