Dec
02
Ever notice when you pick up certain newspapers, how the newsprint rubs off onto your fingers, and leaves you feeling dirty? That in a nutshell is why I never pick up rags like the National Enquirer. Not only is it embarrassing to be seen thumbing throug… more »
Oct
18
To date, Natalie Gulbis has won only once on the LPGA Tour - the 2007 Evian Masters. She was wielding a uniquely effective putter that week, a flat stick she used not only in that lone victory, but also in a runner-up performance, an additional third-pla… more »
Sep
23
Biwabik, Minnesota isn't likely to be on anybody's Top 10,000 golf destinations. (Let's get the pronunciation down first: "Bi," like a baby's bib, but without the final 'b. "Wa" like a baby's cry, and "Bik" like the namesake pen. Now say it out loud slow… more »
Sep
17
My email inbox often serves as a clearinghouse for the PR reps of every crackpot, half-baked, trivial, ridiculous and downright unnecessary golf contraption known to mankind. Time and space constraints prevent me from any sort of comprehensive listing, b… more »
Sep
08
You can burn through multiple tanks of gas traversing all of Minnesota's highways, byways and fairways in search of the state's best golf. But if time and efficiency are the watchwords, there's one single destination that will satisfy: Brainerd Lakes Reg… more »
Aug
31
One decade, about 500-or-so golf courses, and some 60 FAM trips ago, I made my inaugural foray into the far reaches of the golf world - off I went to Minnesota. I was a 30-something cub reporter on that initial visit, and learned that the Land of 10,000… more »
Aug
07
A short time ago I blogged about the variety of private-club golf riches in Columbus, Ohio. But what if, unlike Tony Soprano, one isn't "connected?" Columbus-bound private club devotees are, as a Scotsman might say, "spoiled for choice," but in the publi… more »
Aug
05
With sticks in tow, I travel around more in a year than most golfers do in five. (This proclamation EXCLUDES members of the PGA Tour, Champions, Nationwide, Hooters, LPGA, Duramed Futures, etc.)
I’ve long been used to dragging my casket-sized travel… more »
Aug
03
The golf cognoscenti know that there are fewer cities, pound-for-pound, with a richer variety of quality private golf clubs than surprising Columbus, Ohio.
The longtime "Big Four" include venerable Scioto Country Club, a recently restored Donald Ross… more »
Jul
27
Even by the normally frenetic Vagabond Golfer standards, this latest foray to the Northeast was supercharged. My travel-to-golf pace generally falls between intense and insane, but July's day-to-day was unsurpassed in my personal annals for the combinati… more »
May
12
About 16 or 17 years back, and close to 600 golf courses ago, I was first exposed to a wonderland called Crumpin-Fox Golf Club. This is a delightfully hilly and serene walk through the woods in the northern Massachusetts town of Bernardston, adjacent to… more »
Apr
21
What do these two groups of golfers have in common?
Group One: Palmer-Nicklaus—Irwin—Miller—Watson—Norman—Stewart-Faldo.
Group Two: Loren Roberts-Stewart Cink-Glen Day-Jose Coceres-Aaron Baddeley-Peter Lonard-Boo Weekley-Brian Gay
It… more »
Mar
26
It would be great being Geoff Ogilvy. He's one of pro golf's finest players, leading the 2009 Money List with nearly 3 million bucks, and closing in on 20 million in career earnings. He's a former U.S. Open Champion, and has won 3 World Golf Championship… more »
Feb
02
Just a quick note to let those of you in the blogosphere know that I am extremely honored to have learned that my latest book, titled Pete Dye--Golf Courses, was named as the Book of the Year by the International Network of Golf at last week's PGA Show i… more »
Jan
23
I had a unique experience this past Monday evening at venerable Coral Ridge CC in Ft. Lauderdale, where the 77th annual Doherty Cup was being contested. For the second time in three years I was asked to be the dinner speaker for this gathering of some o… more »
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