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Day 3: My pronouns

December 13, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Been watching the Presidents Cup flow by on my television set with the sound down, a lot of the time. Our alternative soundtrack today is brought to you by Boz Scaggs's Out of the Blues. Favorite line, from "I've Just Got to Know": I think you want me for conveniency / If I'm wrong please tell me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Presidents Cup, Tiger Woods

Day 2: And then another

December 12, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The text came in from the brother in America's heartland: "Am I hallucinating or did we just make a putt?" We, baby, is the Americans, baby, and when Patrick Cantlay rolled one in from 14 feet on 18 to win a full point for the RW&B, we were on the way back. You can't have momentum until you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Presidents Cup, Rickie Fowler, Tiger Woods

Day 1: Goofy again at the Prez Cup

December 11, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Patrick Reed, Presidents Cup

This week in golf and culture

November 28, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, Road Holes, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar

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

Monday Mess: Labor edition

September 2, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: shit, slug, Trump, turd.

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

Do not do the math

August 24, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

We won't be testing the algorithms and paroxysms and quadralytic equations supporting the new scoring system that will Sunday reward the winner of the FedEx Cup with a big fat check. These are $15 million calculations, and it hurts my head to think about 'em. To the fore comes Ryan … [Read more...]

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Day 1: Dunal institutions

August 9, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

FLORENCE, Ore. -- Bob Rannow hasn't been around Florence-area golf courses nearly as long as the ocean, you know, that one, which you can sniff on the breeze at his current place of work, Ocean Dunes Golf Links. Dude's only 50. The ocean is, like, a kabillion-and-fifty, but it's not talking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Road Holes, UncategorizedTagged With: Bob Rannow, Ocean Dunes Golf Links, Oregon coastal golf, Sandpines

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