Of Needles and Haystacks
Waiting for the ferry I watch Strangford Lough tighten and boil whitely through a last narrow chute. Somewhere beyond a… Read more »
Golf
Looking For Signs
Snowing. Again. We live in our zip codes and take what we get. Up here on the mountain, winter is… Read more »
Coming Up Silver
Only a bigamist has as much to celebrate in 2011 as do I. This year I mark not one, but… Read more »
From Course to Course, High Plains Drifting
The first and second at The Sand Hills Club On America’s High Plains, towns announce themselves as clusters of silvery… Read more »
Royal County Down: Irish Golf’s Dark Star
We worked our way up Ireland’s eastern coastline from Dublin toward Belfast with one of the world’s big boys, Royal… Read more »
Surf’s Up, Scores Are Too, at Kiawah’s Ocean Course
How formidable a challenge is the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, South Carolina? Mike Vegis, the resort’s public relations director,… Read more »
Aberdovey and Bernard Darwin
The links at Aberdovey, Wales, as you see, are not a difficult place to get up an afternoon’s worth of… Read more »
Seafront Beauty: Wales’ Royal Porthcawl
The story is told of a prospective guest player appearing at the office door of Royal Porthcawl’s club secretary. A… Read more »
New York Irish
Architect Steven Kay likens a good golf course to a good movie. “I like to design holes that absorb golfers… Read more »
