A nation famed for links golf courses In a wonderful book “A Course Called Ireland,” author Tom Coyne walks and golfs the entire perimeter of the nation. In one of those ironies of life, a friend gave it to me just over a year ago. Then, I was recovering from open-heart surgery, an unexpected quadruple…
I’ve actually been here before, sort of. In the early 1970s, as a young sportswriter working for the now-defunct Sacramento Union, I took a vacation to Europe with a backpack, and spent a couple of days hitch-hiking through Wales. I remember staying in a youth hostel, where my job was to sweep the floor before…
On his birthday last Tuesday, Pinky Murphy played his regularly scheduled nine holes at Laurelwood Golf Course in south Eugene.
Mostly, Doug DuChateau said, he was fairly stoic that Tuesday in April when his cardiologist told him that the results of the angiogram weren’t good, that he had major blockages in the arteries around his heart and that he needed open-heart surgery, ideally the next day.
WOODBURN — Poised and confident, 9-year-old Jayla Kucy three times chipped her pink golf ball from 15 yards close enough to a tough pin position on a sloping green to score respectably in that discipline, and then moved to the putting venue, where her first putt, from 6 feet, found nothing but the bottom of the cup.
In golf, putting is absolutely the simplest thing, right?
PORT ORFORD — The banner on the fallen flag stick is ragged, torn apart by the winds that sweep the coastline, but there’s still enough fabric to flutter as Troy Russell lifts the stick from the dune grass and plants it in the rugged ground.
It is a quirk of Grant Rogers, the director of instruction at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, that he won’t tell you how old he is, nor even provide a few clues …
BANDON — For the second straight year, Eri Crum played very well on the Bandon Dunes course at the Speedgolf World Championships at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
It’s a golf story, fundamentally, and who better to tell it than a writer who has covered 20 golf majors, and who can argue, as an eyewitness, that Ben Hogan hit the ball better than Tiger Woods.
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