With the Ryder Cup approaching, and this week’s newsletter dipping into its history, it feels like a good time for a quick primer for anyone who’s never quite understood why grown men cry over a golf tournament nobody gets paid for. It started with a seed merchant and a casual remark. In 1926, a British … Read more
There’s a special kind of dread that sets in around mid-October, and it has nothing to do with your swing. It’s the moment you watch a perfectly good tee shot land in the rough, take one hop, and vanish into a sea of red and gold leaves like it opened a portal to another dimension. … Read more
There are collapses in sports. There are meltdowns. There are moments where the universe seems to reach down and personally intervene in someone’s life in the most cinematically cruel way possible. And then there is Jean Van de Velde on the 18th hole at Carnoustie in 1999. If you haven’t seen it look it up … Read more
Either you’ve done it or know someone who has. The golf cart wipeout. Whether its running over your childhood pal, flipping it on the 7th fairway, running it into a pond, or flying over a hill and burying it in a fairway bunker; the golf cart wipeout is a hilarious story to tell. Until it … Read more
Let’s talk about the most mentally exhausting three feet in golf. I’m referencing the three between “This is basically a gimme” and “What the F#%k?! Did a chipmunk deuce in front of that cup? That should have been in. My ball hit something…” We all been there. Most people new to golf putt with their … Read more
I have left my mark on many golf courses over the years. Not in the way the greats do. There are no plaques, no trophies, no commemorative flags. No assigned parking spaces. My legacy is more subtle. There is a golf ball with my initials markered onto it, embedded in the stucco of a townhome … Read more
Golfers are generally honest people. Upstanding citizens. Salt of the earth types who rake bunkers, replace divots, and call penalties on themselves even when nobody is watching. I said generally…lookin at you Steve 👀. They also lie constantly. About golf. To each other. To themselves. With complete and total conviction. Here are five things you … Read more
There are phone calls that change your life. Job offers. Bachelor party invites (still dealing with the consequences of that Vegas trip in ’98). The occasional call from your momma asking why you haven’t called lately. And then there’s the call John Daly got on a Tuesday night in August 1991. It went something like … Read more
Let’s have an honest conversation about putters. Specifically, let’s talk about the $400 putter your playing partner just bought that he is absolutely certain is going to fix his putting. It will not fix his putting. His putting is not an equipment problem. His putting is a him problem. But nobody wants to hear that, … Read more
A support guide for those who have lost something precious. Namely, their dignity. Grief is a natural human response to loss. Psychologists tell us there are five distinct stages that people move through when processing devastating experiences. A Swiss-American psychiatrist named Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed this framework to help people cope with tragedy. (Check out the … Read more