The best way to think about the difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is not in religious or geopolitical terms, fraught as they are, nor even in terms of golf. As Shane Lowry said, “Everyone knows we’re all one country when it comes to golf.” We wouldn’t argue with the … [Read more...]
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Lowry by the numbers
8:33 a.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time Shane Lowry carries 102 kg, which is roundabout 225 ell bees sculpted in a kind of way on his 1.85-meter frame, The ne'er-do-wells in the Grey Goatee Research cell shared these vital statistics about the ath-a-lete who is leading The Open Championship. We … [Read more...]
Lowry lights it up
7:32 a.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time You'd be having fun, too, if you'd planted five birdies in a front-nine 31 and held the outright lead halfway through a Friday at The Open Championship. So why not, like Shane Lowry, make birdie on 10, too? His 40-footer on the rolling green bumped him to … [Read more...]
World fashion news
6:38 a.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time Our famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion Committee has not always endorsed the sartorial selections of Britisher Justin Rose, but so far he's wearing well the favorite's jacket we draped on his narrow shoulders this week for The Open Championship. Rose is 4-under … [Read more...]
A Rrroyal ace
7:17 a.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time Emiliano Grillo’s hole-in-one today on No. 13 at Royal Portrush is not the first time the Argentinian has come to the attention of the Great Grey Nation in a major. Back in 2016, when Grillo briefly led the PGA Championship on its second day only to lose the … [Read more...]
Just a game of golf
5:44 a.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time The opening tee shot of The Open at Royal Portrush belonged to the 2011 Champion Golfer of the Year, a 50-year-old Northern Irishman swinging around the tournament’s most impressive belly. Darren Clarke’s drive drew nicely onto the right edge of the fairway, … [Read more...]
The Open Championship: We know why (and who)
Herewith the reasons these players who could win The Open Championship will not win The Open Championship: Brooks Koepka: Too obvious Patrick Cantlay: Too who? Phil Mickelson: Too weak, too wan Patrick Reed: Too green Tiger Woods: Too soon Bryson DeChambeau: Too smart Dustin Johnson: Too … [Read more...]
Howl freely
The 3GA Tour's midsummer major, a little somethin' we call the Howl at the Canal, is your ticket to bona fide family entertainment in the heart of Mason County USA. The 14th annual debauch at Alderbrook Golf and Yacht will test the upper limits of the sound ordinance, if they have one, in lovely … [Read more...]
Prelapsarianism
Friday, June 14, 2019 Webster's Un let me down PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Damn New Yorker writers. I sat there in the U.S. Open media center this morning reading a story about Augusta National Golf Club and its relentless artifice, and I couldn't get past "prelapsarian." I was on the grounds … [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...]
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