Posts tagged as Golf
Another Journalist Bites the Dust
"I will say this about every single one of Tiger’s Golf Digest columns: they were competent and had no typographical errors." READ MORE
Treat U.S. Open Fatigue with the British Open
There are two things I do not give a flying fig about, and those are tennis and people who live outside of New York who have opinions on local landmark and zoning permit issues. Man, seriously, shut up about the tennis! I know: you people like it. That's nice. That being said, if you are a New Yorker subscriber, which surely you are, then you can read about the British Open, which is much more interesting in the telling by John McPhee than the U.S. Open is through the channels of the various unintelligible Twitters of New York Times employees with extraordinarily nebulous jobs.
The 2010 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National displayed its wariness with the evils of contemporary society quickly and efficiently. The signs at the entrance made everyone quite aware of the rules: there would be No Cell Phones, No Pagers, No Electronic Devices, No Guns, No Knives. They were more concerned with civility than the progress and survival of civilization. That may sound awkward or overly genteel, but civility turned out to be a lot more inviting than I had first thought. READ MORE
Sex and Golf and Advertising: Have You Learned Anything?
Tiger Woods has always seemed peculiarly uninteresting to me. I became aware of the phenomenon of his dullness early in his career. I was out for breakfast on a Sunday, reading the sports page, which mentioned that a kid named Tiger was doing well at the Masters, and the server commented "How about that Tiger Woods?" I was literally at a loss for words. He is very good at golf, but his excellence has always been clinical-easy not to watch. READ MORE
Japan Keeps The Crazy Breast-Related Inventions Coming
Here's yet another entry in the continuing saga of Japanese inventors' unwillingness to let boobies simply be boobies: It's a bra that doubles as a putting green. Knock it off, Japan!
Escape From Superstition Mountain
Oh, sure, our long economic slough has claimed plenty of casualties, from the (largely) chastened automobile industry to the shameless investment-banking sector. But there is one site of carnage that no correspondent has surveyed: the sheer scale of human loss is unfathomable and the implications of its long-term failure are simply unendurable to contemplate. We speak, of course, of the nation's beleaguered private golf clubs, which fearless embed Dean Foust, the Atlanta bureau chief for Business Week, reveals is embroiled in nothing less than an "existential crisis." READ MORE
British Golf Threatened By Nubility
"The golfing community has been split by the birth of a controversial new caddy service which provides attractive, nubile women to carry players' clubs," reports Britain's Daily Mail. It's a typical story-I think this weekend's Post had something about attractive, nubile women who clean people's apartments-but what I particularly enjoyed about this piece was the photcredits accompanying the shots of the attractive, nubile caddies: The photos, which appear to be ganked straight from the website of the service in question (and which even I would feel gratuitous and cheap for posting here), list the copyright holder as "Internet"? Is that a standard British thing, or is that something we can all get away with now? Because if so, this site is about to get a lot more colorful! Oh, right, also the situation described in the story is terribly, terrible sexist and not at all something we'd endorse.
A Futile Blow-By-Blow of the U.S. Open
Useless? Or wonderful? The executive editor of Golf Digest is live-Twittering the U.S. Open. It's sort of like poetry. Meaningless, meaningless poetry, from a time before there was no, say, television to deliver "moving images." Remember TV? It was so functional.
Golfers and Alzheimer's
This Wall Street Journal story about the use of golf outings as behavioral therapy for Alzheimer's sufferers is both touching and interesting. And this is coming from someone who has never found anything about golf interesting ever. Have a read.
