LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- One is a Northwest icon, universally respected by his fellow pros but not a household name in the greater world of golf. The other is Jack. When Ken Still called his friend Jack Nicklaus, a few years back, he had a simple message: Buddy, you gotta design a back nine for the … [Read more...]
This just in: 3GA opener looms
The tournament they used to call the L.A. Open tees off today at Riviera Country Club. Rory McIlroy is in the field ... so is Spieth and DJ. World No. 1 Lydia Ko is 18, but she is, they say, an old soul. She's in the field for the Women's Australian Open this weekend. Those two tournaments … [Read more...]
Spring training
They're fighting in the hater press about who's the bigger dickhead, Cam Newton or Peyton Manning. That's an easy one: Eli Manning. Can the NFL just go away for a while? On a sunny day in Grey Goatee Nation, when the breeze catches you just right, you get that whiff of new-mown grass on up in … [Read more...]
Let it be Lexi
The relentlessly consistent Lexi Thompson (68-67-69-69) won the KEB Hana Championship in South Korea over the weekend. But Lydia Ko (see below) has the lead in the Race to the CME Globe as LPGA pros near the home stretch of the season points championship. Thompson helped herself, but maybe not … [Read more...]
No, the Ryder Cup is next year
TACOMA, Wash. -- They say the greens are PGA Tour-caliber ... and "they" are Tour players. "We" are not, so our first round at historic Tacoma Country Club could be brutal ... or it could be amazing. Every year, the Northwest Golf Media Association has a year-end banquet at a course the average … [Read more...]
The waiting months
Jordan Spieth is rich, so is his caddy (appreciably less, but not bad for a looper), and the world now moves on to the Presidents Cup, which is not the Ryder Cup but has a little more zing this time because Jason Day and Rory McIlroy will be playing for the other guys. Not much else going on, … [Read more...]
The 3GA Tour and the other one
Last weekend, the PGA Tour yielded the world golf stage to the Grey Goatee Golf Association (3GA), as well it should. Kevin Patterson, a big kid out of Longview, Wash., earned the coveted Green Cardigan for season supremacy on the 3GA Tour. The enigmatic Patterson had nothing to say afterward, … [Read more...]
The 3GA: It stops here
TUMWATER, Wash. -- Here in the valley of the shadow of the brewery, so near Grey Goatee Global HQ that we can feel its hum, we go to battle, steady in the scrutiny of the golf universe. We are the Grey Goatee Golf Association (3GA) Tour, and this is our time. We've gone our way quietly through … [Read more...]
A vision in orange
The snapback cap is and always will be dorky. even on King Felix, but it's hard to call Ricky Fowler a dork after he won his second PGA Tour tournament of the year Sept. 6, at a time on the calendar when any victory counts for a lot. The kid can play, a goddamn vision in orange, and how cool … [Read more...]
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