International Shorts Rule Now in Effect
The Sunday Morning Group gives an extra handicap stroke to anyone who wears shorts after November 1 (and two strokes after December 1). It was so cold and windy on Sunday that Gary, our terrific...
View ArticleUnbroken (by the Stupid Weather)
My home course has been closed since shortly before Thanksgiving, so we’ve been playing around. I was traveling (without golf clubs) two Sundays ago, but everyone else played at Tunxis Plantation,...
View ArticleBeating the Snow, Plus Exclusive Footage of a Rare 86-stroke Penalty
The forecast for Sunday was terrible, but the one for Saturday was pretty good—“snow and ice, then rain; fog”—so we shifted our Sunday game to Saturday. There were several guys standing around outside...
View ArticleIs This Idea So Crazy That It Just Might Work?
Not long ago, I received a promotional email from a golf course my friends and I have often played during the winter, called Lyman Orchards. That got my hopes up—but the email wasn’t an announcement...
View ArticleDid Donald Trump Copy His Hairstyle From Nature?
We played Spyglass and Pebble last Sunday, at Maggie McFly’s. Here’s Mike B., holding the stick for me on the second green at Pebble: The weather had been so bad that playing anywhere but on the...
View ArticleThese Are Still the Best Winter Golf Gloves — Plus Other Apparel News
My friends and I haven’t been able to play golf in about a month now, so I’ve been wearing my winter golf gloves mainly to walk the dog. The ones I like best are still Winter Xtreme, by HJ Glove....
View ArticleAre These the Best Socks for Golf?
First, a weather update. Here’s what the my patio looked like on March 2: And here’s what it looked like two weeks later: Note that the enormous tabletop “snow loaf” in the first photo has virtually...
View ArticleHave a Cigar! Hey, Have Two!
There are two approaches to turning yourself into a human billboard: the single-logo, less-is-more approach, typified by Tiger Woods (Nike) and Jordan Spieth (Under Armour), and the...
View ArticleRevolutionary New Playoff Format—Now With Bacon
Two teams tied during the Sunday Morning Group’s inaugural outing of 2015, a couple of weeks ago, and the Committee devised a new playoff format for them. You can read more at this blog’s official...
View ArticleFree Golf Balls! (For My Friends and Me)
At a rich-guy club several years ago, I stopped by the golf shop to buy Pro V1s, and when the assistant behind the counter told me how much they were I said, “Oh, no, just a sleeve,” but—ha-ha!—the...
View ArticleInternational Drain-the-Beer-Keg Day
Every fall, around the time the golf shop closes for the season, the Sunday Morning Group prepares for winter by spending a day finishing all the beer that’s left in the kegerator, so that the...
View ArticleWoman Uncovers Corporate Golf’s Darkest Secret
Nobody else could play on Saturday, so I decided to do chores and pay bills. But then I noticed that the temperature was almost 60, so I took the dog for a quick walk and went to Candlewood Valley as …...
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