Omaha Beach was scratched from Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, meaning, among other things, that he won’t win the Triple Crown but might otherwise expect a decent career as an elite thoroughbred racer before retiring to the barn to party like a stud pony. I know you or I, faced with the same life … [Read more...]
Scarecrow edition
The LPGA is playing this week at the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, the longest golf course name in the known world, which only means the LPGA has too many sponsors it's trying to appease. Maybe they're overthinking it. Maybe not. I like to think like my … [Read more...]
What’s in my bag?
You've seen the ads for Justin Rose and his move to Honma clubs. The Japanese luxury brand inked Rose, then the World No. 2, on the first day of the New Year. Rose is now World No. 1, and smashed right through any break-in angst over his shiny new sticks by winning with them at the Farmers week … [Read more...]
Order on the course
The phrase is deus ex machina. The meaning is fluid, as far as I can tell, but it seems in popular usage to be something unexpected that for no obvious reason makes sense of gibberish or substance of nothingness. Herewith golf, the simplest game. Its goal, its very essence, is simple, which … [Read more...]
The coefficient of Bryson
Look at the big brain on Bryson ... so large he needs the Hogan cap to hold it all in. It's frightening to us for whom too much thinking about any one thing in the greater world is hard work and, we're certain, will cause physical pain, which does not prevent us from thinking about our … [Read more...]
A most unusual week
We used to watch Tiger Woods and admire, respect and marvel, and we couldn't take our eyes off him. But did we like him? We've written here more than once that Woods is not a nice guy, and I for one have been okay with that. The aura was the man, the man was the aura. It wasn't like I would … [Read more...]
Rookie golfer of the year
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- Near to the home precincts of Grey Goatee Nation this week we have the Boeing Classic, a stop on the Champions Tour for old fuckers who still got game. Jerry Kelly is the defending champion at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge -- last year, as a senior circuit rookie, he got a … [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...]
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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