My expectations for John Cassidy aren't huge: I only want him to light the path to total health and well-being. As I know you know, that is wholly based on the state of my golf game. I started working with Dr. John in 2014. It's a project. He said back then: Teaching … [Read more...]
The Craft
In this corner of this space, we consider less often the people who play golf and more often the people who teach the game, tend the courses, build and care for the equipment, and otherwise work to support and encourage golfers playing golf.
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...]
The Nicklaus Nine
LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- One is a Northwest icon, universally respected by his fellow pros but not a household name in the greater world of golf. The other is Jack. When Ken Still called his friend Jack Nicklaus, a few years back, he had a simple message: Buddy, you gotta design a back nine for the … [Read more...]
Teacher’s Corner: Zdravko Barbic
GEARHART, Ore. -- His first name is Zdravko, which maybe you can pronounce, but he lets people off easy -- he's "Z" throughout coastal northern Oregon. Zdravko Barbic, 54, was born in Croatia in central Europe, moved to Southern California when he was 12, and now lives around here, where he is … [Read more...]
World History Tour, Day 3: Gearhart Golf Links
GEARHART, Ore. – It took 200 dump-truck loads to cart away the trees, uprooted so as not to leave stumps behind on the golf course. It looked like a war zone, they say, but the course never closed for a minute, even during the thick of it, and this week, more than a year and a half after the … [Read more...]
A last look at The Lone Fir Tree
It survived a working gravel and sand mine. It lived on through the abandoned site's conversion to a championship golf course. It's a Douglas fir tree, not very large or symmetrical, but now that the U.S. Open is here (and soon to leave), it makes No. 15 at Chambers Bay Golf Course the postcard … [Read more...]
‘A thinking golfer’s championship as well as a shotmaker’s?’
by Bart Potter UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – The early line on who will win the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay Golf Course is … Chambers Bay Golf Course. The world’s best players might leave the course in shreds – four days of play will tell – or leave the tournament in tears. Nobody is betting much on … [Read more...]
Masters Week: The price of perfection
I’d love to see Augusta National, and play it, and watch The Masters in person, but with today’s crazy-good electronics, it’s the major made for TV. Only one other golf tournament in the world – The (British) Open Championship – compares as a television spectacle. If Augusta had any blemishes, the … [Read more...]
The Firestorm Tour, Day Two: Gamble Sands unveiled
BREWSTER, Wash. -- It was a question David McLay Kidd was ready, maybe even eager, to answer. Yes, Gamble Sands is a true links golf course. "As a Scotsman, I have the right to defend it," said Kidd, architect of Gamble Sands Golf Course in Brewster, Wash. , the newest course in the … [Read more...]
Teacher’s Corner: Cassidy, Lesson 2
NEVER LET IT BE SAID this game is simple. John Cassidy, the teacher in this little drama, says often: “Golf is hard.” He makes it look so easy. Cassidy, of course, is not just Dr. John, teacher to the stars (and lowlife bloggers). He’s a player, in fact champion week before last against a … [Read more...]
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