I learned about it by text message in the afternoon of a sad day in American history. I got it from my Roadie compadre Steve, who I know was sorry to be the one to break it to me. In the same cycle as the Las Vegas massacre, the death of Tom Petty was not the news of the day. He was 66, which is … [Read more...]
Off Course
Sports and arts, stories and images of the world that edges on our golf courses.
Any major dude will tell you
I had a glimmer something was wrong when I tried to reach the Grey Goatee Research Geeks with a mundane question about golf, of all things. Closed. Shut. No answer. While I wasn't expecting cheerful service, I was surprised by the total silence. It was Barry who told me, after a round of golf, … [Read more...]
The back way in
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- I left The Carson Cigar Company with a buzz in my brain and gratitude in my heart for a good martini and the bartender who built it, and it's no small thing to get all that and smoke a cigar, too, in one darkly well-lit place during normal business hours. It's impossible, … [Read more...]
This damn game: Masters Sunday edition
It's sort of like a cynical grownup version of hoops in the driveway and HE SHOOTS HE SCOOOORES!! We're just four old guys playing golf with no stakes whatsoever and all we've been doing for three days before we went to an actual golf course to play is watch the Masters on our … [Read more...]
News you can use
I have all the tools, and they're at my disposal right now when it means the most. I'm fully healthy, and I've worked hard to get here. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to do what needs to be done. I'm a force inside, and one thing I've learned about myself, in my long career, is I'm not as … [Read more...]
The Four: Room for two more
I don't know if these guys even play golf, but since my Dream Foursome is a theoretical construct, mathematically and logistically implausible, it doesn't really matter, does it. They would be good company for four-or-so hours on a sunny afternoon on a muni in Mukilteo or in the dankest … [Read more...]
The Foursome: Expandable, but not to just anyone
One person who won't have a spot in my Dream Foursome, infinitely expandable as it might be, is Kellyanne Conway. There are good and obvious reasons why not, the biggest being she's smug and insufferable and the apologist for the biggest dickhead in American presidential history. She also … [Read more...]
Check-in: Craig Foster
There's been some news in the news lately, you might have noticed. Like, we had an election, and I could stop right there, but then there's the Tiger Woods re-entry into competitive golf, and it got me thinking I needed somebody to tell me how I ought to be thinking about what I'm thinking … [Read more...]
A post in which we are not cynical
It felt so good, so positive, so un-political, and while this whole week I’ve felt like crying every day, this day it felt like the tears were for good reasons, not because an idiot racist hater was elected president of the country I live in. On Saturday afternoon I went to watch a high school … [Read more...]
An American in Calgary
At some point all the nastiness will be over and we’ll be glad of it, at least until the day we’ll wish it was just politics again. Because the election won’t end well, we know that, and too soon will come the actual governing, and we'll have to live with who we got, and that can only mean cruel … [Read more...]
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