The phrase is deus ex machina. The meaning is fluid, as far as I can tell, but it seems in popular usage to be something unexpected that for no obvious reason makes sense of gibberish or substance of nothingness. Herewith golf, the simplest game. Its goal, its very essence, is simple, which … [Read more...]
The coefficient of Bryson
Look at the big brain on Bryson ... so large he needs the Hogan cap to hold it all in. It's frightening to us for whom too much thinking about any one thing in the greater world is hard work and, we're certain, will cause physical pain, which does not prevent us from thinking about our … [Read more...]
The reporter is an author
He sat the next tube over in the old Daily O newsroom, decades ago, before it was made over, then downsized, then abandoned. Pretty much every day, one or the other of us, John Dodge or I, would ask, roundabout the time it should have happened: "Did we publish?" Someday, sooner than we … [Read more...]
A most unusual week
We used to watch Tiger Woods and admire, respect and marvel, and we couldn't take our eyes off him. But did we like him? We've written here more than once that Woods is not a nice guy, and I for one have been okay with that. The aura was the man, the man was the aura. It wasn't like I would … [Read more...]
Rookie golfer of the year
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- Near to the home precincts of Grey Goatee Nation this week we have the Boeing Classic, a stop on the Champions Tour for old fuckers who still got game. Jerry Kelly is the defending champion at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge -- last year, as a senior circuit rookie, he got a … [Read more...]
Northern Ports postscript
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- First, we need to correct a misimpression we might have left you with. The Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is many things -- a week full of workshopping and jamming among teacher-musicians and earnest students, performances by really good players on multiple stages … [Read more...]
Day Three: Zen, and Then …
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- There are no judgments, my brothers and sisters, on the journey. That is, there is only what is, and what is, is. Our scorecard we forgot to remember, which is to say it and we achieved pure being and nothingness as we walked through Port Townsend Golf Club in tranquil … [Read more...]
Day Two: Wherein we discover
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- The front nine at Discovery Bay Golf Course looks like a couple guys got together, took a walk through the land and laid down a golf course. It was the early 1920s, and they weren't professional architects, and they did a damn good job. The back looks different. It … [Read more...]
Day One: The Ludlow leg
PORT LUDLOW, Wash. – The amenities are top-shelf, the on-course constructions – the cart paths and tee boxes and practice areas -- are well-thought-out and well-tended. And even with that, the word that comes to mind at Port Ludlow Golf Course is “rough.” Rough, as in nature in all its unruliness … [Read more...]
The Northern Ports Tour
... with a side of blues PORT HADLOCK, Wash. -- Rhythm is key in the golf swing, we hear, and it sure is for good blues musicians, but maybe not so much for appreciators of the art form, especially when they're drunk, which means the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival on Saturday, its … [Read more...]
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