The Caddie Wore a Rolex
Several years ago, my friend (and self-made millionaire) Nate offered to pay me $6,000 a month to follow a story he believed would make a gripping book and movie. My job was to track the story’s...
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Spinning Records: Being Best, Being First, or Just Being?
#18 and Clubhouse at Monte Rei, Site of My Record-Setting Round It’s not every day that a fourteen handicap sets a course record, but on a trip to Portugal’s warm, sunny Algarve region, I shot the...
View ArticleThe Cranky Traveler: 10 Ways You Can Make My Flight More Enjoyable
1. Show some courtesy. And cogency. If you think of my seat back like a trebuchet, and my head like the projectile you’d be shooting with said trebuchet, every time you pull on my seat back with all...
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Just Deserts: Where to Play in a Dry Heat
A Great Escape at Marriott's Desert Springs Golf Course, Palm Desert, CA. The desert is hot and full of sharp things like cacti, yuccas, pyramids, scorpions, and Las Vegas. But it’s also home to some...
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On the Supernatural Connection Between Scotch and Golf
Not Pictured: My Lagavulin 16 and Balvenie 21 Port Wood, Hidden in an Undisclosed Location. Surely it’s more than mere happenstance that the game of golf and the drinkable artwork that is Scotch whisky...
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Clic-ing on All Cylinders: The Clicgear Model 3.0
You’ve just got to love an engineer who redesigns a part of his product so that you won’t spill your beer. At this year’s PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, I met Kevin Kimberley, who invented– and has...
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Marking Your Ball– Literally
Just in case you need another example of golfers’ general lack of imagination (and if you are wearing khakis right now this especially applies to you), consider the marks most players put on their...
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Get a Grip
In a world full of dumb and complicated swing aids and other golf products, I was happy to encounter the new Grip Lock Golf Glove at the PGA Show in Las Vegas last week. Simply put, a standard golf...
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Jason Zuback and Jack Nicklaus Can’t be Wrong . . .
I am more likely to grow antlers than be caught on the driving range with a hula hoop or a giant rubber medicine ball or any of the other million dumb– and even dumber-LOOKING– swing aids invented to...
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True Links: A Bar Fight and Artful Golf Porn in One Gorgeous Package
Who loves a good argument more than golfers? You’re sitting in a dark pub, post-round, and some guy says Ben Hogan had the best golf swing ever, and there’ll be five other guys knocking over their...
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Speyside Golf Whisky Trail Marks Convergence of World’s Greatest Inventions
In October, my friend David Whyte– the renowned Scottish golf journalist– picked me up in Glasgow for a quick tour of the Speyside Golf Whisky Trail in central Scotland. Over five days we visited some...
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What I would change about golf . . .
It’s Thursday night and you’re watching the Lakers-Celtics game on TV in your favorite sports bar. Kobe gets knocked to the hardwood going down the lane, leaving a puddle of sweat on the floor. And...
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TaylorMade Golf’s New Poster Child? You’re Looking at Him.
Do not try this at home. Author at Cruden Bay, Scotland. I am the TaylorMade Golf Poster Child. Not Dustin Johnson. Not Martin Kaymer. Not Justin Rose or Sean O’Hair or Sergio Garcia or any of the...
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Nike VR Pro Driver– ahh, distance! ooh, accuracy!
Earlier this year Nike introduced the VR Pro Driver to follow their irons of the same name. The pear-shaped driver allows for more weight at the optimal center of gravity and delivers a hotter launch...
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Boulders Pro Donald Crawley Advocates ‘White on Green’
You know this scenario: as soon as you’ve sliced your drive into no-man’s-land you shake your head, roll your eyes, and mutter: “should’ve hit three-wood.” And your playing partners give that annoying...
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The Best Steak House in Scottsdale . . .
. . . isn’t really even a steakhouse, exactly. And while it compares favorably to such personal favorites as El Gaucho in Portland, N9ne in Vegas, and even the storied Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn, New...
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The Boulders Still Awesome After 12 Million Years
A lot of resorts– particularly those built back in the boom of the 1980s– have grown tired enough to be forced into retirement, especially with all the great new boutique properties popping up full...
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Troon North Pro Doug Hammer Helps Golfers Tame the Desert
Players venturing south to the desert for a warm, dry fall or winter golf trip will face a unique challenge: how to hit shots that hang in the air longer than Superman showing off for Lois, and that...
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Talking Stick Pro Tim Mahoney Solves the Downhill Bunker Shot Puzzle
Not that you would ever watch golf on television, but if you did you’d likely see Tour players executing the occasional shot that might cause you to reflect: ‘I’d be as likely to grow antlers as make a...
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How I Would Spend $10,000 on Golf . . .
One word: Scottsdale. Which the Robb Report once called the best place to live in the US for golf. I’ll fly business class and begin my trip with a warm-up round on the Kierland Golf Club just because...
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Warm Greeting at Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale
The Golf Road Warriors have begun gathering in the desert from various points on the compass. Day starts early tomorrow with massages at the Four Seasons spa to get golf ready, as someone once put it....
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Warrior Pose: Yoga for Golf Road Warriors
At the Four Seasons Scottsdale Resort, former LPGA TOUR professional Dodie Mazzuca will stretch your golf boundaries– literally– in a class that combines traditional yoga poses, sports stretches, and...
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Grow the Game Golf: The Golf App You Actually Want
Front nine leaderboard at Troon North Monument Course. Check out El Jefe (but ignore 9th hole)! I am not a golfer who thinks that rangefinders are a good idea, or who enters my greens-in- regulations...
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From The Boulders to Barbecue in Seven Miles
Photo by John and Jeannine Henebry Is this a great country, or what? In the span of one long day today the Golf Road Warriors enjoyed the municipal magnificence of the McDowell Mountain Ranch Golf...
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Peter Kessler Earns New Nickname
Peter Kessler is the only golfer I know who can talk in the middle of his own backswing, though much of what he says to himself cannot be repeated here for fear of scaring small children. It’s often...
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Golf Road Warrior Discovers New Way of Lighting Certifresh Cigar
Please don’t tell our wives, but the Golf Road Warriors have been known to smoke a few cigars– daily, that is– in our adventures in the world’s best golf destinations. But there have been many...
View ArticleGolf Road Warriors Go Off Road
The Golf Road Warriors head off the fairway with Desert Wolf Tours, north of Scottsdale.
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Here’s what happens when the we let videographer Jamie McWilliams come out from behind the lens . . .
View ArticleGolf Road Warriors Stretch Their Limits
Former LPGA TOUR pro and current golf and yoga instructor Dodie Mazzuca joins us on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Course to offer a few yoga poses that will help your game. Mazzucca teaches at the Four...
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What Golf Road Warriors Want Under the Tree
We suspected the elves were playing the new Callaway Tour I(z) when we saw how long the little guys were off the tee. The balls are pictured here with a few foursomes of our favorite smokes from...
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Last Warrior Standing
This in the parking lot of We Ko Pa Golf Club, one of the best courses we played on the recent Golf Road Warriors (GRW) trip to Scottsdale. I’m posing with my 28-inch T-Pro Bold Expandable...
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Pairings: The Best Cigars for the Right Golf Course
If you think wine goes well with food, how about the perfect combo of the right cigar with the right golf course? On the recent Golf Road Warriors Scottsdale we were lucky enough to partner with...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Grow The Game Golf
Here’s a short, entertaining video shot at the TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course, and featuring Peter Kessler; Tiffany Nelson, Sr. Business Development Director at TPC Scottsdale; and yours truly. CEO Bob...
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SunRidge Canyon and Jim McLean Golf School
A couple of years ago I was forced to endure an unwanted golf lesson as part of a story I was writing for a magazine. I was playing some very good golf at that time so I told the instructor: please...
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