Labor Day, 2019, and the only real work I have to do today is walk the d-o-g in the early-morning f-o-g and the only work he has to do is push out the shit for me to find in the Pampas grass in front of the building across the street from the house where I live with the girls and all the other … [Read more...]
Off Course
Sports and arts, stories and images of the world that edges on our golf courses.
Fleetwood, of a fashion
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...]
By its whiskey be told
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...]
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...]
This damn game 10
Dawn Patrol, first of the season, at the Golf Course in the Valley of the Shadow of the Brewery, alone with my thoughts, too too alone … Sing with me, won’t you? Muscle memory, dim in corners of my mindMisty sprinkler-spattered memories, like, dang …Really? All those lessons?All we spent on … [Read more...]
Bored to tears
HOUSTON, Texas -- The way I see it about living with acute leukemia is there's nothing good about it. Not a fucking thing. I can run to the nurses' station and ascertain why it takes so long to get back when the robo-beeping from the kink in the IV tube is driving him insane. I can carry a … [Read more...]
Easy choices
NEW ORLEANS, Monday – If you want full honesty on up in here, I was looking for Coop’s Place when I came to Gallier’s, and even after walking in I wasn’t set on staying. But I did, and when the grilled oyster appetizer arrived I regretted I wasn’t with at least one other human to share the heaping … [Read more...]
Heartbreaker to the end
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...]
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...]
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