Courses Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/courses Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:16:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Courses Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/courses 32 32 Dugmar GC: The Curious Story of a Golf Course Submerged https://www.halphillips.net/dugmar-the-curious-story-of-a-golf-course-submerged?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dugmar-the-curious-story-of-a-golf-course-submerged https://www.halphillips.net/dugmar-the-curious-story-of-a-golf-course-submerged#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:03:14 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=23 [Ed. This story appeared in March/April 2003 issue Golf Journal magazine.] The Swift River started rising in the rural Massachusetts town of Greenwich on Aug. 14, 1939, and soon enough the fairways at Dugmar Golf Club had become unseasonably soggy. After a time the layout’s bunkers and teeing grounds were completely submerged, and had the […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/dugmar-the-curious-story-of-a-golf-course-submerged/feed 5 Hal Phillips, A Fine Golfing Ambassador: 1936-2011 https://www.halphillips.net/hal-phillips-a-fine-golfing-ambassador-1936-2011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hal-phillips-a-fine-golfing-ambassador-1936-2011 https://www.halphillips.net/hal-phillips-a-fine-golfing-ambassador-1936-2011#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:30:42 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1006 My father and namesake, Harold G. Phillips Jr., passed away Saturday, Aug. 27, after a 15-month battle with lymphoma, and so I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about him this past week. Most of this bittersweet rumination has nothing to do with golf but some of it surely does. He’s the guy who introduced […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/hal-phillips-a-fine-golfing-ambassador-1936-2011/feed 17 The Joys of Disc Golf: Yeah, you heard me right… https://www.halphillips.net/the-joys-of-disc-golf-yeah-you-heard-me-right?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-joys-of-disc-golf-yeah-you-heard-me-right https://www.halphillips.net/the-joys-of-disc-golf-yeah-you-heard-me-right#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:56:02 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=479 Starting this weekend, in honor of The Masters, we’re “Fighting the Pieties that Be” here at halphillips.net by celebrating golf’s non-traditional, even subversive appeal. Friday we featured the internally illuminated, colorfully sequined mannequins I recently came across in a Vietnamese pro shop. Today’s topic: Disc Golf. Nothing rolls the eyes of traditional golfers than a […]

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