I asked my friend and frequent golfing companion Sanders a few weeks ago if he would rather start bogey-birdie-par, or birdie-par-bogey. He gave me a very...
The forecast was for scattered thunderstorms across the area and the clouds were already building from the south when we teed off at 8:30 in the...
I’m on a trip now where there won’t be any golf for almost three weeks. Since I live in Southern California and play year-round, this will...
I’ve always been both awed and intimidated by private golf clubs. In general, the members of private courses aren’t better golfers – or better people –...
You know you’re a golfer when… You tell the restaurant hostess that you’ll be a foursome for dinner. You think something “sub-par” must be really, really...
I was always an early-morning man, a dew-sweeper. When I didn’t already have a tee time, I’d get to the course an hour before sunrise on...
In the past few years, I’ve paid as much as $350 to play a round of golf and I’ve paid as little as $10. Granted, the...
Even pro golfers make double-bogeys. In fact, I can say with great certainty that everyone reading this is among that wide fraternity, which includes pretty much...
I’ve been in a driving slump lately. Balls that once reliably went straight and (by my standards) long now may go left, right, or may not...
An anonymous pro golfer commented on one of my articles last month (What score makes you happy?) saying that he’d once shot a 60 and hadn’t...
If you asked a dozen golfers which type of hole they prefer — a par-3, a par-4 or a par-5 — I’d be surprised if any said...
There’s often a point in a round of golf, most typically after my second consecutive double-bogey, when I wonder what I’m doing, why I’m wasting my...
Final scores are arbitrary markers of success and failure. It’s almost random how the same numbers can add up to make one player happy and another...
Golf is not only about making the shots, or making the putts. No, before that, golf is about making the time, especially if you have a...
They call him a ranger, a players’ host or a course ambassador, but usually, the marshal is just an older guy who spends a couple of...
What’s your favorite shot? I mean other than the tap-in for birdie? “A big drive, out past everyone I’m playing with,” said Eddie, who’d out-driven me...
I’ve made three free throws in a row before; before, as in a long, long time ago, and I made maybe five or six in a...
Except for the par-3, 16th hole at the TPC Scottsdale where the pros play in a coliseum-like setting with 20,000 fans chanting, singing, cheering, and even...
Everyone thinks the three worst words in golf are “You’re still away.” I think that’s wrong. I think the three worst words are “Out of bounds.”...
In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help...
In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help...
In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help...
