Photographs from the course, dispatches from recent rounds, and occasional commentary on the rules. More to come, as the schedule permits.
Dispatch · Abingdon, VA · 2004
Abingdon, Virginia, 2004. A freshman returns to the team van conspicuously soaked from the collar down. Pressed for details, he offers only that he had bent down to read a putt on the ninth green, and that the read had required commitment. The putt, for the record, did not fall. He did. You wanna try?
The tee →From the Archive · 2006
In the summer of 2006, Goat Hill hosted its inaugural — and, by informal agreement with the county, final — Men’s Member-Member. The dress code was interpreted loosely: vintage cycling shorts, no shirts, and a cigarette count that outpaced the stroke count by the third hole. No trophy survives. Several photographs do, and they remain sealed.
The commemorative tee →Commemorative · USA 250
There is a moment on a reachable par five — ball airborne on the second shot, outcome undecided — when someone in the group is obligated to say it: comin’ home, dude. For the nation’s 250th, we render the moment as it actually feels: a bald eagle, climbing, wings fully committed to the flagstick.
The tee →