I BELIEVE THEY sincerely wanted to know how my golf round went yesterday -- so I did the uncharacteristic: I filled out the e-mail survey of a golf course just north and east of Grey Goatee Global HQ. I told them I would prefer to play without the rumble and grind of heavy construction equipment … [Read more...]
Going with the orange
The master manipulator that is me was forced into some hasty Yahoo lineup changes because orange is the new black and Brandt Snedeker is in 113th after one day at the Humana Challenge in Partnership with the Clinton Foundation. Big Bubba is here to justify the longest tournament name on tour, and I … [Read more...]
Teacher’s Corner: Charlie Thurston
Today we introduce a new recurring feature in this space: Teacher's Corner. Our first subject is Charlie Thurston, a 45-year-old Colbert, Wash., golf pro profiled yesterday about his company, Pacific Northwest Golf and Wine Tours. CHARLIE THURSTON IS A TEACHER of golf, and when he … [Read more...]
Golf tours with tips and tippling
LAYING UP MIGHT BE the smart play on a given hole on a given day at a given golf course. Playing it safe, however, is not in the business plan for Charlie Thurston's entrepreneurial golf venture. Thurston, a 45-year-old PGA professional, recently fell victim to a downsizing at Spokane Country … [Read more...]
About damn time
IT WAS A SIMPLE MATH problem, elementary even, and for doing it there was no good reason … life, science or golf. Anybody who was gifted a dozen golf balls this last week of the year might have considered, if fleetingly, the same mental exercise: How to rearrange the 12 in sleeves of three, … [Read more...]
I seem to remember we once had a cabin
It's a relief now to see it for what it is. Really, it's just an old ramshackle cottage, stuck way out in a rural county whose administrators never failed to screw up our utility bills but always remembered to nitpick over our septic tank. Oh my god, it's old ... the water pump is loud and … [Read more...]
Beginning the long (too short) goodbye
TAHUYA USA – It is, besides being the No. 1 place in the world to be when the sun goes down, the summer headquarters for the Howl at the Canal, a golf tournament of vast global significance and a party notorious throughout the greater Bald Point region. So far, one deal has fallen through a day … [Read more...]
This damn game: 3
TUMWATER USA – It's the course nearest to his heart, the course closest in space and time to Grey Goatee World Headquarters, a benign and scenic muni in this former brewery town which, as recently as this week, played host to the best single round of golf ever by the dude who posts these posts to a … [Read more...]
This damn game: 2
LACEY USA – It was a scorecard the likes of which I’d never experienced … all sixes … until No. 9, when I missed a bogey putt for 7. It meant two of the sixes were bogeys – okay. It meant two of the sixes were triples. It meant I played all the par-4s at double-bogey. It wasn’t as bad as it … [Read more...]
Working titles for the building I didn’t build
This is a story about two buildings. One is a place in my heart. I call it The Cabin. The other sits in my backyard, unfinished and so far unnamed. I’m not ready to talk about the first place. It’s too soon and too sad. So, today, it’s about the other, which is not even yet bidding for … [Read more...]
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