As Phil Mickelson remarkably demonstrated at this year’s PGA Championship, age and experience make a potent combination. Dottie Pepper confirms… Read more »
Heed Your Elders, You Whippersnappers!
Posts Tagged: Sam Snead
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 »
Going the Distance
[This one was evergreen when I wrote it in 2015 and updated it in 2021. But it should be noted… Read more »
History Lessons, and Lessons
Maybe the hour has arrived to call a timeout on golf books that put a particular tournament under the microscope…. Read more »
Glory Days
Yes, Virginia, there was golf before Tiger Woods, even before Arnold Palmer. And in both Jim Dodson’s American Triumvirate (Knopf,… Read more »
Happy 100th, Sam Snead
[May 27, 2012]–Sam Snead poked me in the stomach. More than once. I’ve told this tale before, but with Snead’s… Read more »
In the Virginia Territories
They’re both rural, and it takes some getting to get there. One’s in Sam Snead territory, the other near Andy… Read more »
Swing Into the Past at Oakhurst Links
Visits to shrines don’t often lead to hilarity. But then the 1884 Oakhurst Links golf course is unlike other shrines. Oh, there are ghosts on the property, all right, but they’re pretty benign, watching over those engaged in sport, rather than some graver exchange.
