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Minnehaha explained

September 18, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Minnehaha Country Club in South Dakota, which is said to be south of North Dakota, is the site of this weekend's Sanford Invitational for the older gentlemen of the Champions Tour. The name of the club derives, we believe, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha," which is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Champions Tour, Global Golf Calendar, Hiawatha, Longfellow, LPGA, Minnehaha, PGA Tour

Participation edition

September 12, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The best players in women's golf, which maybe almost not quite passes the straight-face test, are in Scotland this weekend for a little exhibition called the Solheim Cup. The best players in men's golf, which I couldn't say with a straight face if it was paralyzed, flat turned to plaster, are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Global Golf Calendar, Grey Goatee Golf Association, LPGA

Wait for it …

August 30, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The next big thing in big-time men's golf is the Presidents Cup in December, and boy oh boy our boys are eager to win one for the prez in Australia, right there where people remember how our hero alienated the Aussie prime minister over the telephone, butt-dialed him or something, then got pissy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar, LPGA, lPresidents Cup, PGA Tour, Solheim Cup

Maj. Major edition

July 22, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

In the limitless wisdom of the schedulers of the big-time professional golf tours, it must have seemed like a good idea to somebody to schedule, this week, a Champions Tour major against an LPGA major. It flat guarantees that constituents of neither will pay attention to the other, which is okay, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar

Fleetwood, of a fashion

July 21, 2019 By Bart Potter 1 Comment

We watch, from a safe distance, as the famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion Committee goes about its work. There is much at stake: nothing less, today, than the Champion Dresser of the Year. We wonder, right along with the rest of you, about the committee and its members and their deliberations … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Alfred E. Neuman, Champion Dresser of the Year, Tommy Fleetwood

By its whiskey be told

July 21, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: bushmills, Champion Golfer of the Year, Jameson, Royal Portrush, Shane Lowry, The Sexton single malt, Tullamore Dew

Lowry by the numbers

July 19, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

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Lowry lights it up

July 19, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: NewsTagged With: Shane Lowry, The Open Championship

World fashion news

July 19, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Erik Van Rooyen, Grey Goatee Fashion Committee, J.B. Holmes, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry, Sir Nick Faldo, The Open Championship

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

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