It looked like another US victory was in the cards as the US team swept the four ball competition in the morning session on the second day of the competition at La Hinch Golf Club in County Clare, Ireland. The US only needed 3 1/2 points to maintain the Cup out of...
I’ve been playing golf for over 50 years and as a late model septuageniaran, it’s hard to come to grips with the diminution of your ability to hit golf shots at the distances you used to hit them. It has forced me to abandon the idea of “greens in...
Elusive Links by Dan Rosenberg is an epic tale of fictional history dealing with a wide variety of plots and themes including European history, genealogy, romance and the teachings of Maimonides across multiple story lines separated by five centuries. When you open...
The Pit—13th Hole at North Berwick You’ve been on North Berwick for the past two and a half hours and it’s been an exhilarating experience. The wind has picked up and is now directly in your face as you approach, “The Pit”, the par four of 390 yards now playing much...
The last installment from the Ireland trip is La Hinch. We’re skipping a review of the Dook course. Dook was fun to play but the greenskeeper had to be on vacation as the greens were slower than molasses. It seemed the greens were 7-8 on the stimpmeter and I...
Next up we headed to the Ballybunion Golf Links. I hadn’t been here since the spring of 1990 and remember nothing about the course other than the cemetery off the first tee. My son was 11 years old. It was pouring rain and the wind was howling and what made...
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