A couple career journeymen teamed to claim the title last weekend at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. It could be said Scott Piercy (four career wins) and Billy Horschel (five) are journeymen with a difference -- they've won out there. Horschel, in particular, has a big star by … [Read more...]
It’s problematic
They say "problematic" is a trending word and concept in our culture of the now. I think it's supposed to call out how conflicted we feel about a good movie by a director who's a dirtbag with women, or the public achievements of a civil rights leader who does his abusing in private. Nobody … [Read more...]
Major ramifications
Leave it to the women, demonstrably more clever in all things than men in general, to put on the first major of the professional goffin' season. Officially, it's the ANA Inspiration in Rancho Mirage, but you can call it the Dinah. Eun-Hi Jee stamped herself a contender with a victory last … [Read more...]
Pain control
Jon Rahm is not the story at the Farmers Insurance Open this week, and won't be any sooner than Saturday, even though he's defending champion, even if he's leading the tournament, even if he did supplant Jordan Spieth at No. 2 in the World Goffin' Rankings with a playoff victory last weekend … [Read more...]
Prep work
So I wonder, then, if I'm not old, why all I talk about are "procedures," friends who are sick, and incarcerating or otherwise caring for our parents prior to burying them. It's enough to make a guy hide his head ... preferably, if it came to that, in a greenside bunker of fine white sand in … [Read more...]
Fingerprints of Chandler Egan
H. (Henry) Chandler Egan was a two-time U.S. Amateur champion who became better known in the northwestern United States for the golf courses he designed in the first quarter of the 20th century: Eugene (Ore.) Country Club, West Seattle Golf Club, Eastmoreland Golf Club (Portland), Tualatin … [Read more...]
A reason for September
Without golf, there wouldn't be a Global Golf Calendar, and maybe no calendars at all. Or maybe they'd have to invent calendars because without golf, there wouldn't be the Masters, and how else would anybody know it was April? Without golf, there'd be be no Grey Goatee Golf Association, and maybe … [Read more...]
The women’s game
If you're not watching the women's game, you're missing out on the most fascinating golf in the industry. Today's KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Olympia Fields in Illinois, just for instance, had it all going on, and the best part, watching on our television sets, was nobody among the … [Read more...]
Grey Goatee on a sporting Saturday
We greying goats of the Association look good on paper. We have all the metrics. Our SARs (strokes above replacement) are all high, or low, whichever is better, nobody quite knows. Our CRS is off the charts ... we think the letters stand for Crown Royal Shots, and whether that's true or not, we act … [Read more...]
Le Grey Goatee
If I know you, you're in Evian-les-Bains, France, strolling the playing grounds of the fifth and final major of the LPGA season. The women have the weekend to themselves, mostly, with the PGA boys taking a week off before the top 30 take on the FedEx Cup final next weekend, with the Ryder Cup the … [Read more...]
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