I'm thinking the Olympics will be just fine -- Rio will be amazing, the security will work, and nobody will get carried off by a Zika Monster. Even the golf will be good, and nobody will notice (much) the top guys who aren't there. I'll miss having the Russian track and field team around, just … [Read more...]
The teaching pros can play a little, too
These guys don’t have the name recognition to match PGA Tour pros, and that’s because they spend their professional lives running golf courses and teaching the rest of us bums how to play the game better. Grey Goatee Nation, whether you know it or not, has a dog in the fight at the PGA … [Read more...]
Monty full on
Colin Montgomerie -- who knew? -- has won the last two Senior PGA Championships. He's in the field this weekend at Harbor Shores in Michigan to aim at a three-peat. Montgomerie is only 52. Really? The media guide says he's 6-1, 210 pounds -- they do have good PR on the Champions tour. Monty is … [Read more...]
Don Whitt: Tied with Nyquist for Kentucky Derby wins
The second leg of racing's Triple Crown gives entrée to bring up the only golf tournament ever named for the Triple Crown's first leg. According to the crack Grey Goatee Research Team, there really was a Kentucky Derby Open on the PGA Tour, contested for three years in the late 1950s at Seneca Golf … [Read more...]
Augusta West
EUGENE, Ore. -- It's overshadowed in its own state by the courses at Bandon Dunes, in the greater Northwest by Chambers Bay and Sahalee. But Eugene Country Club will take its Top 100 national rankings, make its members happy, and gladly host top-tier championships on the regal but rugged … [Read more...]
The Masters: Unscripted edition
Sports is the only reality TV left on your television set. I don't know how to break it to you: "Real Housewives of New Jersey" is a scripted drama. So is "Survivor" ... and it's a relief, really -- dialogue that bad has to come from some writer somewhere. The only reality show I ever liked … [Read more...]
For crying out loud
So easy for a guy of a certain age to get all snot-nosed and blubbery and he doesn't know why and he doesn't even have a cold or any known allergies, that he knows of. If there's any way to let me know if I'm about to run across a kid playing catch with his dad in the long shadows of late … [Read more...]
Tumwater partners up with craft booze makers
TUMWATER, Wash. – The Golf Course in the Valley of the Shadow of the Brewery is really the course in the valley of the shadow of the empty, decaying, long-defunct former brewery where once they made Oly. That crime against the drinking public notwithstanding, it’s sad and a little creepy to see the … [Read more...]
The Nicklaus Nine
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...]
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