Going With the Flow
Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have been coaching some of the professional game’s top players, and rank amateurs, for decades… Read more »
Rummaging Around in the Bag
Hopeless But Optimistic: Douglas Wissing on Afghanistan
I was about halfway though Hopeless But Optimistic: Journeying through America’s Endless War in Afghanistan ($30, Indiana University Press)—admittedly a… Read more »
Arnie, and Other Life Stories
[May 26, 2017]–The 2017 Arnold Palmer Invitational ended in an exciting and sweetly sentimental fashion. The nostalgic mood surrounding the… Read more »
“Tommy’s Honour” Goes Far and Sure
[May 22, 2017]–Add “Tommy’s Honour” to that minuscule cinematic niche—golf movies that aren’t goofy comedies. Based on Kevin Cook’s book… Read more »
Why Isn’t Gil Hodges in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
[Updated Dec.6, 2021]–I guess I can retire this piece now, as it appears to have done its work! Gil Hodges made… Read more »
Wodehouse on Golf and Other Tales
It may be a function of growing older, or simply wading into the wrong streams of literature, that I find… Read more »
A Wednesday Walk in America
[Nov. 30, 2016]–I took a walk on Upper Dummerston Road this morning while JB Auto was putting the snow tires… Read more »
Let’s Get Personal
Shortly after a round of golf at the La Moraleja Club near Madrid in October, 1977, Bing Crosby dropped dead… Read more »
Put Me In, Coach
The master of sports participatory journalism, the late George Plimpton no doubt remains best known for Paper Lion, his 1966… Read more »
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 »
