So I wonder, then, if I'm not old, why all I talk about are "procedures," friends who are sick, and incarcerating or otherwise caring for our parents prior to burying them. It's enough to make a guy hide his head ... preferably, if it came to that, in a greenside bunker of fine white sand in … [Read more...]
The shoe drops and other news of the day
We wrote this a couple days ago: " ... (S)ports figures have been mostly absent lately in the rash of sexual bad acts brought to light. We’re waiting for that shoe to drop." The tasseled loafer, boys and girls, has hit the faux-oak laminate. No one was too surprised to hear it belonged to Warren … [Read more...]
Orange on Sunday and other cavorts
cavort (Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, Second Edition, p. 289): to prance; leap about; caper; as, the horse cavorted. cavort (Grey Goatee Global Golf Dictionary, Unmoored, First and Only Edition, p. 3): 1. to dance without thinking, like no one's watching, and … [Read more...]
Spine detection edition
T. Woods says his pain is behind him. I believe it's back there, all right, chasing him. He's playing in this weekend's Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, and the field is strong. Woods will be paired the first day with Justin Thomas, just one of the guns in the sun looking, even now, to … [Read more...]
Nope, next year
It's not the Ryder Cup, and there's no sense pretending it is. The Americans will go and have fun and win and all will be jolly, because they don't really care. It's not the Ryder Cup. This American Presidents Cup group is a dream team unlike any trotted out there, even any past team that had a … [Read more...]
Pacific Links postscript
VICTORIA, British Columbia -- The Mountain Course at Bear Mountain is gorgeous, and tournament officials take good care of the players, volunteers and media. The resort is a nice, self-contained village with lots of ways to foster its guests’ willingness to drop wads of cash. The crowds were good … [Read more...]
Jerry Kelly conquers the island
6 p.m. Grey Goatee Mean Time VICTORIA, British Columbia – Jerry Kelly, the hottest player on the PGA Tour Champions lately, used his trademark steady head – and Lee Janzen’s double-bogey on No. 17 – to finish off a one-stroke victory at the Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship on Vancouver … [Read more...]
Pacific Links, Day 2: Smith stays the course
VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Jerry Smith was maybe unfairly damned yesterday in this space. He's a strong-looking guy, moves like an athlete, solid through the ball. That doesn't mean if he put on a burgundy leisure suit he wouldn't look like the guy who handled your grandpa's funeral. In … [Read more...]
Mr. Smith goes to Victoria
VICTORIA, British Columbia -- There's some serious glitter on top of the leaderboard here. You know these guys: Jerry Kelly, David Toms, Bernhard Langer, John Daly, Jerry Smith -- Stop. Who, please, is Jerry Smith? He looks like he sells insurance at a strip mall in Council Bluffs. I … [Read more...]
Fingerprints of Chandler Egan
H. (Henry) Chandler Egan was a two-time U.S. Amateur champion who became better known in the northwestern United States for the golf courses he designed in the first quarter of the 20th century: Eugene (Ore.) Country Club, West Seattle Golf Club, Eastmoreland Golf Club (Portland), Tualatin … [Read more...]
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