Oregon Golf: Going Off-Trail to Wildhorse Resort
In the high desert east of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, ride on toward the Native American owned Wildhorse Resort and Casino,… Read more »
Golf
Kevin Na’s Sweet Sixteen
How does a PGA TOUR player take a 16 on a hole? Easy. He misses the putt for 15. How… Read more »
Nike VR Pro Driver– ahh, distance! ooh, accuracy!
Earlier this year Nike introduced the VR Pro Driver to follow their irons of the same name. The pear-shaped driver… Read more »
You Da Woman! An Early Mother’s Day Tribute
Mother’s Day is a great time to celebrate Alice Dye, not so much for coproducing golf course architecture progeny P.B…. Read more »
TaylorMade Golf’s New Poster Child? You’re Looking at Him.
I am the TaylorMade Golf Poster Child. Not Dustin Johnson. Not Martin Kaymer. Not Justin Rose or Sean O’Hair or… Read more »
70-year-old Whiskey to Aid Japanese Relief Efforts
My new best friend David Urquhart, a managing partner in Scottish whisky purveyor Gordon and MacPhail, has asked me to… Read more »
Best Brewpub in Oregon? Barley Brown’s in Baker City (yum, slurp, etc.)!
On a recent magazine assignment to Baker City, Oregon– the “Deadwood” of the Northwest– I was encouraged to check out… Read more »
Travel Tip #1: Act Like a Local
Act like a local. If you’re in a country where the men cover their legs at all times, put on… Read more »
Martin Kaymer, Dressed Like Old West Outlaw, Loses in Shootout
If you were to refer to the Match Play Championship, held at Tucson’s Dove Mountain recently, as “a shootout,” then… Read more »
Please Bogey This Hole
Several years ago, I was playing Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s Royal Westmoreland Golf Course in Barbados with the architect himself. … Read more »
