The final rounds, the final memories of this wonderful trip. INVERNESS, Scotland – Alas, this is my last postcard from Scotland. We have not run out of courses to play but out of time to play them on this trip. As my youngest son David said long ago, as a first-grader, when his Babe Ruth…
So what is a golfer like me doing here? Well, it’s worth pondering. DORNOCH, Scotland — It is not breaking any news to write that I am not very good at golf. My scores generally range from mediocre to worse than that. I don’t drive it very far, or hit irons with any consistent accuracy,…
On the fourth day, we play a course with the best-of-everything of links golf ABERDEEN, Scotland — On Thursday morning, we left St. Andrews early for the two-hour drive to Murcar Links Golf Club, founded in 1909 just north of Aberdeen on the North Sea. The course was designed by Archie Thompson, and improved by the…
So we don’t get chosen in the lottery to play the Old Course. After two great days, we’re fine with that. In planning our trip, Jason and I agreed to leave two open days, Tuesday and Wednesday, to enter the lottery to play the Old Course at St. Andrews. We had walked the course on…
On the first day, remembering an old friend
Another chance to clear the stone wall on No. 13
Phil Friedmann’s ‘sanctuary,’ the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch, transformed by Bill Coore For roughly 15 years, Phil Friedmann was content to have the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch exist as a personal sanctuary for himself and a few friends to golf in solitude over 13 rough holes on a mile of spectacular Pacific Ocean coastline north…
A “born again golfer” has become a frequent, and exemplary, champion The face of senior amateur golf in Oregon is a slender, soft-spoken 65-year-old retiree from Happy Valley whose life in the sport has more chapters than a Russian novel. Now, the story finds Pat O’Donnell a player to be reckoned with, a consistent contender…
The OGA Four-Ball unites him with old friend Craig Ronne at Emerald Valley Over the years, golf pro Laine Wortman has driven up and down the West Coast to watch his son, Bryce, play golf, from juniors events to high school state championships and now collegiate tournaments for San Jose State University. He’s been a…
Goal-oriented Westview HS senior-to-be has committed to BYU Alexa Udom turns 17 on Friday, June 28, which happens to be the date of the championship match of the Oregon Golf Association’s 89th annual Bob Norquist Junior Amateur at Oswego Lake Country Club, and as birthday presents go, something in a girls trophy would do quite…
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