Personalities

Tiger and Friends: Working the Media at Augusta

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In case you missed my report, which originally ran on Mediaite.com, on last Monday’s press conference that Tiger Woods held... Read more »

Review of “What We Are,” Peter Nathaniel Malae

John Strawn

A writer as good as Russell Banks wouldn’t blurb a novel unless he believed in its author’s talent, so when... Read more »

Hank Haney’s Growing To-Do List

Jason Kerkmans

Hank Haney has a new project. This time it’s funnyman Ray Romano. The former star of the sitcom, Everybody Loves... Read more »

Casper Closes Them Out in ’59

Rainstorms and quirky strategy went into the books, along with Casper's victory in the '59 Open at Winged Foot

David Gould

[ Part III of a three-part series ] Billy Casper, whose previous best Open finish was 14th place at Oak... Read more »

Canadian Sean Foley a rising star among PGA Tour coaches

Tim O'Connor

With a mind that rarely stops whirring and a jam-packed schedule, Sean Foley doesn’t have many quiet moments. But every... Read more »

Billy Casper Holed Them in the Pitch Dark

David Gould

Billy Casper, who 40 years ago won his only Masters, was a putter for the ages—rolling his ball so prodigiously... Read more »

Choosing The Right Club

Jeff Wallach

For my Father, Sidney Wallach, June 11, 1925-February 9, 2010. I’m in the garage of my parents pink house in... Read more »

My Breakfast With the President

Tom Bedell

Obama has multiple reasons to point Air Force One toward Ireland. Anyone who has heard the Corrigan Brothers song, “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama” (or seen it performed on YouTube), knows the President’s great great great grandfather was born in the Irish village of Moneygall.