by Curt Sampson | May 22, 2020
You may have played The Ocean Course from the tips, or the Old Course in a gale. You may have arrived for the final round of a member-guest with a hangover so overwhelming that you used handicap parking–and deserved it. But there is another, tougher form of...
by Curt Sampson | Apr 22, 2020
As have you, I assume, I’ve considered and rejected various self-improvement projects during this long, lonely time-out: lift more? look up old friends? learn to hit the high note on the pan flute? No, no, and no. Instead, I’ve re-discovered the soothing, almost...
by Curt Sampson | Apr 15, 2020
On a hot July day in 1970, my date and I paused for a while in the sun dappled shade by the eighteenth tee to watch a few groups launch their final tee balls in the first round of the American Golf Classic at Firestone CC. Miss Thomas and I were eighteen. One...
by Curt Sampson | Apr 2, 2020
Commentators on the brutal economic fallout of the pandemic rarely fail to mention the plight of food service workers, especially waiters and waitresses. But during this hour of crisis, could we also spare a thought for those of us at the bottom of golf’s food...
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