When he retired from a high-powered three decade-plus career with ExxonMobil as engineer and executive at the age of 58,… Read more »
Different Ways Around the Course
Posts Tagged: Augusta National
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 »
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
What, another book about Tiger? No? Two new books about Tiger? Oy! Well, book reviewers gotta do what book reviewers… Read more »
Companions on the Couch or on the Course
Where better to have a literary discussion than at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, where the lettered ghosts… 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 »
BBQ and the Masters, Too
To the surprise of absolutely no one 2015 Masters winner Jordan Spieth, charged with the menu choice for the Tuesday-before-the-Masters… 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 »
Mellencamp and Hartough Make the Cut in Augusta
The last day of this year’s Masters is also the last day of the exhibit “American Dreams: Paintings by John… Read more »
The Compelling Drama of Golf
Greg Norman didn’t play in the U.S. Senior Open at Oak Tree National this year. But he’ll certainly be present… Read more »
Masters Trivia You Can’t Live Without
[If now officially an oldie, this one seems worth rolling each year come Masters time, since some trivia never fades….] … Read more »
