Going to admire these pictures of my happy places (Picadome and Kearney Hill) and maybe dissociate for a while. Spring and summer will be here soon enough.
Happy Mardi Gras, everybody.

Robert Duvall, Norman MacDonald, and Garth Brooks walk into a game show skit titled..."Who's More Grizzled?!"

One of my favorite skits of all-time, and one of Duvall's roles that I'll always cherish. Go find it on the interwebs.

They were Nihilists, man.

Bandon Dunes - what a tremendously fun walk. Tough to think of many courses that more perfectly fit the land on which they are draped. I love those greens, even if they don't always love me back.

There had been several finishers and first-time accomplishments the past several years...

Wailea Gold Course - site of the Champions Skins game in days of yore, this forgiving, gently rolling beauty encourages heroic shot making with wide landing areas and greens. And some of the best mongoose watching on the planet.

Happy Smoking Laz Day to all who celebrate!!!

Harmony Landing Course - Big Spring CC
A loop around this rolling, cambered club course where Justin Thomas spent his youth digging it out of the dirt reveals why he's been such a good ball striker for much of his career. Every lie, fairway, rough, or bunker was...complicated.

Farm Neck - a private club course with rare and refreshing public golfer access, it's a meandering walk that flirts with Sengekontacket Pond. I can't wait to get back and see the recent refresh.

Belterra GC - A low-key casino-supported Tom Fazio design in the Ohio River flood plain. Usually in wonderful condition, a perfect pleasant routing with those signature smooth, wide bunkers framing the strategy of many shots. It's fine.

The Fields - so many thrilling shots, so many wonderful views. It's definitely a "play with your head up" place...if you bury your mind in your scorecard during the round there, you kind of missed the point.

There's still time for him to prove he's not Tony Eason.

Pacific Dunes - I've never been so disoriented in a routing in life. Phenomenal ground and course, improved only by watching my friend shoot the round of his life.

Running laps for screwing up unites all athletes everywhere.

"Honorary Louisville Fan Era"

Course at Sewanee.
There may not be a better example of a true community golf course in the United States. And it's such a GREAT golf course.

International Course, Omni at Championsgate.
It's a Greg Norman Florida course with pot bunkers and a bunch of aggressive lines begging to be taken from the tee. Kind of tough on a windy afternoon.

Eagle Ridge GC, Yatesville Lake State Park - this is one of those Arthur Hills courses that I'm not sure "should" have been built. It's an incredible spectacle, and has evolved into quite the hub for golf in far eastern Kentucky, but it's absolutely wild terrain for a course.

Ross Course at French Lick.
So many cool features. Folks fixate on the par threes, but there are so many cool greens, contours, and sight lines. I love that place.

Sounds like a banner day at Costco. 🤷‍♂️

Well, what in the Hell are all of the Ford Explorers and Expeditions supposed to wear now!?!?

Brickyard Crossing - it was cool to be playing a course that stretched inside the race track, but save for this volcano hole and the driveable par four on the back, this course kind of beat me up in very Pete Dye ways.

Lakes Course at Grand National - one of the more fun, hacker-friendly courses of the Alabama RTJ Trail. Still had plenty of punishing Jones-Rulewich features, but some of the more attackable greens on the entire Trail.

Fun fact: original host of the Barbasol Championship.

The Willows, Courses of Kenton County - just a solid 70's parkland routing. Plenty of challenges from +/- 6,700 yards from the back tees from Dr. Hurdzan that would probably benefit from thinning out the trees.

The Spoon would be proud.

That's terrifying.