Feeling like a bogey man in Syracuse

It happens every year at this time. I always put on my TV thinking it may make me feel better. The PGA Tour golfers are at the Kapalua Plantation Course in Hawaii for its annual Tournament of Champions. I dialed in my iPad Air at 5 p.m. Friday to snap a photo from round one.…

On Nov. 11, in Syracuse, N.Y., we played sunny golf

I’ve had a new saying lately. Syracuse is the new South Carolina. What I mean is … The periodic bursts of warm weather we’ve been getting this fall has been knocking me out. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day 2014, it reached 65 degrees in Syracuse, N.Y. That, my friends, is not the usual sort…

How far have the lines moved these days?

I couldn’t quite believe the news story the other week when I read deeper into the particulars about a honcho losing a prestigious position because of something said in public. Or, more precisely, something this middle-aged white American male tweeted to the world in reaction to comments made by a European golfer about an older-generation…

For my first entry to the Blog of Funny Names, I offer Fred Funk

Fred Funk is a friendly guy. Great name, for sure. Part button-down, part soul music. Everywhere the professional golfer goes, people follow like he’s the pied piper. He’s not big and strapping like some of these dudes who bash the little white golf ball so far you can’t stand next to them by the tee…

Golf can be about camaraderie during Ryder Cup week

Good friends off the course. Tremendous rivals from first tee to 18th green. I’m talking about KP, Tater and I with the first statement and the American and European teams for the bi-yearly Ryder Cup matches with the second. I assume that the off-course relationship for the 24 golfers from the professional squads should be…

It’s just a little water from the sky, daughter

As the first one of our foursome who arrived at Seneca Golf Course Sunday morning, I had great hopes that perhaps the gray day would at least remain dry until my daughter Elisabeth, her boyfriend George III and his father George II and myself got our nine holes in. I walked around and snapped the…

The sun shines on the last bumpy day of the golf league

It took one second for me to tell the Commish that yes, thank you, I would be attending since bad weather the week before had caused a one-week extension to the Tuesday 5:30 p.m. 9-hole golf league at Northern Pines in Cicero. After my eight-week hiatus for the 40-hour-per job, the return felt fine. The…

Oh, how we enjoyed our Sunday drive … and putting

We hadn’t been out on the course together in more than a month, me and my boys, so we were definitely ready to get together for our Sunday round at the Links at Erie Village. KP called on Wednesday and found plenty of morning tee times, took a straw poll on the greens fee-and-cart cost…

A pretty little golf course in the city

When my wonderful daughter Elisabeth and her terrific boyfriend George and I decided it was time for some Sunday golf, I suggested the little city golf course that’s just two miles from our house in our Eastwood neighborhood. They’d already been to Sunnycrest’s sister nine-hole, par-three course, Burnet Park, so they were eager to try…

An electrifying round at Rogues Roost

Of course I had to get one more weekday round of golf in before the new job started. It came at a pretty course in Madison County by the name of Rogues Roost East. It’s built around towers that carry power lines that cross a handful of holes. On several greens, in fact, when you…