During the five years from 1978 to 1983, the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Tournament took place each year at Onion Creek Country Club in Austin, Texas…..as the tournament served at the inaugural golf tournament on the PGA Seniors Tour….for this was something that our Bone Daddy, the original Sportsphile, looked forward too each year…..partly…
Bob Tway is an American professional golfer….who has won numerous tournaments including eight PGA Tour victories…..as he spent 25 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 1986–87. After turning pro in 1981, he joined the PGA Tour in 1985….then in 1986, he was named PGA Player of the Year after finishing the season with four victories…
Brian Boitano won the 1985 United States Figure Skating Championships….which was the first of his four titles….while at the first World Championships of the post-Hamilton era in 1985….that is when USSR Alexander Fadeev won….with CAN Brian Orser finishing 2nd….and Boitano 3rd….who had injured tendons in his right ankle a few weeks before the 1986 U.S. Championships….but went on to win his second national…
As we have written before…..we here at ImaSportsphile responsible for the posts on our site, have done enough different posts with Augusta National Golf Club Chairman Hord Hardin either doing interviews of dang near most all of the winners in the Butler Cabin at Augusta….who also got their green jacket after Mr. Hardin’s….as seen in…
Every now and then, we get a video to post that we really don’t know what to write about….and this video seen herewith was one of those…..but after watching it five times while trying to find a point of reference worthy of commenting on….we finally found it…. albeit is a bit obtuse…..but we welcome any…
D. A. Weibring, is an American professional golfer….who has won numerous tournaments including won five PGA Tour events….with his first coming at the 1979 at Quad Cities…. which is an event he won three times…..as his last Tour victory was at the Canon Greater Hartford Open in 1996. Weibring had five top-10 finishes in major championships….with two being at the PGA Championship….and one…
Hord Hardin (January 3, 1912 – August 5, 1996) was the President of the United States Golf Association (USGA) from 1968 to 1969….who then became Chairman of the Masters Tournament and the Augusta National Golf Club from 1980 to 1991. Earlier in his career he worked as a lawyer…..while also competing in six U.S. Amateurs Tournaments between 1953 and 1963….and was instrumental in the relocation of the Bellerive Country…
Want to improve your golf game!?!…..just click on the video below….and receive the best instruction video on how to hit four different shots around the green while in long grass….as each shot is for different reasons of what you want to do on each particular location that your ball is in relationship to the contour…
We at ImaSportsphile just love the videos that provide highlights of “a walk down memory lane” for an event as notable as the Masters Golf Tournament….cuz so many great moments in golf and legendary golfers are featured in such videos….even if it is just one minute and a half stroll…..as seen in this CBS special…