My column on the U.S. Ryder Cup collapse appeared last night on Sympatico: Choke. It is a simple word, but in sports it comes with massive implications. But there is no other word that...
Tag - Tiger Woods
Book review: Steve Williams’ Out of the Rough
Book Review: Out of the Rough by Steve Williams I expected very little from Out of the Rough by former Tiger Woods caddy Steve...
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Sean Foley moves on from Woods, and observations on his current...
I had a very interesting chat with Sean Foley about a week ago that I turned into a column for the international edition of...
Read More Should Canadian Open become a WGC event?
Should we sacrifice the RBC Canadian Open? That seems to be what Golf Canada executive director Scott Simmons was raising while...
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We Don't Need Another Brookline…
Even though we still have several weeks left in the PGA golf season, the “big” season effectively ended last weekend with the wrap-up event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs; The Tour Championship...
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 neighbour back in London borrowed it and never returned it to...
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 fortunate to have mixed myself in with a wacky, remarkably...
Sympatico: Can McIlroy surpass Woods?
My latest Sympatico column went online on Friday. It tries to cut through some of the hyperbole about Rory McIlroy following his win at the PGA Championship: Being great is, apparently...
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...
Burning Rubber and Olympic Flaming
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...
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. ...
The Open Championship (is all you have to say)
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...