In the Air and on the Ground
Why do we keep playing this maddening game of golf? It’s so hard, so frustrating, so elusive in so many… Read more »
Courses and Travel
South by Southwest
[This piece first appeared, in slightly different form, in the Fall 2021 issue of Minnesota Golfer magazine. It managed to… Read more »
Odds and Ends From the Vermont Amateur
I doubt if the recent VGA Vermont Amateur Championship on July 5-7 could have gone much better. Except for some… Read more »
The Long (and Winding) Road to Whistling Straits
I’ve brazenly appropriated and amended the subtitle to Shane Ryan’s new book for my own above, since he does meander… Read more »
Brattleboro Country Club’s Championship Seasons
[July 4, 2022]—“I’ll be working and competing this year,” said Dave Evans, the Brattleboro Country Club superintendent. Evans was referring… Read more »
Big changes (if shorter length) coming to the International Golf Club, Bolton, MA
The souvenir cap and the new club logo says 1901, but the website of the International Golf Club in Bolton,… Read more »
Brattleboro Country Club to host 2022 Vermont Amateur July 5-7
The first major tournament of the 2022 season in Vermont, the 116th playing of the Vermont Amateur Championship, will take… Read more »
Book Now, Play Later
Golf during the pandemic was blissful—open air, companionship, automatic social distancing thanks to spraying our shots all over the courses…. Read more »
Hitting the Slopes in Northern Michigan
It might be right up there with the sale of Manhattan for $24. In 1947 Everett Kircher ran a Studebaker… Read more »
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 »
