Ron Green Jr.

Charlotte

Senior Writer at Global Golf Post

I write about golf for Global Golf Post and spend most of my days watching golfers who are far better than me.

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Articles

Ridley on board with ball rollback, pace initiatives

2 weeks ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA | Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley had the unusual task of following himself Wednesday morning in his annual media address. On Monday, Ridley presented a progress report on the work being done at Augusta Municipal Golf Course, known to locals as the Patch, which will include a new Tiger Woods-designed short course and the creation of a TGR Learning Lab for area students.
The sun will soon rise on the Masters

2 weeks ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

The big oak tree at sunrise before a pratice round for the 2025 Masters Charles Laberge, Courtesy Augusta NationalAUGUSTA, GEORGIA | While the daddies and their children spent Wednesday afternoon playing par-3 golf for the family scrapbook, and thousands gathered to watch between bites of their $1.50 sandwiches, the Masters needed just one more thing. Another sunrise. Everyone has put their work in. Everyone has a plan for Augusta National’s equation.
LIV Golf’s Scott O’Neil: Being different is OK

3 weeks ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

Scott O’Neil became CEO of LIV Golf on Jan. 15, succeeding Greg Norman, who had helped launch the aggressive and landscape-altering new league. While Norman came with Hall of Fame golf credentials, a long history of business interests and a sometimes combative personality, O’Neil brings more than 25 years working with major sports, entertainment and investment properties.
Masters narrative starts with Rory and Scottie

3 weeks ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

The Masters discussion seems to start and end with Rory McIlroy (left) and Scottie Scheffler. Richard Heathcote, Getty ImagesDuring a conference call with media members Monday afternoon to preview the upcoming Masters Tournament, ESPN analysts Curtis Strange and Andy North – both of whom won a pair of U.S. Open trophies – found themselves answering questions about the same two players. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
TGL expands boundaries and exceeds expectations

4 weeks ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

Whether you are one of the many fans of TGL or you’re reluctant to buy into the new-age concept of simulator golf in an indoor arena, it’s hard to deny that the new league saved its best for last. If the TGL had everything but its instant classic moment, it got that Tuesday night when Billy Horschel – somehow it seemed fitting that it was the hyper-effusive Horschel – holed a twisting downhill putt to win the SoFi Cup for his Atlanta Drive team.
Smooth operator

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Dan Loman

Having been in the business of producing golf tournaments and refining how professional events operate for close to four decades, Hollis Cavner understands the inevitable ebb and flow of the PGA Tour’s evolving business model. As CEO of Florida-based Pro Links Sports, which operates or consults on six events on the big tour and PGA Tour Champions including this week’s Valspar Championship, Cavner and his group have found the potential challenge of a fractured game to be a learning opportunity.
McIlroy shows the heart, and the art, of a master

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

As playoffs go, particularly those of the weather-delayed, three-hole variety, Rory McIlroy’s quick takedown of J.J. Spaun Monday morning to win the Players Championship was about as anticlimactic as they come. Three windblown holes, one critical mistake by Spaun on the frightening par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass and the deed was done.
Morikawa in both the hunt and the hot seat

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA | Collin Morikawa had something to say Friday afternoon – again – about what he didn’t say last Sunday after Russell Henley outdueled him to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Morikawa did not speak to the media in the immediate aftermath of the tournament at Bay Hill, prompting criticism in all the familiar places.
Spieth seeks to regain, sustain artistic sparkle

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA | Had the great American artist Jackson Pollock been a golfer, his name might have been Jordan Spieth. Pollock is known for his abstract expressionist paintings in which he would pour paint onto a canvas and, by using his fingers or something other than a brush along with his genius, create chaotic and captivating works that define his rare brilliance. That’s how Spieth tends to play golf, the antithesis of the paint-by-numbers approach that can go a long way.
Attitude, preparation fuel Scheffler’s success

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Jeff Barr

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA | Beyond the numbers that define Scottie Scheffler’s dominance of the PGA Tour in recent years – his seven official wins last year, his two Masters victories in three years, his 95 consecutive weeks ranked No. 1 and 130 weeks total atop the world ranking (fourth most all-time) – there is something more that speaks to his place in the game.