Staying in the Short Grass

My partner, Betty Ligon (left) and me, checking in at the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, SC, for the Carolinas Cup, the month before COVID-19 put the lid on our golf competition. With the the LPG...

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Paula Creamer didn't miss the Evian Championship cut, but for her that back nine 5-hole disaster has probably ended her hope for an 8th Solheim Cup appearance. Paula Creamer brought memories of p...

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Embed from Getty Images It all looked good Sunday afternoon as Lexi Thompson and Suzann Pettersen made the turn at the ANA Inspiration. If I hadn't know it was the LPGA's first Major of the 2017 ...

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I honestly don't have any issues with Presidents who play golf. I think golf is a perfectly appropriate way to spend time. It enhances physical and mental health.  Simply put, the game of go...

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Today I graduated from the driving range to the golf course! Mary, one of my favorite golf buddies, called a couple of days ago and asked if I was ready to play some golf. The weather has been be...

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If I wanted to keep playing golf, I needed a new knee. This is my report on my first 10 weeks after my knee replacement surgery. It's been 10 long, painful weeks since I submitted to the inevitab...

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  If you want to lower your score you need to reduce your number of putts. This is how I did it. Whether you play golf for bragging rights or money - I confess right here that I play for bot...

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The wheels came off my round when I made the turn - where, or where, did my dependable tee shot go? I was really looking forward to my regular Thursday round this morning. I've been doing some wo...

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Despite dire predictions and a rough start, golf's return to the Olympic Games has been a glorious success! I'm a 74-year old jock of mediocre talent. Yet even with these fundamental limitations,...

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Embed from Getty Images Did Brittany Lang with the 71st US Women's Open or did Anna Nordqvist lose it when she grounded her club in that fairway bunker on the 2nd playoff hole? The same question ...

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Embed from Getty Images What would life look like if we lived it using the principles that inform our rounds of golf? I've often thought we could settle most human disputes with a round of golf r...

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Brittany Lang, Brittany Lincicome, Stacy Lewis, Brooke Pancake, Lizette Salas, & Jennifer Song ready for the Women's Health Classic Pro-Am at Stony Point. The Self Regional Healthcare Foundat...

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My golf game has been up and down recently.  The grass is growing again and because I'm hitting off almost fluffy green stuff rather than dry, dormant brown stuff I've finally stopped skulli...

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Jordan Spieth's Thank You Note This thank you note from 15-year old Jordan Spieth rolled across my Facebook page recently.  It says much about the character of its author and also suggest mu...

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Tiger Woods, Deactivated or Finished? Is this about Tiger, or is it about something bigger than any individual?  The latter, I think.  This is about why we do what we do, in work and in...

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Has anybody else just about reached the end of their emotional rope trying to play golf on dormant grass, no grass, even mud?  I've come close to slitting my wrists more than once over the l...

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I generally maintain an impermeable boundary between what I write here and the larger world of war and politics and global epidemics.  To be sure, I'm aware of and sensitive to the depths of...

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Alma Barnes, Me & Bonnie Bell (left to right) Despite the problematic weather I got in my traditional New Year's Eve and New Year's Day rounds again this year.  I typically play these tw...

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Wes has dropped in for a quick Christmas visit, tucking me in between a stop in Florida and his Virginia holiday blowout.  I had a short list of chores only a son can complete ready for him,...

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What's with this golf obsession?  The weather outside is frightful . . . and I'm planning on teeing off at my usual Saturday morning time.  What am I thinking?  There are three sho...

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Ben Martin's putting clinic at Shriners Hospital fort Children-Greenville, SC.  Photo credit: Scott Chancey, Greenwood Index-Journal. As November has segued into December and 2014 begins its...

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Sam Adams, Essentially Golf I met Sam Adams through the Google+ Golf Community (if you love golf and aren't a member of the Community you're missing an opportunity to connect with others who shar...

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Credit: Sandra @slem914

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ASU Karsten Golf Club, 8th fairway The fat lady did not sing for me in our final round of the 2014 Thanksgiving edition of the Bethel Wars.  David Bates had picked the ASU Karsten Golf Cours...

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On the way to the 1st tee at Dinosaur Mountain We went back to Gold Canyon Golf Resort and played the Dinosaur Mountain track for our second round.  Wes had forewarned me.  His knee was...

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