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TV charity matches may not rouse touring pros to perform with the intensity and drama they bring to a professional golf tournament, but made-for-TV events provide a better view of the courses they are being played on than the typical TV broadcast does.

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 golf.

I recently reviewed Michael Bamberger's new book, The Second Life of Tiger Woods, in tandem with an appreciation of Curt Sampson's Roaring Back for the Pacific Northwest Golf Association's website and magazine.

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.

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.

The late Hall of Fame NBA coach Jack Ramsay taught that basketball teams reflect the personalities of their coaches. Jack’s teams were well-prepared, determined and relentless. Companies, too, mirror their leaders’ values and outlooks, and at Columbia Sportswear, compassion and generosity rule.

Over the next few weeks, we're going to share reviews we've written on some of our favorite golf books, and supplement those posts with newly written comments on various club histories.

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 chain? Talking about caddies.