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 … [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...]
Monday murmuring
Justin Thomas had another "fuck, yeah" moment on 18 Sunday in Mexico City, holing out for eagle from 121 yards to take a sudden two-stroke lead to the clubhouse. Phil Mickelson made a routine birdie on 15 and a clutch birdie putt on 16 to force a playoff and set up an "oh, fuck" moment for Thomas -- … [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...]
Back on the horse
Tom Hoge missed putts on the 16th, 17th and 18th holes Sunday in Honolulu, and all they did was lose him a golf tournament. Hoge, the 54-hole leader at the Sony Open, finished a shot out of a playoff -- close, sliver close, to his first PGA Tour victory. Hoge had a one-stroke lead heading to … [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...]
Spine detection edition
T. Woods says his pain is behind him. I believe it's back there, all right, chasing him. He's playing in this weekend's Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, and the field is strong. Woods will be paired the first day with Justin Thomas, just one of the guns in the sun looking, even now, to … [Read more...]
Hometown boy Couples announces for Boeing Classic
They're putting on a major at Quail Hollow this week without Fred Couples, which -- though he's a fixture at the Masters --is not so unusual these days. So the prospect of Couples playing tournament golf within driving distance of Grey Goatee World HQ is a welcome one and, though it's not a major, … [Read more...]
Texas time
We wrote this about Billy Horschel back in September 2015: Yeah, Horschel. Got lost in the shuffle at the end of the FedEx Cup playoffs last year, and that’s after he won it. Won the $10 million. Won two straight tournaments at the end of the playoffs, and he was called a symptom of the worst … [Read more...]
Washington’s open
KENT, Wash. -- They let the dirty media in to chew up their golf course Tuesday, and the playing grounds held up under the pounding and hacking and grinding. The quiet early-May light showed off the angular sightlines of Meridian Valley Country Club to good advantage, and though we … [Read more...]
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