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Essential recreation

May 6, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I don't think I've seen a magpie, nor would I know one if I heard one. Are they native to my part of Grey Goatee Nation? No idea. Doesn't matter. My boys, the sporting gentlemen of the 3GA, were chattering on like Heckle and Jeckle, giggling by text message just after securing reservations for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Bent Shaft Classic, Grey Goatee Golf Association, Grey Goatee Nation

Thoughts on Dot’s

April 19, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

In any snack-shopping story, excess = success, and vice versa. We were at our local grocery emporium and came on a rack on an end cap with two bags left, just two, of Dot's Homestyle Pretzels. Did I take them both? No. That would've been mean. Directly kitty-corner across the store, oh joy, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Cytokine Storms, Jeannette Catsoulis, tuchis

The street that time forgot

April 17, 2020 By Bart Potter 3 Comments

The dog shits more than he eats, I mean volume-wise, which is a puzzlement to me. I like all my bio/medical questions to be answered by Dr. Fauci these days, and while this one might be out of his particular area of specialty and off the subject at hand, I think I'll send it in to the next town hall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Dr. Fauci, Heroes in America, the street that time forgot

There’s no next-best thing

April 2, 2020 By Bart Potter 2 Comments

We begin at the top when we start in to list the global sporting championships compromised by COVID-19. It's no joking matter, so we speak in hushed tones about postponement of the Bent Shaft Classic and lesser world events. It's not a tragedy. It's just a golf tournament. But what will we do with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Bent Shaft Classic, COVID-19, Golf, Grey Goatee Golf Association, PGA Championship, The Masters, The Open Championship, U.S. Open

Pardon edition

February 19, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I'm the Commissar, which is all you or anyone needs to know about My fat regal ass and My divine right to spew My rancid guts out on the heads of the innocent and grant pardon to My friends in the next gasp. There is only One Commissar, so therefore I write The Rules of Being the Commissar, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar, Grey Goatee Golf Association

Day 3: My pronouns

December 13, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Been watching the Presidents Cup flow by on my television set with the sound down, a lot of the time. Our alternative soundtrack today is brought to you by Boz Scaggs's Out of the Blues. Favorite line, from "I've Just Got to Know": I think you want me for conveniency / If I'm wrong please tell me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Presidents Cup, Tiger Woods

Day 2: And then another

December 12, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Presidents Cup, Rickie Fowler, Tiger Woods

Day 1: Goofy again at the Prez Cup

December 11, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The Internationals' unprecedented 4-1 lead after Day One of the Presidents Cup should have been no surprise, given the severe competitive disadvantage faced by our boys. Really with the white pants? If cringing made a sound, you’d be hearing it from the famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Patrick Reed, Presidents Cup

This week in golf and culture

November 28, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28, 2019: On which we appreciate golf and its large place in our lives, notwithstanding that it rips our guts out and makes us drink and takes us away for hours and days from our loving families. We know what you’re thinking, and no, this day is for family time … … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar

Minnehaha explained

September 18, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Minnehaha Country Club in South Dakota, which is said to be south of North Dakota, is the site of this weekend's Sanford Invitational for the older gentlemen of the Champions Tour. The name of the club derives, we believe, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha," which is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Champions Tour, Global Golf Calendar, Hiawatha, Longfellow, LPGA, Minnehaha, PGA Tour

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