by Jeff Thoreson | Feb 18, 2021
By Jeff Thoreson I have been to the end of the Earth and damn if there isn’t a golf course there. When you arrive at the 15th green at Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, you’ve reached the edge. You can go no farther. At the back of the green, the Earth...
by Jeff Thoreson | Feb 18, 2021
By Jeff Thoreson The large wine store where I like to go to wander the aisles like the DIY-ers wander around the big-box home improvement centers offers just two bottles of wine from Chinon, France. Really? To me, that’s like Lowes offering just two colors of paint....
by Jeff Thoreson | Jan 20, 2021
By Jeff Thoreson If you’ve spent this “pause” contemplating the next bucket-list golf trip you need to check off, put New Zealand near the top. It’s handling of the pandemic was an exemplary model for the world; it’s early lockdown notable for both its stringency and...
by Jeff Thoreson | Jun 29, 2020
By: Jeff Thoreson It turns out good advice can be like good wine – sometimes it shows up in the most unexpected of places, like a small cafe or an underground cave in the commune of Villie-Morgon, France. We arrived in Morgon on a pleasant spring morning in search of...
by Jeff Thoreson | Apr 30, 2020
By: Jeff Thoreson Call me a milksop, a namby-pamby, a cry baby, a wimp – all of which my friends would have on a May day a few years back in Ballybunion had I not pried myself from the coziness of hotel lobby peat fire to join them in a round on the Old Course on a...
