We're getting back to normal-ish in and near Grey Goatee Global HQ, which means 52-ish Fahrenheit and precipitatious, while in La Quinta, Calif., in the winter desert, it's looking like 65 for a high all week with a chance of moisture. So it's not so hot, all in all, and the hot guy's not here … [Read more...]
The Queen’s Island Tour: Postscript
The back nine, especially, at Storey Creek Golf Club feels like a walk through the deep woods -- quiet and cool, breathtaking. The course's civilized amenities seem worlds away. In that setting, there is bound to be wildlife, and there was, but the biggest creatures -- deer -- were abundant and … [Read more...]
The 3GA: It stops here
TUMWATER, Wash. -- Here in the valley of the shadow of the brewery, so near Grey Goatee Global HQ that we can feel its hum, we go to battle, steady in the scrutiny of the golf universe. We are the Grey Goatee Golf Association (3GA) Tour, and this is our time. We've gone our way quietly … [Read more...]
The Firestorm Tour: A new view
THE ONLY RIGHT NAME is The Firestorm Tour, and in choosing what to call this annual road trip we are not making light of the brutal wildfires that changed landscapes and changed lives in north-central Washington state in July. As usual, golf is at the center of the tour, first at the … [Read more...]
This damn game
TUMWATER USA – Golf on a recent fading Thursday evening at the course closest to Grey Goatee World Headquarters, too dark, of course, to play on, but you’re so close and what the hell. I jerked it hard into the trees on the left on 18, but I had a shot to the green. Struck it clean with a 7-iron, … [Read more...]
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