How to unwind from a week of British Open craziness? My solution.

One last trip to the Auld Grey Toon Starbucks…

This is what it all came down to: On Friday afternoon, I was chatting with Christian Iooss, Golf Digest and Golf World’s director of photography, over lunch about how the magazine would “play” our coverage of the Open this year. We went over various scenarios, who was writing what and how much space would be [...]

Back in the day, when I was all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I used to think that the reason we all took turns covering Tiger Woods was that it was only fair. There are usually three or four people shooting a major championship for Golf World and the standard, if unwritten, rule is this: Everybody gets [...]

Poor Tom Watson. I really don’t think this is the way he wanted to go out. In what’s becoming de rigeur for any retiring legend playing their last Open round at St. Andrews (see Palmer, Arnold, 1995 and Nicklaus, Jack, 2005), it was arranged that his final walk down the 18th would include a posed [...]

I don’t know why, but I always let my conscience sucker me into this.
Every. Single. Time.
It seems oh-so-important on the Thursday of any major, but especially this one: the Open Championship at the Home of Golf, the historic implications of what might happen in four days’ time banging around in my head about as [...]

It’s been a long day. At least I think it’s been a day. Maybe more than that. To recap:
6 a.m. Tuesday: Jake and I board a flight to DFW, onward to La Guardia. ETA: 12:30.
12:30 p.m. Tuesday: Jake and I are on board our flight from DFW to La Guardia. But we’re not there yet.
1:30 [...]

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