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SNOW COHEN |
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By Richard Lees on
12/17/2008 11:17 AM
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SNOW COHEN
I keep a notebook of “Steve Cohen-ism’s” which, over the years I’ve known the founder and indefatigable leader of The Shivas Irons Society, has morphed into something I think of more as Koan-ism’s, as I’ve found that our conversations not only produce momentary smiles, but language that I find soothing when recollected in tranquility. There is no pretense about it -- we’re not talking Dr. Johnson an ...
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Mind The Gap |
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By Richard Lees on
12/5/2008 4:16 PM
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“Mind the gap” has always been one of my favorite expressions.
Although no one ever produced more from these three simple words than Dickens in “Great Expectations,” we all come to terms with the space between expectation and reality. Certainly all who pick up a golf club do.
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ONE WINS -- THE OTHER DOESN'T |
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By Richard Lees on
9/10/2008 9:49 AM
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ONE WINS -- THE OTHER DOESN'T
When Camillo Villegas started smelling the finish line in his first Tour victory at the BMW last weekend, it was interesting to note that his demeanor sharpened and elevated and, in fact, turned inward with intensity.
When Sergio Garcia has gotten close, his reactions have been very different: he starts looking up at the sky, at his clubs, at spike marks on greens, at the long grass of the rough he suddenly finds himself stuck in.
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PASATIEMPO |
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By Richard Lees on
9/8/2008 1:20 PM
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PASATIEMPO
Our 16-year Anniversary event at Pasatiempo on 08.21.08 was a wonderful day of golf played, as is par for the Society, on one of the world’s great courses, as well as in the hearts and minds of all the lucky members who journeyed to Santa Cruz this year. For, this year Fred Shoemaker, of Extraordinary Golf, offered up the keynote before we hit the links, and it was nothing less than “The Mystery of Golf Revealed.”
I first encountered Fred at my very first Shivas event ...
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