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I'm thankful for . . .

Thursday, November 24, 2011 Comments
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Thanksgiving. It’s the Cypress Point of holidays. Nothing compares. It’s certainly my favorite. Like Cypress Point, Thanksgiving starts out with a handshake or a hug, some playable holes, feels like the gathering of family, and then builds to the presentation of the Big Bird, or the 16th tee. By the 18th green, you want to unbutton your pants, find a spot on the sofa, and drift into tryptophanic dreams of John Madden awarding you a turducken drumstick for being the game’s MVP. 
 
So, what am I thankful for?

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The Return of Joe Ba!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Comments
The reclaimed-remodeled-refashioned Joseph M. Bartholomew Sr. Municipal Golf Course in New Orleans will finally reopen for play on the day after Thanksgiving. It had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and left for dead until an intense campaign by course superintendent Pete Carew convinced the city to rebuild a course on the site.

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Designed by Garrett Gill and former PGA Tour player Kelly Gibson (who grew up in New Orleans and took a special interest in the project), built by Dunnick Construction and grown-in by Carew in 2009-2010, the 18-hole course (formerly Pontchartrain Park Golf Course) is named for its original designer, the most prominent African-American figure in golf architecture in the 20th Century.

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Whitten: Adopt A Golf Course!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Comments
Colleague Ron Whitten and I used to disagree on golf photos. Back when I was the director of photography, I often picked a picture that was shot from behind the green. My philosophy: best picture wins. Whitten would write spirited emails in favor of a picture shot from the tee or the fairway. "I like to show the architecture of a hole for a story about architecture," was one of his main points. It was his story, and I don't have a degree in law, so I usually lost the arguments. 

I haven't been the subject of a spirited Whitten email in a few years. As you'll read in Whitten's post below, Jack Abramoff is now wearing the bullseye, and Whitten is shooting from the tee, the fairway and the hip:

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Be forewarned, I feel a rant coming on. It’s been triggered by the appearance last Sunday night on Sixty Minutes of Jack Abramoff, shamelessly trying to rehabilitate his image. Won’t work. He’ll always be a ruthless lobbyist who ignored laws, bought off Congressmen and scammed his own clients all at the same time.  

Don’t take my word for it. Watch Alex Gibney’s excellent film, “Casino Jack and the United States of Money,” now on DVD. (This is a documentary. I’ve not seen the similarly-named motion picture starring Kevin Spacey.)

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Recap: Buddies Golf Getaway and Top 75 Resorts

Thursday, November 3, 2011 Comments
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Those pesky Petticrew brothers torched a sun-soaked group of competitors at Golf Digest’s Buddies Golf Getaway in Orlando. After a 54 in the opening round of a two-man Shamble, Buck and Paul Petticrew of Virgina Beach, Va., and Indianapolis, Ind., displayed large sleeves of balls by showing up the next morning as they faced a hostile crowd, a buffet breakfast and a TaylorMade clubfitting. 

Buddies_9.jpgEvening activities included lots of drinks, memorable crab cakes, playoff baseball and two roundtable discussions on golf and travel hosted by yours truly, colleague Pete Finch, Mark Rolfing of NBC, Russ Evans of ESPN Radio in Florida and Steve Sayre of Golf Trip Genius. 

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