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 Traveling Golfer Staff | Jun 29, 2020
To Ryder Cup…OR NOT?? When the NCAA announced that it would hold its 2020 men’s basketball tournament without fans, I announced that I would not be watching or bracketing. It’s not that I thought the NCAA was making the wrong decision. The organization was...
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...