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...
Tag - Charl Schwartzel
Armstrong v. Armstrong – One Small Step, One Giant Turd
We lost a truly great one this week folks. And we also revealed a bad one. When I was a boy, my hero was Neil Armstrong. In...
Read More
Let The Puckering Begin!
Everyone who is old enough remembers exactly where they were when JFK was shot…or when the Shuttle Challenger...
Read More
Kisses, Curses, Crow and Kiawah
This week’s funniest Olympics-related gag: There’s a poster circulating on the Internet, showing a flummoxed Jean-Luc Picard...
Read More
Canadian Open wrap: Round One
I spent part of the day walking with David Hearn’s father, Geoff, while watching the Brantford golfer play the back nine at Hamilton. Hearn played nicely when the course was at its...
Sympatico: Discussion of Canadian Open field about who...
My latest Sympatico column discusses the field at the Canadian Open and the fact no one seems to be raising any questions this year about who isn’t coming, and focusing on who is: For...
Long Live The King!
I saw an interview with John Cleese recently in which he was talking about the research of a friend of his, a fairly renowned professor at a very respectable US University (Cornell, I think...
On Self-Restraint and Pressure-Free Golf
According to my feeble memory, this weekend marks the fifth time that Tiger Woods has pulled out of a golf tournament in the last several years. If only he could have used that kind of...
Retribution and Bear Claws…uhh…Bear Traps
Seven short days ago I was wrapping away on these keys, bemoaning the bad hand the fates had dealt my daughter at the Northern Trust Open. All four picks from her D&D dartboard session...
Death Match…at Dove Mountain?
For the very first time since we started playing these silly reindeer games for CanadianGolfer, the fortunes of random chance completely crapped out last week. Snake eyes! For those of you...
PGA Tour season is too long
My latest Sympatico column is live, detailing how I think we could use a longer break from professional golf: Death, taxes and the PGA Tour. All three are unavoidable, never-ending forces...
And The Bleak Shall Inhibit Their Girth…
For me, one of the things that makes the TV coverage of the Tour Championship so vastly entertaining isn’t the enormous 10 million dollar payday on the line. Oh sure, the huge prize makes...