The Royal Calcutta is the oldest golf club in the world outside of the UK. Founded in 1829, the “Royal” moved to its present location in Tollygunge, a district then on the southern outskirts of the city, in 1910. (There is also a Tollygunge Country Club, just down a lane and across the road from […]
Tiger Now More Popular in Italy!
I spoke today to a Roman friend, someone very well connected in Italian political, media and business circles. Here’s what he said regarding the fallout from the Tiger scandal. In Italy they now love much more Tiger. He’s more famous now than he ever was before. Every day it was front page for like two weeks. People, […]
In the Forests of the Night: The Fall of Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods’ slide from grace was lubricated by hypocrisy. Right after he turned professional, Woods spent some time with a canny reporter in New York, and the resulting portrait of a wise-cracking, flirty and slightly scatological young man terrified Tiger’s handlers, who then lowered an iron curtain secure enough to have made the Kremlin proud. […]
A Conversation with David McLay Kidd
Second in a Series David McLay Kidd’s first golf course design project, Bandon Dunes on the Oregon coast, was a spectacular success, launching a career that is, judged by the standard biographical trajectory of most prominent golf course architects, still in its adolescence. An unlikely prodigy in a profession whose leading practitioners emphasize the virtue […]
Notes from the Asia Pacific Golf Summit
The Asia Pacific Golf Summit in Kuala Lumpur in late October highlighted the degree to which people who make their living in the game are praying that the decision to include golf as an Olympic sport, starting in 2016 in Rio, will revive our moribund industry. The Summit was a pretty typical example of its […]
Great Wall as Home Depot
A Great Chimney My friends Robert Devine and Shan Zhou are developing a fantastic eco-resort at the base of a section of the Great Wall north of Beijing. Almost 20 kilometers of Great Wall forms a looping boundary of the valley into which the amenities of the resort will be fitted. It runs atop a ridge […]