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Of land and weather and pink-on-white jackets

July 16, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

4:33 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (12:33 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time)" ... the game is always about the land."I'll be up tomorrow at 3 a.m. (my time) to watch the whole damn thing, because it's Sunday at the Open Championship. Today, I let the DVR do the early shift, and I'm glad I did, because … [Read more...]

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Young Tom Lewis in the English evening

July 14, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

12:57 p.m. PDT (8:57 p.m. GMT) The factoid seemed too rich to be real ... it had to be concocted for TV. But there it was: the 20-year-old Englishman, paired with a certified golf legend and icon of this tournament ... and word comes that Young Tom Lewis is named after Old Tom Watson. … [Read more...]

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Missing a friend, in the time of the Tour

July 8, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I think about my friend on the “official” days of his life, the dates and anniversaries that we mark in the absence of the man himself. I think of him at odd times, too, and one of them is now. The guy was into the Tour. He knew the courses, the athletes, the equipment they used. He could talk … [Read more...]

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Gold Mountain Olympic: Just your everyday championship golf course

June 24, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

BREMERTON, Wash. – The roughs are long and sticky and will only get longer. The greens are fast, and might get faster. And while members and visiting players battle through – and maybe curse – the challenging setup at Gold Mountain’s Olympic Course, it’s all in the game plan as Gold Mountain … [Read more...]

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Golf goes on without Tiger … let me count the ways

June 15, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

There have always been young guns in golf, celebrating the perks of extreme youth and outlandish talent. It’s not hard to imagine the young Arnold Palmer and Champagne Tony Lema and Lee Trevino and Ernie Els (in a ragged chronology) partying well and hard and storming the gates of The Willard, a … [Read more...]

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A round with Bill Tindall

June 9, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Former Junior Amateur champion comes back as honorary chairman BREMERTON, Wash. -- He was as reluctant to leave the golf course as a kid called home when there's still late-evening light in the late-summer sky. There was still a whole back nine to play. But Bill Tindall, no kid anymore, … [Read more...]

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Andres Gonzales will take his road show to the U.S. Open

June 7, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Andres Gonzales is no wide-eyed innocent -- check his Twitter tweaks of Tiger Woods -- but there's nothing like your first. Gonzales Your first U.S. Open. Gonzales, 28, a PGA Tour rookie from Olympia, Wash., played his way into the Open Monday with a 36-hole total of 133 … [Read more...]

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Dan Raley to read from his book about the old hometown ball team

June 4, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

That stuff up there under the Blogolfosphere heading is all about the blog being all about golf. Except for days like today, when it’s about Raley, who isn’t much about golf at all these days. Dan Raley, lately of Atlanta, Ga., is plenty busy with other things. In another venue a couple years ago, … [Read more...]

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What’s on your plate at the turn?

June 3, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Comes the news just yesterday, from your United States Department of Agriculture, that the Food Pyramid is out. The Plate is in. Bold prediction: This development will not rock the golf world . The plate symbol, they say, makes it easier to visualize portion sizes relative to the kinds of food … [Read more...]

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There’s no golf site like Secret in the Dirt

May 10, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Of all the tributes to Seve Ballesteros out there this week, the best might be Calder Chism’s memorial caricature at Secret in the Dirt (http://www.secretinthedirt.com).Chism, a Reno, Nev., editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and artist, has a raft of golf originals on Secret in the Dirt, which is … [Read more...]

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