Friday, June 14, 2019 PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Damn New Yorker writers. I sat there in the U.S. Open media center this morning reading a story about Augusta National Golf Club and its relentless artifice, and I couldn't get past "prelapsarian." I was on the grounds of Pebble Beach Golf Links, … [Read more...]
Off Course
Sports and arts, stories and images of the world that edges on our golf courses.
This damn game 10
Dawn Patrol, first of the season, at the Golf Course in the Valley of the Shadow of the Brewery, alone with my thoughts, too too alone … Sing with me, won’t you? Muscle memory, dim in corners of my mindMisty sprinkler-spattered memories, like, dang …Really? All those lessons?All we spent on … [Read more...]
Bored to tears
HOUSTON, Texas -- The way I see it about living with acute leukemia is there's nothing good about it. Not a fucking thing. I can run to the nurses' station and ascertain why it takes so long to get back when the robo-beeping from the kink in the IV tube is driving him insane. I can carry a … [Read more...]
Easy choices
NEW ORLEANS, Monday – If you want full honesty on up in here, I was looking for Coop’s Place when I came to Gallier’s, and even after walking in I wasn’t set on staying. But I did, and when the grilled oyster appetizer arrived I regretted I wasn’t with at least one other human to share the heaping … [Read more...]
Heartbreaker to the end
I learned about it by text message in the afternoon of a sad day in American history. I got it from my Roadie compadre Steve, who I know was sorry to be the one to break it to me. In the same cycle as the Las Vegas massacre, the death of Tom Petty was not the news of the day. He was 66, which is … [Read more...]
Any major dude will tell you
I had a glimmer something was wrong when I tried to reach the Grey Goatee Research Geeks with a mundane question about golf, of all things. Closed. Shut. No answer. While I wasn't expecting cheerful service, I was surprised by the total silence. It was Barry who told me, after a round of golf, … [Read more...]
The back way in
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- I left The Carson Cigar Company with a buzz in my brain and gratitude in my heart for a good martini and the bartender who built it, and it's no small thing to get all that and smoke a cigar, too, in one darkly well-lit place during normal business hours. It's impossible, … [Read more...]
This damn game: Masters Sunday edition
It's sort of like a cynical grownup version of hoops in the driveway and HE SHOOTS HE SCOOOORES!! We're just four old guys playing golf with no stakes whatsoever and all we've been doing for three days before we went to an actual golf course to play is watch the Masters on our … [Read more...]
News you can use
I have all the tools, and they're at my disposal right now when it means the most. I'm fully healthy, and I've worked hard to get here. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to do what needs to be done. I'm a force inside, and one thing I've learned about myself, in my long career, is I'm not as … [Read more...]
The Four: Room for two more
I don't know if these guys even play golf, but since my Dream Foursome is a theoretical construct, mathematically and logistically implausible, it doesn't really matter, does it. They would be good company for four-or-so hours on a sunny afternoon on a muni in Mukilteo or in the dankest … [Read more...]
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