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 »
The Bookshelf
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
