A postcard from Carnoustie
On the sixth day, we fear the worst … and conquer our fears. We played Carnoustie Golf Links in late afternoon, a 3:40 p.m. tee time on Sunday, April 28….
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A postcard from North Berwick
Our seventh and final day, my favorite course in Scotland, maybe anywhere. I loved this old course south of Edinburgh when I played here in 2016; loved the views of…
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Trip Kuehne: A long rainbow ends at Bandon Dunes
Trip Kuehne’s quest for an individual USGA title finishes in the 2007 Mid-Amateur In 1994, a young golf sensation, 18-year-old Tiger Woods, rallied from a five-stroke deficit with 12 holes…
A special birthday gift for Pops
In advance of my 70th birthday, the gift of an April trip to the birthplace of golf I love golf, and have written about golf, and had opportunities to play…
A bonus round at Brora?
Are the flights on time? Do we get lost in a roundabout? Is there enough daylight left? Our flight from Washington D.C. through Detroit and Amsterdam is scheduled to arrive…
Anticipating Royal Dornoch
An original links course, regarded among the very best in the world Herbert Warren Wind called it “the most natural golf course in the world.” Tom Watson described it as…
Previewing Machrihanish Dunes
Opened in 2009, it’s the only course we’ll play built after the 19th century Three years ago, a writing trip brought me to Machrihanish, at the bottom of the Mull…
Previewing Machrihanish Golf Club
Fell in love with this course three years ago, thrilled to return When Old Tom Morris laid out Machrihanish Golf Club in 1879 he traveled by train, steamboat and carriage…
Previewing Cruden Bay Golf Club
What Old Tom Morris and Bram Stoker have in common …. I knew Cruden Bay Golf Club only by reputation, not that kind that comes out of a world ranking,…
Carnoustie looms
It was once dubbed “Car-nasty.” Should I be worried? (I am). As Jason and I developed our plan for Scotland, evolving into six courses in six days, this was the…
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