PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- There are no judgments, my brothers and sisters, on the journey. That is, there is only what is, and what is, is. Our scorecard we forgot to remember, which is to say it and we achieved pure being and nothingness as we walked through Port Townsend Golf Club in tranquil … [Read more...]
Day Two: Wherein we discover
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- The front nine at Discovery Bay Golf Course looks like a couple guys got together, took a walk through the land and laid down a golf course. It was the early 1920s, and they weren't professional architects, and they did a damn good job. The back looks different. It … [Read more...]
Day One: The Ludlow leg
PORT LUDLOW, Wash. – The amenities are top-shelf, the on-course constructions – the cart paths and tee boxes and practice areas -- are well-thought-out and well-tended. And even with that, the word that comes to mind at Port Ludlow Golf Course is “rough.” Rough, as in nature in all its unruliness … [Read more...]
The Northern Ports Tour
... with a side of blues PORT HADLOCK, Wash. -- Rhythm is key in the golf swing, we hear, and it sure is for good blues musicians, but maybe not so much for appreciators of the art form, especially when they're drunk, which means the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival on Saturday, its … [Read more...]
Easy choices
NEW ORLEANS, Monday – If you want full honesty on up in here, I was looking for Coop’s Place when I came to Gallier’s, and even after walking in I wasn’t set on staying. But I did, and when the grilled oyster appetizer arrived I regretted I wasn’t with at least one other human to share the heaping … [Read more...]
The Grey Gazette
I won't say Jarrod Ramos was hearing the Supreme Leader's voice in his head, the one that says the press is the enemy of the people, when he shot up the Capital Gazette. Ramos's grudge seemed more personal. But who will say some other slackjaw, somebody who has let Drumpf's hatespeak echo off the … [Read more...]
Olympics Nation
Two professional majors -- the LPGA's and the USGA's -- go head-to-head this weekend, which guarantees neither tournament will get the attention both deserve. At the end of the day, the Golf Channel won't be leading with either of them. The PGA Tour has a lightweight field at a non-major stop in … [Read more...]
Women’s edition
If it's a typo, and it sure seems like it, it's been repeated in all the places they're writing about the Women's U.S. Open. Placed a call to the crack Grey Goatee Research Cult: It's not a typo. Jeongeun Lee might not be the only Jeongeun Lee in the field, but after an opening-round 67, … [Read more...]
No sneezing matter
KENT, Wash. -- It goes without saying that a golf stroke on the first day counts as much as a stroke on the last, so in a tournament lost by one shot it's not all about a missed two-foot par putt on No. 16. John Cassidy is not big on excuses, so, okay, it's not even about a woman in the … [Read more...]
Justify yourself
Once upon a horse-racing major I told you to take the Baffert horse in the Preakness without disclosing, in the spirit of full disclosure, that ... okay, if I disclosed now what I didn't disclose then, you'd be justified in doubting the handicapping acumen behind my urging you today, if I were to do … [Read more...]
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