Bethpage Binge Day Three: El Negron!!

Techno-linguistically speaking, El Negron translates as the  intimidating black one, so it is a fitting moniker for “that course.” If Monday proved to be a warm-up and Wednesday was a cool-down, Tuesday was the show, the main event, the reason for being...

To The Linksland

              On the tail end of our Bethpage Binge, The Scrambler (Kevin Lynch) and I had the opportunity to play two links-style courses in eastern New York. When I say links style, I don’t mean a cutesy place with the word...

Darren Clarke Makes Us Smile

This is an article I posted on BuffaloGolfer.com in April 2006 when Darren Clarke was terribly close to losing his wife Heather. Since Clarke so gracefully handled his wife’s passing and his emotional return to the golf course, he has been one of my favorite...

Hickory Golfers Keep Tradition Alive Far & Near

There lives among us a breed of golfer whose character exceeds our own, modern one. These chaps are hickory golfers, fellows who eschew the alleged benefits of graphite, titanium and other elemental variations for the whip of a wooden golf shaft and the click of a...

Sand In My Shoes At Bethpage Black

You have to be careful about what you say at Chili’s restaurants on Long Island. Last Monday, flanked by Mo Golf and Scrambler after a day of golf on Bethpage Red and Bethpage Yellow, I told them I needed a lot of practice on my sand game. To paraphrase, I said...

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