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Call it the Tiger Woods-Roger Federer debate, Winter Olympics-style. On Wednesday, the two most heavily hyped Americans in the Vancouver Olympic Games, skier Lindsey Vonn and half-pipe snowboarder Shaun White, lived up to the billing and dominated their respective events, winning two golds. Like Woods in golf and Federer in tennis, they're both transcendent talents who have set the standards of greatness in their sports. One of the more popular arguments among sports fans is the question of whose accomplishment is more impressive, Woods' 14 major golf titles or Federer's record 16 Grand Slams. What...
...fact is, I enjoyed any occasion to spend time with Bob. The casual observer who may have seen us play golf or hunt over the past 50 years might have thought we were wasting our time if our goal was to demonstrate any true proficiency. But they would have missed the point. The real goal, for me at least, was to spend time with a man who loved life, loved his wonderful family and was patriotic to the core...
...ventured in his autobiography that Huck became "a justice of the peace in a remote village in Montana and was a good citizen and greatly respected." An essayist in Time conjured Holden at 40 as a Columbia alum who left his PR job to become a country club golf pro; divorced and remarried with two daughters, he ended up teaching at a prep school in dangerous, dirty 1970s New York. For the many of us who’d identified with Holden in our adolescence, it compounded our horror to learn that John Lennon’s murderer carried...
...have never been able to play golf. The few times when my parents were able to get me on a course, I would last about three holes before my attention began to wander. Admittedly, I was never very good, which makes playing quite difficult...
...Florida over J-Term, I decided that it was time to give it another try (the weather also happened to be unseasonably cold, so there wasn’t really much else to do). My first game of nine holes was interesting, to say the least. While the sporadic golf lessons of my youth served me well, the game was not exactly a success. Randomly I would make a great shot, which would cause my mother to emit a siren-like sound—“Whoowhoo!”—to let me know that...