An Improbable Hole in One

I have been golfing on a semi-regular basis for at least twelve years.  Even by conservative estimates, I have golfed about 200 rounds in my lifetime, which means that I’ve had about 800 realistic chances at getting an ace (assuming that there’s four par 3s on an 18-hole course).  That’s a lot of swings on [...]

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Visual Rhetoric and the Challenge of Critique

I wanted to pause from my busy day and meditate on some recent race-related furor in the golf world. In case you missed it, a few weeks ago during its coverage of the ever-exciting Mercedes Benz Championship, The Golf Channel commentators Nick Faldo and Kelly Tilghman were killing time, casually lamenting the dominance Tiger Woods [...]

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The Art of the “Message Shot”

Anyone who has ever played golf on a crowded course has thought about (if not experimented with) the “message shot.” Golf is a game rife with techniques to develop, yet even given all of golf’s nomenclature, jargon, and set of skill shots–the flop, the fade, the draw, the bump and run, etc.–the message shot doesn’t [...]

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