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A Rrroyal ace

July 18, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Emiliano Grillo, hole-in-one, The Open Championship

Just a game of golf

July 18, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Darren Clarke, Royal Portrush, The Open Championship

The Open Championship: We know why (and who)

July 17, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Gary Woodland, Global Golf Calendar; PGA Tour; LPGA Tour; Champions Tour, Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Royal Portrush, The Open Championship, Tiger Woods, Xander Schauffele

Howl freely

July 10, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Global Golf Calendar; PGA Tour; LPGA Tour; Champions Tour, Grey Goatee Golf Association, Howl at the Canal

Prelapsarianism

June 14, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Pebble Beach, The Masters, U.S. Open, Webster's Unabridged

The calendar says PGA

May 15, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: PGA Championship, Steve Stricker

Entrapped epiglottis edition

May 3, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar, Grey Goatee Golf Association, Kentucky Derby, LPGA, PGA Tour

Hole locution

April 17, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar; PGA Tour; LPGA Tour; Champions Tour, KEvin Durant, LOTTE Championship, LPGA, RBC Heritage

Green days

April 10, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Augusta National, Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Patrick Reed, The Masters

Of galleries and geese

April 3, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Annika Sorenstam, Capitol City Golf club, Grey Goatee Golf Association, Henrik Stenson, LPGA, Pernilla Lindberg, PGA Tour

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