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Never in April

November 13, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

AUGUSTA – It’s the best light in the imaginable universe, right now, near twilight, this sharp-shadowed clear-eyed November in Georgia. I’m not seeing it in person, nor are you, and even knowing what we know about all they do to be television-ready for the most famous golf tournament in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Augusta, The Masters

Slothism

November 7, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I vowed when I went to bed Tuesday and it looked bleak for our side that I would cut off all my friends who gloated at me when the jerk won and I would disengage from all politics and work hard for good in my community and be kinder to all living things and healthier in mind and body and, of course, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: nihilism

Finales

October 22, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Today, members of the sporting press will aim their popguns at the thousand new bunkers (it would seem) and resist distraction from grand new sightlines at the remodeled Sand Point Country Club in Seattle. The re-do was undertaken by David McLay Kidd, whose portfolio of golf architecture (Bandon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: David McLay Kidd, Northwest Golf Media Association, Sand Point

Young guns

October 15, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The Champions Tour got a goose of energy in this Covidially challenged season when Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson grew into their old-man pants. Els rolled in a 40-footer on 18 to win the SAS Championship in North Carolina this past Sunday for his second victory in 10 Champions starts in 2020, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Champions Tour, Ernie Els, PGA Tour Champions, Phil Mickelson

Golf in the new world

June 5, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

This article appeared first in the June issue of Pacific Northwest Golfer. Don't overthink it, was my sage advice, offered to the only person certain to ignore it in my group, and I was playing as a single. Don’t get caught up in the symbolism of every little ritual of this return to golf, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Bent Shaft Classic, Capitol City Golf club, COVID-19, Grey Goatee Goatee Golf Association, Tumwater Valley Golf Course

Essential recreation

May 6, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I don't think I've seen a magpie, nor would I know one if I heard one. Are they native to my part of Grey Goatee Nation? No idea. Doesn't matter. My boys, the sporting gentlemen of the 3GA, were chattering on like Heckle and Jeckle, giggling by text message just after securing reservations for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Bent Shaft Classic, Grey Goatee Golf Association, Grey Goatee Nation

Thoughts on Dot’s

April 19, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Snacks are essential, I think you'll agree. Dot's Homestyle Pretzels ... are you kidding me? I think there are three full bags and remnants of another in our snack bin. In any snack-shopping story, excess = success, and vice versa. We were at our local grocery emporium and came on a rack on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Cytokine Storms, Jeannette Catsoulis, tuchis

The street that time forgot

April 17, 2020 By Bart Potter 3 Comments

The dog shits more than he eats, I mean volume-wise, which is a puzzlement to me. I like all my bio/medical questions to be answered by Dr. Fauci these days, and while this one might be out of his particular area of specialty and off the subject at hand, I think I'll send it in to the next town hall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Dr. Fauci, Heroes in America, the street that time forgot

There’s no next-best thing

April 2, 2020 By Bart Potter 2 Comments

We begin at the top when we start in to list the global sporting championships compromised by COVID-19. It's no joking matter, so we speak in hushed tones about postponement of the Bent Shaft Classic and lesser world events. It's not a tragedy. It's just a golf tournament. But what will we do with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Bent Shaft Classic, COVID-19, Golf, Grey Goatee Golf Association, PGA Championship, The Masters, The Open Championship, U.S. Open

Pardon edition

February 19, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I'm the Commissar, which is all you or anyone needs to know about My fat regal ass and My divine right to spew My rancid guts out on the heads of the innocent and grant pardon to My friends in the next gasp. There is only One Commissar, so therefore I write The Rules of Being the Commissar, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar, Grey Goatee Golf Association

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