The A Position

Ailsa Amber Ale is currently available in only one place in the world, and I’m lucky enough to be here--at the Turnberry Resort in southwest Scotland. The beer is named after the Ailsa golf course, easily among the world’s most enchanting as it plays along the Ayrshire coast. In most recent memorable memory, it was the scene of the 2009 Open Championship, when Tom Watson almost turned back time, only to fall short at the final hole, and then lose in the playoff to Stewart Cink. Watson will return July 26-29 for the Senior Open Championship. He’ll be able to stay ...

Or: Tow Hell And Back! Having lived around New York my entire life and in the city the last seven years, it's nice to know there are still new experiences to be had here. However, going to the Police Department's Tow Pound to get my car back is one I just as soon would have passed on. At least now I can cross it off my bucket list. I was so excited driving back into the city yesterday afternoon to find a spot right across the street from our apartment. Pulled in, turned off the car, and because it's a street I park ...

In the year of his grieving, 2001, Scott Willis would hop in his car and just drive south from Brattleboro, Vermont, on Route 5, the back road through Guilford, into Bernardston, Massachusetts, Greenfield, Deerfield, as far as he needed to go until his equilibrium returned. Then he’d turn around and head home. His father, Ed, had died that June, and then the shock of 9/11 just compounded the dislocation. Golf had been a big part of Scott’s childhood in Walpole and Keene, New Hampshire. He would caddy for his dad and mom, he and his dad would play together occasionally, ...

New service for US Golfers  Golfweather.com, an online weather forecast service for golf courses and golf destinations, is now tracking up-to-the-minute weather conditions at over 16,000 golf courses throughout the U.S.  The brainchild of South African entrepreneur Moshe Adir, a 14-year veteran of online start-up businesses, Golfweather.com is a golfer’s 15th club in the bag offering accurate and real-time seven-day forecasts that include temperature, wind speed and direction, comfort level and probability of rain. “We gather raw weather data from renowned meteorological organizations and institutions to provide longitude and latitude location-based forecasts for each golf club in the U.S. and around the world, ...