Throw enough money at Americans and they can ignore state-sponsored terrorism, brutal repression of women and girls, and murder, just as easily as anybody. Sort of like today, when the PGA Tour accepted sufficient billions from Saudi Arabia to execute a screaming-tire U-turn and merge its acronym … [Read more...]
Sheikh yer money-maker
1:25 a.m. GGMT (Grey Goatee Mean Time) JoeRob Biden is in the Middle East right now with a complicated itinerary and a crowded agenda that maybe won’t have the LIV Golf Tour as a central talking point when he hunkers down with Crown Prince Sheikh Yerbootie Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia but … [Read more...]
Present tense
Right about now, in a normal year, Phil Mickelson would be chatting up his annual attempt to win the U.S. Open, the only major he hasn't won, and that would be the only real topic, and he'd be charming, if you like his kind of shtick, like he was auditioning, as always, for the network analyst job … [Read more...]
Unforced edition
In the court of public opinion, Patrick Reed is like a case thrown out by a judge who never sees the evidence because there isn't any. He's like not wearing a mask in a pandemic because it diminishes his freedom, never mind that it might save lives -- an error, unforced and unnecessary, and … [Read more...]
Minnehaha explained
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...]
Wait for it …
The next big thing in big-time men's golf is the Presidents Cup in December, and boy oh boy our boys are eager to win one for the prez in Australia, right there where people remember how our hero alienated the Aussie prime minister over the telephone, butt-dialed him or something, then got pissy … [Read more...]
Entrapped epiglottis edition
Omaha Beach was scratched from Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, meaning, among other things, that he won’t win the Triple Crown but might otherwise expect a decent career as an elite thoroughbred racer before retiring to the barn to party like a stud pony. I know you or I, faced with the same life … [Read more...]
Of galleries and geese
Pernilla Lindberg isn't big, at 5-foot-5, so she's no Big Swede out of Sweden, the Scandinavian country in Scandinavia, but she can claim a professional major on her resume, which puts her in the company of countrypersons Annika Sorenstam and Henrik Stenson, the original Big Swede. Lindberg is … [Read more...]
X marks the winner
Match play continues this week with the big boys, and it's down to the Sweet 16 already. Chalk has prevailed, right down the brackets, with the top three seeds moving on in every region, like they knew what they were doing when they drew it up. They fucking didn't -- they got lucky -- and … [Read more...]
Scarecrow edition
The LPGA is playing this week at the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, the longest golf course name in the known world, which only means the LPGA has too many sponsors it's trying to appease. Maybe they're overthinking it. Maybe not. I like to think like my … [Read more...]
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