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LATEST: Golf in the Time of Corona
22 June 2020
For one glorious Sunday afternoon in the middle of June, a small ray of golfing light shone upon the bleak American sports landscape. Baseball’s labor pains, Black Lives Mattering within the NBA’s Orlando “bubble”, the NHL trying to finish its season before winter begins, Confederate flags flying at NASCAR racetracks…all of these weighty subjects could briefly be forgotten.
Because at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa both lipped out crucial four-foot putts – putts that you or I would make at least seven times out of ten – in horrifying fashion.
Their agony in defeat, and Daniel Berger’s muted ecstasy in victory, were emotions remarkable for their rarity in competitive sports at any level since early March. Two golfing exhibitions in May – one of which featured Tom Brady and Peyton Manning – were thin gruel for sports fans starved of normalcy. And while the absence of sports must rank low on any list of the world’s many miseries in 2020, the PGA Tour’s return was a much needed mental salve for golfers like me, and proof that lockdown life need not deny us all of our favorite distractions.
Clear sightlines, no temporary immovable obstructions and ridiculous free drops, and no drunken shouts of “MASHED POTATO!” are all PGA Tour novelties I could get used to.
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Back in the ATL
20 September 2019
In mid-September, I went home for five days. Or rather, I went back to Atlanta, where I grew up from the age of four until I went to college. “Home” is a squidgy concept to an expat living abroad.
I’ve lived in the UK for more than 20 years. My wife is Scottish. She and our two children all have red hair. (I do not.) Driving to my nearest beach takes five minutes; from Atlanta, it took five hours. For various reasons, I have struggled to form close friendships with people in Britain. But I love being here. (More...)
The Major Specialist
17 June 2019
When Tiger Woods won his fifth Masters Tournament in April, he instantly and easily became golf’s number one story again. Everyone was asking the same questions: Could Tiger become the world’s number one golfer again? Was Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major titles now perhaps within reach? Would Bethpage Black and Pebble Beach prove happy hunting grounds for him once more?
But following the recent PGA Championship and US Open, here’s what everyone should now be asking: is Brooks Koepka the best major championship specialist of all time? (More...)
