Along about the time we were getting serious about making plans, weighing dates and times and all the minutiae, one of us had a medical episode. It wasn't serious, though it could have been, and it was timed so badly I had to laugh. This is the same guy who often says, We gotta do these things, … [Read more...]
U.S. Open, Day 2: The Kaymer wave
Pinehurst No. 2, Friday, June 13 3:00 p.m. PDT: Free fall Phil With Kaymer posting a second-straight 65, Phil Mickelson would love to be one of the players putting pressure on the auto-cruising German. But Mickelson is spinning his wheels at 2-over par through 15. Graeme McDowell is sharp in … [Read more...]
Teacher’s Corner: Cassidy, Lesson 2
NEVER LET IT BE SAID this game is simple. John Cassidy, the teacher in this little drama, says often: “Golf is hard.” He makes it look so easy. Cassidy, of course, is not just Dr. John, teacher to the stars (and lowlife bloggers). He’s a player, in fact champion week before last against a … [Read more...]
Teacher’s Corner: Cassidy talks the talk
Lesson No. 1 with John Cassidy, a 32-year-old teaching professional at Alderbrook Golf Club in Union, Wash. First impression: He makes sense. And he’s kind, fully realizing it’s not just my golf swing he holds in his teacher hands. Golf is important, and I’m fragile … he could crush me like … [Read more...]
Teacher’s Corner: John Cassidy
BEEN THERE, tried that, found this, did that. At 32, John Cassidy is no old man. But he's been around. "I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time working and playing and learning a lot from a lot of different people," says Cassidy, a teaching professional at Alderbrook Golf Club in Union, Wash. "I … [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...]
About damn time
IT WAS A SIMPLE MATH problem, elementary even, and for doing it there was no good reason … life, science or golf. Anybody who was gifted a dozen golf balls this last week of the year might have considered, if fleetingly, the same mental exercise: How to rearrange the 12 in sleeves of three, … [Read more...]
Have tool, will smoke: The one golf gadget you deserve
IT WOULD BE EASY to think of The Cigardian as a solution without a problem. You, because you smoke, already have a clip of some kind, or a notch cut in the leather of your bag, or something to hold your burning cigar … while you go putt, just long enough for the flame to go out. You, because … [Read more...]
The glitz guys of golf … and Dufner
Jason Dufner took the week off this week in North Carolina, just like all the other big-time guys on the Tour do after they win. Jason Dufner … big-time guy? Yeah, why not. Tiger Woods is there for the Wells Fargo at Quail Hollow … Mickelson too. Rory McIlroy, who might or might not be No. … [Read more...]
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