https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/blog daily 0.75 2019-11-11 https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/blog/getting-ben-doyle-to-smile-revisiting monthly 0.5 2019-11-11 https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/blog/category/NYC monthly 0.5 https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/blog/category/Streets monthly 0.5 https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/new-cover-page daily 0.75 2019-11-07 https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-04-26 https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/top daily 1.0 2021-01-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3826276ce96b4a79655ee1/1580738094017/CoverWBlurb.png Home - Golf’s Holy War: A Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science (Simon & Schuster, May 2020) The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations displace traditional philosophies, the golfing community has splintered into two deeply combative factions: the old-school teachers and players who believe in feel, artistry, and imagination, and the technical-minded who want to remake the game around data—attack angles, spin rotation, ball speed, and more. In Golf’s Holy War, Brett Cyrgalis takes readers inside the heated clash playing out from weekend hackers to Tiger Woods. Read More https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c16d97e60f17202e8e59c/1580996322797/AuthorPhoto.jpg Home - About Brett Cyrgalis Brett Cyrgalis is a veteran sports writer who worked for the New York Post for 14 years, covering almost all major sporting events from the Stanley Cup final to the U.S. Opens in golf and tennis. His work has also appeared in the New York Times and Golf Digest, among other publications. He is an accomplished golfer and lives on Long Island. https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/golfs-holy-war daily 0.75 2020-05-11 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c24477e60f17202eb2a68/1580999767360/BookshelfLineEdit.jpg Golf's Holy War - Select Bibliography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb557a4c42e012bbf34ca22/1588942778329/BabeRuthThePost.jpg Golf's Holy War - Adapted excerpt from New York Post As golf became a more quantifiable game, a strange word emerged into the lexicon: own. Tiger Woods famously said that only two players in the history of the game owned their swings — Ben Hogan and Moe Norman. But how can a person own a motion? The connotation is of an ingrained and unbreakable confidence in mechanics. It is the reaching of the point where no outside influence — say, a coach — is needed. And yet in this age of science and technology, which took a huge jump forward after Woods won his first major championship as a professional at the 1997 Masters, the golf swing evolved from being thought of as a malleable part of each person’s nature, to being envisioned as an entirely blank canvas. Golfers became programmable machines, and their hardware and their outside programmer — the coach — were considered the largest determinants of their success. Amazing how just one word entering the lexicon can speak volumes. Even more amazing how that mind-set began — with one of the best baseball players ever. KEEP READING HERE… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb558a851a7e11041b80a8a/1588943039899/Newspapers.jpg Golf's Holy War - Adapted Excerpts https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb97001c673416ea8a4a804/1589211145022/IMG_1929.jpg Golf's Holy War - Adapted essay for GOLF.com Being Tiger Woods’ coach always held the mantle as the most important and distinguished instructor in golf. So when Sean Foley held that title in 2012, he gave a presentation to the Illinois PGA at a sleek convention hall outside Chicago. Joining Foley on stage was James Leitz, a lumbering man of Creole sensibilities, living his whole life hard against Lake Pontchartrain. Foley had called Leitz out of the blue less than a year earlier, having seen a video on YouTube where Letiz explained the dense idea of the “D plane.” It helped to understand complex ball-flights laws, like why the divots always went left and the balls went straight when a young Foley would go set up camp behind the short par-3 15th hole at Glen Abbey during the Canadian Open. These laws had come to the forefront with the advent of omnipresent TrackMan machines, and one sat in Leitz’s garage hitting bay back at Pinewood Country Club in Slidell, Louisiana, under his desk that was piled high with four computer monitors and every other assortment of technology one could imagine. “If someone hit it,” Leitz said, “I’d cry.” KEEP READING HERE… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c17c9c39b5d7009c0230d/1588942365950/CoverWBlurb.jpg Golf's Holy War - Golf’s Holy War: A Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb5599ad7c53419e85cae06/1588943268089/HoganGolfDigest.jpg Golf's Holy War - Adapted Essay for Golf Digest The story goes that Ben Hogan had a “secret.” In 1953, Hogan agreed to be interviewed for an article in a three-year-old magazine called Golf Digest. This was his first telling of the “secret,” a twenty-minute practice routine he did every morning. “With his feet close together, the Little Man clamps his arms tight against his stomach [and] starts a short swing of a few inches, arms still close,” wrote the author, Lawrence Robinson. “Then he gradually lengthens the backswing a foot at a time. He does this for twenty minutes each day until he is taking a full swing, all the while from the close-to-the-body position.” From there, the “secrets” kept coming. KEEP READING HERE… https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/other-work daily 0.75 2020-02-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c261a44365f5cf9bbd327/1581000226923/KermitTyping.gif Other Work - NHL, golf, and other assorted coverage I cover the NHL (mostly the Rangers) on a daily basis, with a web-focused national column, The Backcheck, on Fridays during the season. The summer coverage includes golf, tennis, and other assorted assignments. All of it from me, found here: New York Post https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c286e12b6646eca7c6765/1581000840715/PodPicture.jpeg Other Work - New York Post Rangers podcast A consistent contributor to the “Up in the Blue Seats” podcast from the New York Post, where we talk Rangers hockey and more. Listen here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c2251d1bbc319fe23875f/1580999255312/BrettBunker.jpg Other Work - Travel: A trip through Scotland’s best A journal of a trip through Scotland, with golf and life in places like St. Andrews, Carnoustie, and Prestwick. Golf Guides USA https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/about daily 0.75 2021-01-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c2a6762caf24d0f54fc88/1581001806905/AuthorPhoto.jpg About Brett Cyrgalis is a veteran sports writer who worked for the New York Post for 14 years, covering almost all major sporting events from the Stanley Cup final to the U.S. Opens in golf and tennis. His work has also appeared in the New York Times and Golf Digest, among other publications. He is an accomplished golfer and lives on Long Island. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5e3c2bda5cba0f640eb7890c/1581001784105/CypressBack.jpeg About Tried to a cut a little 3-wood, went long left into the water. Hit a 2-iron on the front of the green, two-putted for a terrifically satisfying double. (2019) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5ea5df90ccd2820f98730162/1587929105202/BrettBunker.jpg About Who knew you could get in Shell Bunker playing The Eden? (2012) https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/virtual-book-tour daily 0.75 2020-04-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5ea5da94ccd2820f98720d4b/1587927706691/BookTalkFlyerGeneral2.jpg Book Tour - The Virtual Book Tour! It’s a strange new world out there, where online meetings are becoming more and more common. With golf clubs and companies looking for some way to engage their membership and customers, what a better way to come together that with an online book talk! With sign up, get a book mailed to you, plus an invitation to a private (or public) video call where the author gives a presentation, reads an excerpt from the book, and does a limitless — gulp! — Q&A. All details are taken care of, from setting up the video call, to ordering the books, to distribution — even promotion! Just send out an email to members/customers, and watch as everyone comes together over a good book and their shared passion for golf. What started as a fun evening with a single “virtual book talk” for the venerable Outpost Club back in April is now turning into a full-fledged “virtual book tour.” Join the fun! For for more information, email: brett.cyrgalis@gmail.com https://www.brettcyrgalis.com/app daily 0.75 2020-11-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb06e785e08d62a198f2ea7/1588620948509/GDPod.jpg Appearances - Golf Digest Podcast In between practicing their short games, Alex Myers, Sam Weinman and Daniel Rapaport discuss the upcoming TaylorMade Driving Relief charity golf match at Seminole featuring Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Matthew Wolff and Rickie Fowler. Also, author Brett Cyrgalis talks to Golf Digest about his new book Golf’s Holy War and discusses Tiger’s duality and why courses have returned to a “minimalist” design. Click here to listen, click here to read the excerpt. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb067c7a628653343d4749c/1588619219281/BandonWide.jpg Appearances - Podcasts, etc. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb54dfc51a7e11041b688d2/1588940306024/BrettBunker.jpg Appearances - Television, etc. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb06e054b525e14b5c343ef/1588620831181/ShackShowPod.jpg Appearances - Geoff Shackelford Podcast In episode 9 of the Shack Show, author and sports writer in the New York Post, Brett Cyrgalis, joins Geoff Shackelford to discuss the amount of science and analytics that's overwhelmed the game of golf. Brett also shares how he approached his book releasing on May 5th called: GOLF'S HOLY WAR: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science. Click here to listen! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb07036e12cdc068a3699bb/1588621374423/TrapDrawPod.jpg Appearances - The Trap Draw Podcast You're invited into the Reading Room for a conversation between Randy and New York Post sportswriter Brett Cyrgalis on his new book, "Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science". The two discuss Brett's background in writing and in golf before diving into a conversation about the book and its contents. Enjoy! Click here to listen! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5fbd2b7d69dfec4f8d105e37/1606232965315/IntoImpossible.jpg Appearances - Into the Impossible with Dr. Brian Keating What a blast it was to talk to Dr. Brian Keating, an experimental astrophysicist at UC San Diego. He and his son just took up golf, and his golf-crazed brother sent him my book. We had a great chat, even delving into one of my newfound hobbies — physics! Click here to listen! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb06f2b90260f68ea8e731d/1588621115572/PerfectNumberPod.jpg Appearances - The Perfect Number Podcast Golf opens itself up for debate and contradiction more than any sport. For every purist longing for the 1920's and hickory shafts, there is a grip-it-and-rip-it modern player running to his Trackman. The duality of the sport gives it great beauty and great conflict. Brett Cyrgalis set out to tell the history of that rift, how golf got technical and bridge the gap between nostalgia and modernism. Listen to Part 1 of the chat with Will Haskett here! Listen to Part 2 of the chat here! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc2d6e9d932db00a93c0286/t/5eb06eb14b525e14b5c376dd/1588620981866/SCGSPod.jpg Appearances - Silver Club Golfing Society Podcast Is the game of golf an art or a science? This SCGS Podcast searches for that answer with Brett Cyrgalis, NY Post writer and author of a highly touted book, "Golf's Holy War" debuting today, May 5. Cyrgalis, an excellent player in his own right, tries to make sense in both sides of the argument of how golf has transformed over the years through technology. Click here to listen.