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...]
Circled in green
If you're like me, a regular guy's guy with golf on his brain in this week of weeks in April, you've been looping "Live from the Masters" on the Golf Channel, and by now you've seen it all and seen it all again. You've seen the 20-year retrospective of Tiger Woods' 12-stroke victory in the … [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...]
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...]
Masters Week: The price of perfection
I’d love to see Augusta National, and play it, and watch The Masters in person, but with today’s crazy-good electronics, it’s the major made for TV. Only one other golf tournament in the world – The (British) Open Championship – compares as a television spectacle. If Augusta had any blemishes, the … [Read more...]
Monday after-Master’s meditations
The dude’s 20 … he’s got time, insane talent and the full respect and attention of the golf intelligentsia. Older men, older major champions, have cracked in the crazy kiln of Master’s Sunday. So it almost goes without saying that Jordan Spieth will have the lead again on the final day of a … [Read more...]
The Tiger ruling, by the Rules, under the circumstances
AFTER THIS, a lot of us will take a fresh look at the Rules of Golf, and that's not a bad thing. For me, if I was taking a drop like Tiger Woods did today on No.15, I would have, in all righteous ignorance, added "no closer to the hole" to my mental computation of where … [Read more...]
Master’s favorite? Does a tiger shit in the woods?
UNTIL THE puff of smoke, I really thought I had a shot. Three days later, I’m still sorting it out. I could do Pope. I really think I could. I could hang out, dressed in my Sunday robes and beanie, like el rey del mundo, and make the occasional proclamation. I could handle the Basilica San … [Read more...]
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