Mention that the president of the United States is on the golf course, and you’ll get a standard reply: from the president’s supporters, “Great, he needs time away from the pressures of the job”; from the president’s detractors, “There he goes again wasting time on a frivolous golf game when he should be paying attention to his job.” This article […]
Author Archive: Jim Davis
ice golf the cure for s.a.d.
The scientists tell us that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing, affecting countless numbers of cabin-bound individuals during the long winter days. (Symptoms are too depressing to enumerate or describe.) The combination of near-perpetual gray skies, relentless cold and snow begin to take its toll on the human psyche, not that we haven’t had some practice because of […]
easygoing teddy rhodes had a ‘passion for the game’
celebrating black golfers – theodore “teddy” rhodes By Jim DavisHe had a prodigious talent for golf, sometimes compared with Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. But only a few lucky souls got to see Theodore Rhodes play golf. He was was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1913, a year after Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and Sam Snead. But those men had […]
ATT PEBBLE BEACH PRO-AM BEGAN AS THE CROSBY CLAMBAKE
This weekend, PGA Tour pros will tee it up with entertainment celebrities and corporate CEOs in a unique pro-am format that has been enjoyed by golf fans since 1937. Oops — not this year! Only the pros. Absent will be the amateurs and the fans, casualties of pandemic safety protocols. But the unique history of this event is still worth celebrating. […]
golf postcards for valentine’s day
By John Fischer III Golf postcard subjects cover anything related to the game — courses, clubhouses, famous personalities of the game, humor, advertising and holidays. I have attached three Valentine’s Day postcards from my collection which I thought you would find enjoyable and if, JUST IF, your forgot to get a card for your significant other, print out one of […]