Chubby Chandler’s Gamble Pays Off for Darren Clarke
When Darren Clarke won the Open Championship last week, he not only collected the $1.4 million first prize money from… Read more »
Personalities
Review of “The Swinger”
The Swinger is the kind of novel the French call a roman à clef. A literary strategy designed to pillory… Read more »
Hooray for Rory–We Knew You Could Do It!
Rory McIlroy’s Masters’ meltdown will now recede into merciful memory, annihilated by his exhilarating march to victory at the 2011… Read more »
Rory McIlroy: Better than Three Spaniards and as Good as Three Swedes. An Incomparable Start to the US Open.
Not only has the new USGA Executive Director, Mike Davis, transformed the US Open by his innovative approach to setting… Read more »
Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle Buys Gearhart Golf Links.
There hasn’t been a lot of great news in the golf business lately, so when I heard that Tim Boyle,… Read more »
Golf and Boxing: Unlikely Cousins in the Arena, Seen Through the Vision of Novelist Katherine Dunn.
Last week, the novelist Katherine Dunn died of lung cancer. I am proud to say that Katherine was a dear… Read more »
“Big in Beijing”–Review of an Accidental Rock Star’s Odyssey
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When the Wall Street Journal offered Alan Paul’s wife a posting to Beijing as its China bureau chief in 2005,… Read more »
The Myth of Course Obsolescence and the Influence of Non-conforming Equipment
My next door neighbor/brother-in-law/Luckiest Man in the World/the new Nostradamus, Lee Barrett, poked his head in the door this morning… Read more »
Tom Watson’s Advice Will Improve Your Game–A Great Golf Master Shares His Wisdom in “The Timeless Swing.”
Tom Watson is a class act, his character as sturdy as his everlasting swing. He treats the game with respect,… Read more »
Maybe Rory McIlroy Didn’t Win the 2011 Masters, But Once He Learns to Tame the Lizard, He Will Win the a Major.
Watching Rory McIlroy transmogrify during the final round of the Masters, morphing from the best golfer in the world, which he… Read more »
