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THAT DOG'LL HUNT

posted by Richard Lees on March 31, 2009 @ 12:31 PST

Great article by a favorite writer of mine, Tom McGuane, in last weekend’s “Outdoors” column of The Wall Street Journal. The connection between McGuane’s feelings about hunting and my feelings about golf became apparent in an early paragraph...

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GOLF COURSE PENTIMENTO

posted by Richard Lees on February 26, 2009 @ 15:11 PST

One of the subtler joys of observing golf courses is the study of their architecture and design. If a golfer is lucky enough to experience the restoration of a course’s original design after years or even decades have covered the architect’s original intent ...

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JOHN UPDIKE ON GOLF

posted by Richard Lees on January 29, 2009 @ 15:16 PST

John Updike died this week, and, like many, I took the kind of pleasure that made me laugh out loud when reading his words on “the greatest gemme.” I think it was George Plimpton who once said, “the smaller the ball, the better the prose.” And Updike, among others -- including our own Michael Murphy -- have certainly proven that maxim true over the years.

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SNOW COHEN

posted by Richard Lees on December 17, 2008 @ 15:33 PST

I keep a notebook of “Steve Cohen-ism’s” which, over the years I’ve known the founder and indefatigable leader of The Shivas Irons Society, has morphed into something I think of more as Koan-ism’s, as I’ve found that our conversations not only produce momentary smiles, but language that I find soothing when recollected in tranquility. There is no pretense about it -- we’re not talking Dr. Johnson and Boswell here -- but the subject is usually golf -- which is to say, life, at least as members of the Society seem to view “the both of ‘em.”

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ONE WINS -- THE OTHER DOESN"T

posted by Richard Lees on September 08, 2008 @ 15:30 PST
ONE WINS -- THE OTHER DOESN'T   When Camillo Villegas started smelling the finish line in his first Tour victory at the BMW last weekend, ...

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