the view from the West Beach, Old Course on the right, the 1st and 18th plus the R&A clubhouse in the middle. Old Course Hotel to the right (you can hit it from 17 tee, although the better shot is to just go over the end of the hotel many...
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Everyone who is old enough remembers exactly where they were when JFK was shot…or when the Shuttle Challenger exploded…or when the first win tower came tumbling down. I suspect everyone will remember where they were when this latest...
Well, the quadrennial competition we know and love as the Olympic Games are now in our rear view mirror, and TV coverage notwithstanding, most people seem to agree that the games themselves were a spectacular success. Organizers of the London...
This week’s funniest Olympics-related gag: There’s a poster circulating on the Internet, showing a flummoxed Jean-Luc Picard, sitting in his command chair on the USS Enterprise, disbelieving head in hand. The caption underneath proclaims;...
Funniest Olympics-related gag so far: Last Tuesday 9 Olympians were sent home in disgrace, after being caught taking steroids and other performance-enhancing substances. One of those cheats was Olympic medallist Nataliya Tobias. Apparently...
I’m suffering from a serious case of “Dumper’s Remorse” today. No, I didn’t attend a member-guest at a fancy schmancy private course this weekend and ignominiously shart on the front nine. Thanks for asking. And no, I didn’t attend a posh...
And…I’m back. After an unexpected week off, welcome back to Poolside; your home for whatever the hell it is that I do here. If you missed me last week, your time has run out. Sorry about your luck. My “luck,” on the other hand, was...
As both of you who read this column on a regular basis know, we moved to the Ottawa area back in November. For the sake of convenience, I usually just say “Ottawa” to people who aren’t from the immediate area, because very few have actually...
There’s an old British saying that goes something like this; “Guy Fawkes was the last man in history who entered the British Houses of Parliament with honest intentions.” And given the destructive, “our party must win...