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...]
Golf goes on without Tiger … let me count the ways
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...]
A round with Bill Tindall
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...]
Andres Gonzales will take his road show to the U.S. Open
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...]
Dan Raley to read from his book about the old hometown ball team
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...]
What’s on your plate at the turn?
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...]
There’s no golf site like Secret in the Dirt
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...]
Journalism as blog, blog as journalism
Along with the slow death of newspapering as we know it, we get confirmation that in the eyes of the world (or the Daily Beast) there is no more useless piece of academic paper than our BAs in journalism. When I was in j-school, we knew we wouldn’t get rich out there – we knew, at least, that … [Read more...]
It might be Tiger, it might be time
I made the casual comment, after Friday at The Masters, “Tiger’s playing well.” My close friend, who cares little for golf and is as sweet and demure as any wife-like object can be, said, “Is he still bangin’ a buncha chicks?” Well, dear, I don’t know. They say he has a girlfriend … [Read more...]
USGA ‘taskmaster’ earns new title
It was hard to deny that Chambers Bay Golf Course looked a little brown on TV – and in person – when the U.S. Amateur came to University Place, Wash., last summer. But it was appropriate for “pure links golf,” as the golf course would have it, and was exactly what the United States Golf … [Read more...]
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