Snacks are key, I think you'll agree. Dot's Homestyle Pretzels ... are you kidding me? Dot's. Get lots. I think there are three full bags and remnants of another in our snack bin. In any snack-shopping story, excess = success, and vice versa. We were at our local grocery emporium and came … [Read more...]
Off Course
Sports and arts, stories and images of the world that edges on our golf courses.
The street that time forgot
The dog shits more than he eats, I mean volume-wise, which is a puzzlement to me. I like all my bio/medical questions to be answered by Dr. Fauci these days, and while this one might be out of his particular area of specialty and off the subject at hand, I think I'll send it in to the next town hall … [Read more...]
There’s no next-best thing
We begin at the top when we start in to list the global sporting championships compromised by COVID-19. It's no joking matter, so we speak in hushed tones about postponement of the Bent Shaft Classic and lesser world events. It's not a tragedy. It's just a golf tournament. But what will we do with … [Read more...]
Day 1: Goofy again at the Prez Cup
The Internationals' unprecedented 4-1 lead after Day One of the Presidents Cup should have been no surprise, given the severe competitive disadvantage faced by our boys. Really with the white pants? If cringing made a sound, you’d be hearing it from the famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion … [Read more...]
This week in golf and culture
Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28, 2019: On which we appreciate golf and its large place in our lives, notwithstanding that it rips our guts out and makes us drink and takes us away for hours and days from our loving families. We know what you’re thinking, and no, this day is for family time … … [Read more...]
Monday Mess: Labor edition
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...]
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...]
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