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 fact, he still is to this day. Nothing, absolutely nothing...
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Oak Hill Notebook: Moving Day at the PGA
It was a stunning day at Oak Hill for the third round of the 2013 PGA Championship. Moving day saw 2nd round leader Jason Dufner...
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Hoist With His Own Petard
I’ll be honest with you here folks. I’m not 100% sure what a petard is. I’m pretty sure I used to have one…but then my...
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Golf Like Frenchman – Time to Mix Up Your Game
Warning; the following story is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Over the years I’ve been extremely...
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5-Ring Fail(?) and Wyndham in Your Sail
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...
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, sitting in his command chair on the USS Enterprise...
A Great Month to be Canadian!
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. ...
After the Carnage…
Another nail-biting U.S. Open is in the record books. For most of the combatants, another 4 days of hell are now in the rear-view mirror. The only remnants of the week remaining are the...
For The Father Who Has Everything…
Take McIlroy to win…he misses the cut. Shrug it off as a glitch, take him again in the next tournament…he misses the cut. Stubbornly insist he couldn’t possibly miss 3 in...
Mini-Me…Hogan's Alley Style
“I was torn between Dufner, Wagner, Pettersson and Harrington for this final spot, but in the end, decided to go with the defending champ instead.” Famous last words from last week’s column...
Björn on the Bayou
Back in the late 17th century, when I was a wee lad, Björn Borg was the greatest tennis player to stalk the planet. He crushed everyone in his path on the way to 5 straight Wimbledon...
On Gizmos and Gators
Technology is a wonderful, miraculous thing. And I’ll be the first person to admit that I’m an unashamed, gob-smacked, star-struck fan of all things magical from the worlds of science and...