James Dodson and Tom Callahan Tee It Up at Brattleboro Literary Festival
It’s been said that the smaller the ball, the better the writing, and two of the best in the business… Read more »
Personalities
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 »
Can You Name the Five Amateurs Who Won the U.S. Open?
[This post has been updated for the 2022 U.S. Open, here.] The cut line was at +1 when the day… 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 »
Eight Years On
[Jan. 16, 2017]–On this day of observing Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, something jiggled my memory, and I went into… 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 »
Seve, the Tearjerker
[April, 2016]– I suspect it would be difficult even for Paul Azinger to remain dry-eyed through a showing of “Seve,… 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 »
