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Howard Riefs

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The New Yorker: Oakmont, Askernish, Old Course & more
« on: July 25, 2014, 01:55:35 PM »
The New Yorker "un-locked" all of its articles published since 2007. (It's essentially a small gift before its new metered paywall strategy kicks in this fall: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/note-readers)

While obviously the HWW gems (e.g,. "North to the Links of Dornoch") pre-date, there are a handful of solid GCA-related articles over the years that are worth (re)-reading, including:

"The Ghost Course"
David Ownen travels to Askernish
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/20/the-ghost-course?currentPage=all

"Linksland and Bottle"
John McPhee reports on the 2010 Open Championship at TOC
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/06/linksland-and-bottle

"RIP Van Golfer"
John McPhee with notes from the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/06/rip-van-golfer

Golf Digest captured these as well as a few others in this post:  
http://www.golfdigest.com/blogs/the-loop/2014/07/7-new-yorker-stories-about-gol.html


And, while in the "OT" category, here's a round up of the various "here's a list of the New Yorker articles you should read this summer" lists:

http://www.theawl.com/2014/07/all-the-new-yorker-story-roundups-you-should-read-while-the-stories-are-still-unlocked-as-well-as-all-the-new-yorker-stories-they-link-to

Happy reading.
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Rich Goodale

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Re: The New Yorker: Oakmont, Askernish, Old Course & more
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2014, 03:44:47 PM »
Thanks very much, Howard.  Some great writing in the pieces and even occasionally some great insights.  I liked the reference to Breughel re: the outward hook on the old course as it reminded me of Auden's poem:

Musee des Beaux Arts

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

How many of us have crashed and burned (in our own ways) like Icarus, in our own games?

Rich
Life is good.

Any afterlife is unlikely and/or dodgy.

Jean-Paul Parodi

Colin Macqueen

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Re: The New Yorker: Oakmont, Askernish, Old Course & more
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 06:27:22 PM »
Gentlemen,

Just bumping this to the top of the class as I wouldn't want any of the literati here to miss out on some top-notch writing!

Cheers Colin
"Golf, thou art a gentle sprite, I owe thee much"
The Hielander

Ryan Taylor

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Re: The New Yorker: Oakmont, Askernish, Old Course & more
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2014, 09:43:16 AM »
"Linksland and Bottle" was a great read. Loved the section on the loop. One of my favorite spots in the world! The interaction between groups on 7 and 11 is one characteristic that makes TOC a "holy" place.
"Bandon is like Chamonix for skiers or the North Shore of Oahu for surfers,” Rogers said. “It is where those who really care end up."

Steve Green

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Re: The New Yorker: Oakmont, Askernish, Old Course & more
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2014, 12:29:16 AM »
Thanks Howard, as always solid reading recommendations.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

rboyce

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Re: The New Yorker: Oakmont, Askernish, Old Course & more
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2014, 06:38:49 PM »
I enjoyed reading John McPhee's piece on ballhawking and...other stuff...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/01/the-orange-trapper

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