Iceland Golf: Have You Driven A Fjord Lately?
In January’s The A List TAP colleague Tom Harack pondered playing in this year’s Arctic Open, scheduled for June 24-26. The following piece suggests he wouldn’t be sorry, though he might become worn...
View ArticleMission Hills: Mission Incredible
It is fitting that a statue of the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy and Compassion overlooks the eighteenth hole of the Olazabal Course at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China. Fitting, in that...
View ArticleAuld Lang Syne
Return to Turnberry 1: May 10, 2008 God's view of Turnberry [I first posted the next five entries on Turnberry on my old blog site, Three Guys Golf, exactly two years ago. As the three guys retired...
View ArticleThe Gorse is the Gorse, of Course, of Course
<<Return to Turnberry 1 Return to Turnberry 2: May 11, 2008 Coat of Arms of the Marquess of Ailsa On his Turnberry estate, the Marquess of Ailsa, a former Captain at Prestwick Golf Club (home of...
View ArticleThe Open Road
<<Return to Turnberry 2 Return to Turnberry 3: May 12, 2008 Two teammates, Hal Quinn and Steve Eubanks arrived last night, and we played a practice round this morning on the Kintyre course, and...
View ArticleThe Games Begin
<<Return to Turnberry 3 Return to Turnberry 4: May 13, 2008 The first round of the Ailsa Cup matches, over the eponymous course, ended in a two-two split–no blood. Team captain Tom Mackin (left)...
View ArticleThe Ailsa Cup O’ Kyndnes
<<Return to Turnberry 4 Return to Turnberry 5: May 14, 2008 Even without the “Golf With a Hangover” program, most of us wobbled over to the Colin Montgomerie Links Golf Academy in the morning for...
View ArticleGoing Sideways on the Left Coast
There’s something entirely too benign about California weather that northeastern folk like me are well to be wary of. The very air is suspiciously different. San Martin is in the central coast area of...
View ArticleTAP Beer of the Week 39: 1503 Tudor Ale
The Ryder Cup starts Friday at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, and I’ll have to go pretty much on the memory of playing the Twenty Ten Celtic Manor Course last month, since I’ll be attending...
View ArticlePostcards from Doonbeg, County Clare
Play Away: The first hole at Doonbeg Golf Club [See comment section below on 2012 Ten Year Celebration Package] Sunday, June 1, 2008: Back to Doughmore Bay The fervor of international competition has...
View ArticleOne Sexy Italian
Masseria San Domenico I’m not talking about my wife–although she can certainly make a claim to the title, especially on Valentine’s Day–but about a resort we visited a few years back, the Masseria San...
View ArticleWomen Rev It Up in Thailand
Ai Miyazato Golf was first played in Thailand in 1906, at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club. When the Banyan Golf Club in Hua Hin opened in 2009, it became the 260th course in a country roughly the size of...
View ArticlePlaying Around With Three Clubs
In response to a Twitter message about a three club challenge, I dug this one out of the fairly recent archives. I once played in a hickory club tournament, carting about seven clubs around in the bag....
View ArticleHellbound for Hawaii
The Descent Into Paradise: So what if it’s a three-flight journey, this is my first trip to Hawaii, and to the lovely island of Kauai for a fistful of golf rounds. Say what, the initial flight is late?...
View ArticleChild-Friendly Fairways
The family that plays together stays together, although maybe not all the time if Mom and Dad figure it out properly. There are three necessities for a family friendly golf resort–pressure-free golf,...
View ArticleThe Wonder in the Woods
Though it’s in rural Connecticut, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, the truth must told–when approaching Foxwoods Resort by car it arises suddenly out of the countryside like the Emerald City in...
View ArticleTom Bedell Hits an R7 Off the Deck at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club
All right, I’ve used some indelicate language here, but I didn’t know the exciting conclusion to this international round was going to go international on YouTube. For that I have to thank Joe...
View ArticleFresh Encounters of the Golfing Kind
Golf course architects may bemoan the sunny 1990’s, when new layouts debuted virtually daily, peaking at 398 in 2000. Such days are unlikely to return: there were fewer than 50 new course openings in...
View ArticleIke and the French Lick Maneuver
Back before the 2008 Presidential election I took what was supposed to be a quick in and out trip to see and play the new Pete Dye-designed golf course at the French Lick Resort and Casino in Indiana....
View ArticleOf Vegemite, Vineyards, and the Tommy Tolles Incident
Kangaroo Island Congratulations to the U.S. team for its Presidents Cups win in Melbourne earlier today. Watching some of the play on the Royal Melbourne course put me in mind of the time I was...
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