Devin Redmond | dredmond@thedailydivot.com | 8 posts
The best Masters Redbud skip ever? Perhaps. The best ever caught on film? Definitely. As we wind up for a Masters weekend destined to be full of Tiger paparazzi and a cadre of bimbos crashing the perimeter fences of Augusta National, it’s worth taking a closer look at the more wholesome affair known as the “skippy” [...]
April 6, 2010
There’s no doubt that Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco is one of the most famous muni courses in the country. But like the fine city that lords over the land on which the course rests, Harding Park is full of contradictions. The old growth cypress trees and frequent fog cut away to reveal plenty of history and [...]
January 30, 2010
Now that the daily deluge of Tiger Woods related babble has slowed to a steady drip, I figure it’s time to weigh in with a few select observations. Many have faulted Tiger for failing to live up to his responsibilities as a role model and his almost complete lack of candor as events unfolded. Others [...]
December 3, 2009
To the long list of hardships endured by inhabitants of the African continent, you can now add the difficulty of finding errant tee shots off of the 1,400 foot high tee box at Legend Golf & Safari Resort in South Africa. That’s right, it’s about a quarter mile of vertical drop and over 600 yards [...]
December 1, 2009
Fred Astaire was a dancer and a golfer, but perhaps no one before or since has blended the two disciplines as seamlessly as the master does in this clip. It’s a good thing soft spikes weren’t around yet, because this routine just wouldn’t be the same. Looks to be from the 1930’s or ’40s but [...]
November 22, 2009
I can only describe my reaction as sheer horror, upon discovering that the Golf Gardens mini-golf course in Avalon on Catalina Island was closed for construction in May 2009. This was my first trip back to the Southern California island locale in a number of years, and a quick loop around this unique and historic [...]
April 6, 2010