You can check out, but you can never leave
Have you ever been out with good friends for a wonderful evening and looked at and realized, to your amazement, that it was already 2 a.m. – three hour
Love in the Time of Corona
Fans of world literature will
immediately notice that I have stolen my title from the 1985 classic “Love in
the Time of Cholera” by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia
Golf in a crisis
We have all had our share of misery in the months of March
and April as we return to the golf course. We’ve had late snow and rainy, soggy
days. When we look back on those weath
Learning from the Scots and Irish
I
was in Scotland recently playing courses in and around St. Andrews with three
of my closest friends. We had glorious weather (the rumors of wind and rain in
Sco
New year, new GAP
In the 1990s, I spent considerable time in Australia. One of the great things about traveling to Australia was flying Qantas Airways (obviously a distant second to Aussie beer an
Golf, alternative forms are alive and well
The quotation “golf is a good walk spoiled” is often attributed to Mark Twain. Researchers are virtually certain that Twain never defamed our game wi
Ruining our reputation
One of the hallmarks of our wonderful game of golf is etiquette. The ethos of respecting your fellow players, policing yourself and doing what you can to ensure that everyon
Champions amongst us
After a brief encounter with golf in my early years, I went nearly 20 years without picking up a golf club until I was 34. At that time (1983), I was the Deputy Director of th
Golf is a family affair
I was in Ireland this February visiting The Island Golf Club, my home club. The temperature was 48 degrees with a light rain, so given the perfect Irish weather the parking
No brag, just fact
In the immortal words of John Wayne, “No brag, just fact.” That must be an important idea because, after all, it was said by the Duke. In Eastern Pennsylvania, we really adh