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Watching scenes from Augusta National on Monday of Masters Week, life gets greener. With the advent of spring upon me and the weight of two golf bags resting on each shoulder, I’ve had the time to think about some things over the past three days. Back on the verdant grass of another golfing sanctuary assuming my other self as caddy to the well off, you get to thinking about time and its passing. For...
Published: April 6, 2010
The most compelling sporting event I’ve ever seen? 1986 Masters, Final Round. No doubt. The golfers amongst you must remember this: Jack’s birdie on 10 put him at four under for the tournament. He would go on to post a final score of nine under. That’s six under par on the back nine at Augusta in the final round of The Masters. That’s insanity. Think about it. Invest ten minutes...
Published: February 27, 2010
Buried in a bit article on the New York Times Web site is the announcement that the marriage between Gatorade and Tiger Woods is officially over. The sports drink company had previously announced that it was discontinuing its “Tiger Woods” drink. Today’s announcement signals the complete separation between the two. Two days ago, I received a golf equipment catalog—one of the...
Published: February 14, 2010
Ah, there he is. Exhibit A for members of “Golf is Not a Sport” nation. They ask how a fat guy can be considered an athlete. That if you don’t play offense or defense, it’s not a sport. The officers of the club are named Vinnie from Brooklyn or Brooks from Austin or Sterling from Resida. Doesn’t matter, though. They all agree that the playing of golf is not in the same...
Published: January 9, 2010
You are standing on the tee box of hole number two called “Redan” at Somerset Hills Country Club in Bernardsville, New Jersey (pictured). On a course noted for its outstanding par threes, Redan stands out. Somerset Hills is an A.W. Tillinghast design golf course. In addition to Somerset Hills, Tillinghast also designed such classic courses as Winged Foot, Baltusrol, San Francisco, Ridgewood,...
Published: December 31, 2009
Following in Accenture’s (whatever the heck they “do”), Tag Heuer’s (“ridiculously good-looking” watches), Gillete’s (“as good/’bad’ as a man can get”), and partially Gatorade’s (purveyors of the sanctimoniously named “G” line of sports drinks for the masses) footsteps, AT&T is ending its sponsorship of the suddenly...