Parting Words

Ending a trip like the Golf Road Warriors makes me both sad and happy. Sad to be going (with so many courses left to play!) but happy to be heading home. There was a near international incident at the hotel at 630 this morning, Scotland time, when the front desk couldn’t find Anita Draycott’s clubs, which she had left at the pro shop the night before with clear directions to have them ready to go early the next day. Eventually they were located, and it didn’t cost us much time or trouble, but it reinforced one of my cardinal rules of golf-travel: Always keep your clubs close at hand. I’d rather drag them down to the lobby myself than worry where they might be at any moment. ... Full Story
A Fitting Ending

None of us Golf Road Warriors expects any sympathy for the schedule we’ve kept the last few days. Lots of golf and great meals, staying in luxury, and crisscrossing western Scotland in search of more. Poor poor us, indeed. Not to complain, but it was a busy few days. Up early, out late, walking cour Full Story

  • Day 5: A Winning Daily Double
    The list of great courses in Scotland is long: St. Andrews (of course), Muirfield, Carnoustie, Turnberry, Dornoch,
  • Slaves To The Weather
    Traveling golfers in Scotland have few worries. Usually someone else is doing the driving, and in our case it’s Angus
  • Day 4: Learning Links Golf
    I think that if you asked most Americans who’ve played golf in Scotland to name their favorite course, about 7 ou
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Day 4: Learning Links Golf

I think that if you asked most Americans who’ve played golf in Scotland to name their favorite course, about 7 out of 10 would say Turnberry. The Ailsa course—where Tom Watson beat Jack Nicklaus in the 1977 British Open, nicknamed the “duel in the sun”; where Greg Norman won his first major ch Full Story

Lewis Black, Goose Gossage, Turning Stone Resort—and me?

I know, that headline reads like the old Sesame Street song, “One of these things is not like the other.” Although honestly, it’s as if they’re all unlike the others. Which is why I’m telling this story. Start with Lewis Black. Hard as it may be to believe, the stand-up comedian is a golfer. Not Full Story