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 rea... Read more
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 Chino... Read more
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 exe... Read more
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-M... Read more
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 cozin... Read more
By: Jeff Thoreson So there’s a black fly in your chardonnay? Ironic, and maybe a legit reason to drive you away from chardonnay. You read Laura Holmes Haddad’s book Anything but Chardonnay?... Read more
By: Jeff Thoreson History rarely walks hand-in-hand with golf, though there are many examples where the two meet. Only in Williamsburg, Virginia, do they enjoy a marriage of golden proportio... Read more