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...]
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What we learned in a weekend's worth of golf including two majors and a Web.com non-major that had the world's hottest player going low: Stephan Jaeger, a 27-year-old German, shot 58 Thursday in Hayward, Calif., and went on to blow out the field at the Ellie Mae Classic. His $106,000 paycheck jumped … [Read more...]
Grey around the edges of The Open
I know we all want to talk about The Open Championship, and we can, if you like, but first a word about the tournament up in Union, Wash., that dares to schedule against it. The tournament, Stop No. 4 on the Grey Goatee Golf Association Tour, is better known worldwide as the Howl at the Canal, the … [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...]
The Open, Day 2: Will it be Willett?
2:55 p.m. St Andrews time (6:55 a.m. PDT) He's making it look easy, Danny Willett is, and he's the easy story early in this rain-delayed second round at the Old Course. I'm wondering who he is, too. The things you learn when you check in with the crack Grey Goatee research staff (suddenly … [Read more...]
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