Where and How to Play
Tom Doak is back with the second installment of his planned five-volume compilation of “The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses,”… Read more »
Courses and Travel
You Say Tomato, I Say Branson
[Apr. 21, 2016]–The second annual Reeds Spring Tomato Festival was held last August, near Branson, Missouri, complete with a Little… Read more »
Of Time and Tide
It’s a minor annoyance to me when traveling to distant courses that few of the hosts seem to know what… Read more »
Falling for Myrtle
[According to an app on my phone, winter is still 38 days, nine hours, 13 minutes and 30 seconds and… Read more »
An Omni Top Five
[Oct. 22, 2015]–An announcement rolled in a couple of days ago that anyone staying at any one of the eleven*… Read more »
On the Road and in Your Head
As a journalist frequently reporting on golf travel I’ve stocked up on my share of frequent flier miles. But I… Read more »
Hold the Open Championship in Australia!
This piece first appeared, in somewhat different form, as “A Convenient Truth: The Open Championship Should Be Held in Australia”… Read more »
Good Old Days, Brand New Swing
Sit by yourself in a restaurant, start doodling on the paper tablecloth, and you never know where it might take… Read more »
Read the Books, See the Movie
It should have been no great surprise that one of the positive pre-release blurbs for “The Squeeze” was from Phil… Read more »
Chambers Bay Ups Its Game
The former Lone Star mine in University Place, Washington, has served Pierce County well. The gravel pulled from the mine… Read more »
