Tag Archives: Mark Calcavecchia
My Town: Mark Calcavecchia
Imagine being an aspiring baseball player who, instead of going to the local diamond to practice hitting, took BP every day at Yankee Stadium. Substitute golf for baseball, and that’s what Jeff Klauk experienced growing up in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Klauk’s father, Fred, was the superintendent at the TPC Sawgrass from 1986 until 2008, … Continue reading
Familiar Story
The shot wasn’t heard round the world, but the reverberations are still being felt some two decades later. From the right rough on the 16th hole at the TPC-Eagle Trace in Coral Springs, Fl., 26-year-old Mark Calcavecchia “gashed a shot out of the hay” with his Ping Eye 2 8-iron that landed on a peninsula … Continue reading