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Golf Columnist WR Marshall: Course Nazi (7/16/08
- By WR Marshall
- Published 07/16/2008
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Rangers, the last bastion of the true amateur. They don’t get paid, they have little or no training, most of the time they don’t even get a shirt. They’re the men and women who have a love of the game and a lot of free time. They cruise the links and keep the game running smoothly…when they’re not driving real slow along the rough looking for lost Pro V1s. WR Marshall's Golf Column: Me And Johny One Foot, Jonesin' (3/4/08)
- By James Raia
- Published 03/4/2008
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Me and Johnny One Foot are hangin’ at the Muni, puttin’ for nickels, waitin’ for our boy, hogan to show so we can tee-off. (Yeah, it’s hogan with a small ‘h’. He’s good, but he ain’t big ‘H’ good, and he ain’t nearly mean enough to want the big ‘H’.) One Foot blows it by the hole and sez, “I hear hogan is jonesin’ again.” I shake my head without lookin’ up and miss the putt. “Driver?” sez I. “Nah,” sez Johnny One Foot, sinking the comeback.
WR Marshall's Golf Column: Not All Hackers Created Equal (1/16/08)
- By WR Marshall
- Published 01/16/2008
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I came to golf late in life. Not the AARP rate if I play before 8 a.m., and don't forget the senior discount in the club house late, but a bit too late too have the muscle memory I’d have if I’d played as a kid.Hence, I have days where it looks like I can play, and I may be able to sniff 80, but those are countered by a greater number of days when I hack it up so badly I give my playing partners permission to me from course like I’m the gopher in Caddyshack.
I spent my youth surfing and climbing and getting hit in the head and jumping off things that should have resulted in insurance canceling injury. Somehow I dodged that bullet, and when sense finally found a way into my addled, waterlogged brain, golf found me a willing pupil.
Golf Columnist WR Marshall: Slice And Punishment (12/18/07)
- By WR Marshall
- Published 12/17/2007
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If you play golf you know the truth: Golf clubs are inherently evil. Every one of them will betray you at some point.From your putter through your driver, each Hell spawn is just waiting for you to press the bet, or be two up with one to play (ask Phil), and when that moment comes, they stick it to you.
Golf Columnist WR Marshall: Devils In My Head (11/18/07)
- By WR Marshall
- Published 11/18/2007
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I am a golfer. I know this because I have this sweet pair of shorts with little embodied golf flags on them that only a golfer can wear.It’s this simple bit of J. Crew attire that marks my psychology as not just someone who plays golf, but as someone who is a golfer. And there’s a big difference.
