A Tree Grows in Manchester
I had the great pleasure of meeting Geoffrey Cornish early in the century, a little more than ten years before… Read more »
Courses and Travel
Farris Holliday’s Golfing Odyssey
It began in September, 2019, at the Coeur d’Alene Golf Course in Idaho, but by the time I caught up… Read more »
Jozefiak Bests Waite to Take Vermont Mid-Amateur Title
[BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Aug. 15, 2021] – It took six rounds, most played in blazing southern Vermont heat, but on the… Read more »
One Year, Many Courses; One Course, Many Years
Tom Coyne’s latest golfapalooza, A Course Called America (Avid Reader Press $28), comes on the soft-spiked heels of his popular… Read more »
On the Road and in the Stands
We’re roaming a bit—to Scotland, and into the spectators’ seats for a couple of books that aren’t strictly about golf… Read more »
On the Ground With Math and Memory
Jonathan Cummings doesn’t beat around the bush in introducing his treatise on the ranking of golf courses, The Rating Game (Post… Read more »
Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
The ink was barely dry on the morning’s papers last July 22 when a band of U.S. golf writers wandered… Read more »
Looking Ahead to the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
[This preview piece was written back in February for the Spring, 2019 issue of Minnesota Golfer. It appears here in… Read more »
Going Cajun in Louisiana’s Audubon Country
Louisiana’s new tourism slogan, “Feed Your Soul,” seems right on the money to me, having just returned* from a southern… Read more »
The Scottish Game
Though I’ve had a copy of Tom Coyne’s popular A Course Called Ireland on my bookshelf for years I’ve never gotten… Read more »
