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...]
Women Olympians take a spin
It’s hard to be cynical about Olympics golf after watching the men's final round Sunday. These guys were having fun, on a beautiful new golf course, and the only guy possibly happier than gold medalist Justin Rose was bronze medalist Matt Kuchar. As for silver medalist Henrik Stenson, the big stoic … [Read more...]
The world is watching
The smart money in the U.S. Senior Open is always -- forever? -- Bernhard Langer. The smart play has never attracted us ... we say, Why not Monty? They're teeing off in the Olympics golf tournament in Rio. We're betting on Patrick Reed ... not the people's choice (none of those guys are even in … [Read more...]
Grey around the edges of The Open
I know we all want to talk about The Open Championship, and we can, if you like, but first a word about the tournament up in Union, Wash., that dares to schedule against it. The tournament, Stop No. 4 on the Grey Goatee Golf Association Tour, is better known worldwide as the Howl at the Canal, the … [Read more...]
Cold War edition
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...]
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...]
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 … [Read more...]
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