The Morning: Surfside Golf Course, Ocean Park, Wash. 3,098 yards, par 36 Surfside has evolved in recent years. It used to be a course that could bend your irons and dent your golf balls when you clanged off the flint-hard fairways. Now, the earth on the fairways is softer, firm … [Read more...]
The Six Niner Tour, Day Two: Sublime to ridiculous
The Morning: Highlands Golf Club, Gearhart, Ore. 1,794 yards, par 31 It wends its way through an upscale waterfront neighborhood, its five par-3s and four par-4s up tight to the houses. It's short and narrow, and long on challenge. They take care of the golf course at this club, and the … [Read more...]
The Six Niner Tour, Day One
The Morning: Manzanita Golf Course, Manzanita, Ore. Par 32, 2192 yards There isn't much bad to say about this nine-hole golf course. Narrow fairways, with tree trouble to either side, but straight works, on any hole. A skilled golfer will have no lack of challenge, and a scrambler can find his … [Read more...]
The Six Niner Tour: Nine is enough, and it’s gonna be good
For a lot of us, nine holes is just getting warmed up. Nine is half the picture. Nine is nothing but the front side. Nine, just nine, is never enough. But there are players for whom a full 18 is a long slog. The five hours it gouges out of your day is a couple hours too many. Nine, just nine, is … [Read more...]
Golf into the gloaming
We played on like kids on the sandlot hustling to get in one more at-bat, one more inning, urgent against the gathering darkness. “Are we gonna make it?” he said, as we bypassed our last chance to cut over to No. 16. It would have meant skipping 14, which is the coolest hole on the golf course … [Read more...]
Evan and I go price-shopping
I might as well make the distributors the bad guys in this little melodrama … at some point maybe they’ll have their say, but for now, somebody is culpable in the stupidly high price of liquor in Washington state, and it just makes sense that the middlemen are the bad men. The large distributors … [Read more...]
Things we think we know
Watching Tiger Woods play golf today at Royal Lytham & St. Annes is, as always in recent years, a complex mental exercise. You can’t watch him without thinking of his monumental fall from grace and wondering where he’s at in his mind and body and golf game and why we should care. Well, … [Read more...]
Tiger and history: He’s already made it
A golf announcer on CBS finally said the manifestly obvious: Tiger Woods might or might not be “back,” and he might or might not win a major this year. Let history play itself out … it always does. In the meantime, we can ponder the not insignificant fact that Woods has won fourteen (14) majors … [Read more...]
The high price of private liquor: You get what you vote for
The flask in the side pocket is standard golf equipment for a couple-three guys I know, and if you live in Washington USA like I do, filling the flask with brown liquid is fraught with complexities, over and above laying hands on the funnel … We will write in this space about something other than … [Read more...]
Webb Simpson, as if it wasn’t obvious all along
Kevin Durant was good but not great – didn’t make a putt that mattered all Sunday. LeBron James, with lots of steps and an occasional dribble thrown in as a nod to the little people who make the rules, hit all the big shots. I told you to watch out for Webb Simpson. Well, maybe I didn’t actually … [Read more...]
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