The text came in from the brother in America's heartland: "Am I hallucinating or did we just make a putt?" We, baby, is the Americans, baby, and when Patrick Cantlay rolled one in from 14 feet on 18 to win a full point for the RW&B, we were on the way back. You can't have momentum until you … [Read more...]
Orange on Sunday and other cavorts
cavort (Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, Second Edition, p. 289): to prance; leap about; caper; as, the horse cavorted. cavort (Grey Goatee Global Golf Dictionary, Unmoored, First and Only Edition, p. 3): 1. to dance without thinking, like no one's watching, and … [Read more...]
Nope, next year
It's not the Ryder Cup, and there's no sense pretending it is. The Americans will go and have fun and win and all will be jolly, because they don't really care. It's not the Ryder Cup. This American Presidents Cup group is a dream team unlike any trotted out there, even any past team that had a … [Read more...]
Royal Birkdale, of a fashion
6:11 a.m. GGMT (Grey Goatee Mean Time); 2:11 p.m. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Southport, England Henrik Stenson, Champion Golfer of the Year until somebody takes it from him, was uncharacteristically sloppy Friday. I'm not talking about his clothes, mind you. His threads, by Hugo Boss, just … [Read more...]
Masters Day Two: The old and the young of it
On a Friday at Augusta, it's about making the cut or not. In the narrow demographic of Grey Goatee Nation, it's about the old guys. Couples, are you kidding me? Lovely golf, at 57. Mesmerizing. Just go win, Freddie. Phil Mickelson, at 46, knows this course better than anyone in the field … [Read more...]
D. Johnson, your Masters favorite
It begins to seem like Dustin Johnson should never lose a golf tournament. When he’s striking it and creating around the greens and making putts, there’s no one as good. He can beat himself, and nearly did over a shaky few holes near the end Sunday at Club de Golf Chapultepec. We know, … [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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