Dawn Patrol, first of the season, at the Golf Course in the Valley of the Shadow of the Brewery, alone with my thoughts, too too alone … Sing with me, won’t you? Muscle memory, dim in corners of my mindMisty sprinkler-spattered memories, like, dang …Really? All those lessons?All we spent on … [Read more...]
The calendar says PGA
Monday, May 13 Steve Stricker looks so intelligent and authoritative in his American Family Insurance hat you won't notice he’s bald. Right now, he’s holding a five-stroke lead through 12 holes as pro golf’s over-50 boys play the final round of the Regions Tradition, washed away by rain … [Read more...]
Entrapped epiglottis edition
Omaha Beach was scratched from Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, meaning, among other things, that he won’t win the Triple Crown but might otherwise expect a decent career as an elite Thoroughbred racer before retiring to the barn to party like a stud pony. I know you or I, faced with the same life … [Read more...]
Hole locution
Kevin Durant said he was sorry this week after he was party to two double technicals and got himself ejected in a playoff loss to the Clippers … not sorry that he did it or how it hurt his team or offended anybody watching, just sorry, for himself, I guess, that he revealed his true self … [Read more...]
Tiger for the books
The injuries were major and maybe preventable, but if you ask me what knocked Tiger down was the fall from the haughty perch built on freakish control of every situation on and off the golf course. That’s what we thought, and how wrong we were. What do we think now that he’s won the Masters? I … [Read more...]
Green days
If it hadn't been for Patrick Reed being the actual defending champion, the Champions Dinner Tuesday at the Masters would have been green-jacketed business as usual. Reed isn't Augusta-friendly, so much -- kind of a dickhead, really -- and maybe that's why we like him around the Nation of Grey. … [Read more...]
Of galleries and geese
Pernilla Lindberg isn't big, at 5-foot-5, so she's no Big Swede out of Sweden, the Scandinavian country in Scandinavia, but she can claim a professional major on her resume, which puts her in the company of countrypersons Annika Sorenstam and Henrik Stenson, the original Big Swede. Lindberg is … [Read more...]
Kooch v. Kiz
5 p.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time It was Kisner over Kuchar in the final of the WGC match-play event in Austin, which I hope made you a pile of cash, perhaps to mitigate your losses when Michigan State beat Duke to go to the Final Four. Baseball note: Even with all the groovy new metrics imposed on … [Read more...]
X marks the winner
Match play continues this week with the big boys, and it's down to the Sweet 16 already. Chalk has prevailed, right down the brackets, with the top three seeds moving on in every region, like they knew what they were doing when they drew it up. They fucking didn't -- they got lucky -- and … [Read more...]
Scarecrow edition
The LPGA is playing this week at the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, the longest golf course name in the known world, which only means the LPGA has too many sponsors it's trying to appease. Maybe they're overthinking it. Maybe not. I like to think like my … [Read more...]
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