Archives for: July 2007
Jul
29
Here's another great restaurant in the Smoky Mountains area: the Sagebrush Steakhouse.
It's in Morristown, where Davy Crockett grew up.
It's one of those huge, wood buildings with big tables and acres of room for when after you eat and you got de big… more »
Jul
29
Deadbeat Pete's is a great place for vittles in the Smoky Mountains. It's in Townsend, a very pleasant, non-tourist town, sort of, two minutes away from the Great Smoky Mountain National park.
Deadbeat Pete's is a ramshackle joint, with an outdoor, sc… more »
Jul
16
I was surprised to find out Grand Cayman even has golf. This was a few years ago, of course, before I became the leading expert in the Western world on Caribbean golf.The small island, only about six miles wide and 22 miles long, has three courses more »
Jul
14
You'd think I would know better by now, but every time I leave the country, I'm struck by the differences between American and foreign air carriers.
I took a flight on American Airlines to Miami recently. The plane was dark, dingy, cramped and dirty.… more »
Jul
10
I'm tired of all this talk about Tom Watson being the "consummate professional" and all that baloney.
I wanted to see him throw a club during his truly horrendous collapse at the U.S. Senior Open at Whistling Straits. This was a meltdown of stupendous… more »
Jul
10
I don't know about you, but I'm hoping the AT&T National becomes a major before The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra. I doubt either one of them ever will – we don't even know if the AT&T will stay at the Congressional – but if one does, I… more »
Jul
10
Hot, young golfer Ashleigh Simon, South African version of Michelle Wie: "No dudes for me"
16 feedbacks »I've been reading about Ashleigh Simon and once interviewed her in South Africa for a story. We sat on a verandah in the hot African sun drinking iced tea, after a round at Glendower Golf Club, one of South Africa’s top courses.
She's sort of that c… more »
Jul
06
Michelle Wie has turned down a sponsors exemption to play in the upcoming HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship, and says it is not because of her wrist injury.
Wie would have needed an exemption to play in the prestigious event because she does… more »
Jul
06
When I went to Vietnam on a golf trip a few months back, I met several veterans of the "American War," as the Vietnamese refer to it.
Some were Americans, who appeared largely to have forgiven the Vietnamese people and were eager themselves to make am… more »
Jul
02
I'm no swing doctor - if you ever saw me take a hack, that would surely be obvious - but it sure looks like legendary golf teacher David Leadbetter has Michelle Wie's swing all screwed up.
It may be due to other factors - her injured wrist, her deflat… more »
Jul
02
Jim Furyk is one of the top golfers in the world, and yet he is frequently dissed by so many golf writer, spectators and others.
I don't understand it. Is it his weird swing? The fact he can't excite the crowds by routinely blasting 300-yard drives?… more »
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