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There’s no next-best thing

April 2, 2020 By Bart Potter 2 Comments

We begin at the top when we start in to list the global sporting championships compromised by COVID-19. It's no joking matter, so we speak in hushed tones about postponement of the Bent Shaft Classic and lesser world events. It's not a tragedy. It's just a golf tournament. But what will we do with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Bent Shaft Classic, COVID-19, Golf, Grey Goatee Golf Association, PGA Championship, The Masters, The Open Championship, U.S. Open

Prelapsarianism

June 14, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Pebble Beach, The Masters, U.S. Open, Webster's Unabridged

Pebbles of wisdom

June 12, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Let it be said the United States' Goffin' Association knows how to put on a spectacle, and the U.S. Open, this one here, is at the consensus No. 1 public golf course in Grey Goatee Nation, which means you can play it in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Grey Goatee Global HQ, Pebble Beach, U.S. Open

Order on the course

January 4, 2019 By Bart Potter 1 Comment

The phrase is deus ex machina. The meaning is fluid, as far as I can tell, but it seems in popular usage to be something unexpected that for no obvious reason makes sense of gibberish or substance of nothingness. Herewith golf, the simplest game. Its goal, its very essence, is simple, which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar, Rules of Golf, U.S. Open, USGA

World No. 388

March 8, 2018 By Bart Potter 2 Comments

Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Tiger Woods ... all within the top 388 in the World Golf Rankings, which makes the Valspar Championship just about the best field of a non-major this season. Oh, to be No. 388 in the world. The love, the money, the invitation to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar, Henrik Stenson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, The Masters, Tiger Woods, U.S. Open

You read it here first

June 15, 2017 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Please: No wagering whatsoever should result from the insider knowledge you will absorb from these U.S. Open predictions. It wouldn't be fair to all the other people, millions of them, for as many reasons, who don't read in this space. Dustin Johnson won't repeat. Martin Kaymer won't win … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA Tour, Adam Hadwin, Dustin Johnson, Grey Goatee, Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas, LPGA, Lucas Glover, Martin Kaymer, U.S. Open, USGA

This post is in its third or fourth rain delay

June 16, 2016 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

What the talking heads talk about on the first day of the U.S. Open when they’re not talking about players playing because players aren’t playing because of the weather: They talk about the golf course (on which nobody much is playing). They say the obvious play on the 519-yard par-4 15th is to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off CourseTagged With: Andrew Landry, Bryson DeChambeau, Oakmont, Tiger Woods, U.S. Open, USGA

This year’s June major

February 19, 2016 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The golf course with the richest major-championship pedigree in the Pacific Northwest will host another major this spring when the KPMG Women's PGA Championship comes to the region. It's not Chambers Bay. Sahalee Country Club, host of the KPMG June 9-12, is in many ways the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA Tour, Chambers Bay, KPMG Women's PGA Championship, LPGA, PGA Champions Tour, PGA Tour, Sahalee Country Club, Seattle Golf and Travel Show, U.S. Open

Cold hard luck

January 12, 2016 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

“He could miss.” “Nah, he’s not gonna miss.” “He could miss.” This conversation, however apt for Sunday’s Seahawk playoff win, actually took place last June on the top row of the grandstand by the 17th green at Chambers Bay Golf Course, the back of which directly overlooked the teebox on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, UncategorizedTagged With: Blair Walsh, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Seahawks, U.S. Open

A last look at The Lone Fir Tree

June 21, 2015 By Bart Potter 1 Comment

It survived a working gravel and sand mine. It lived on through the abandoned site's conversion to a championship golf course. It's a Douglas fir tree, not very large or symmetrical, but now that the U.S. Open is here (and soon to leave), it makes No. 15 at Chambers Bay Golf Course the postcard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, Road Holes, The Craft, The Green Game, UncategorizedTagged With: Chambers Bay Golf Course, David Wienecke, The Lone Fir Tree, U.S. Open

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