Books Their Ownselves
His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir (Doubleday, $26.95) plays on the titles of two of Dan Jenkins’ best-selling football novels, Semi-Tough and… Read more »
The Bookshelf
Life in the Book Lane
My original plan was to play a round with the usual foursome, better known as the MOTO Research Team. (Long… Read more »
Mental, and Elemental, Golf
I’m writing this piece with a broken finger, no way to start a golf season. But at least I have… Read more »
Youth Will Be Served
Take two golf-obsessed high school seniors wondering what to do after graduation, set them out on the road with their… Read more »
It’s a Big World Out There, So Start Drinking
It may have been more than twenty years ago at some Midwest outpost we’d journeyed to that Stephen Beaumont and… Read more »
Grappling With Golf
The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club in Illinois begin the evening of September 27…. 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 »
Behind the Ropes
Hank Haney has written a book. This may not be news, and you may already have an opinion about whether… Read more »
What Golf Ball Through Yonder Window Breaks?
I belong to a Shakespeare group. Not a troupe, a group, which meets now and again to read through the… Read more »
When Tiger Was Young…
Part of my admiration for the late Herbert Warren Wind’s writings for The New Yorker was the way he could… Read more »
