Author: John Strege
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Taming the Tiger: A Kinder, Gentler Woods Seems Likely
Mark Twain, the preeminent scratch wordsmith, once made a comparison of the hypothetical speech of dogs and cats and noted that “the cat would have the rare ... -
Farewell, My Lovely: Will the 2023 U.S. Open Be SoCal’s Curtain Call?
Hooray for Hollywood, as the song goes, and the U.S. Open in its infrequent visits to Southern California precincts accordingly delivered. Its leading men were Ben ... -
See It to Be It: Women’s Golf Participation Is Surging
Welcome news has recently emerged from a mercifully diminishing caucus in golf, one that in this royal and ancient game has too often favored the ancient notion ... -
The Greatest Show on Earth: Reliving Tiger’s Miraculous 2008 U.S. Open Win
The 2008 U.S. Open was the embodiment of why sports as an entertainment vehicle often delivers as reliably as Amazon and more so than Hollywood studios. ... -
Mulligan’s Wheel: Surfer, Teacher, CEO Jaime Mulligan Gets His Due
Jamie Mulligan is not a guru, at least not in the way it’s traditionally understood by those for whom swing-plane minutiae, launch angles and ball speed are ... -
Ely’s Gift to Golf
Dr. Irving P. Krick was long ago consigned to history’s footnotes, and is now largely forgotten. A renowned meteorologist, Krick was enlisted to provide General Dwight D. ...
