Sport Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/sport 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 Sport Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/sport 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 Coats, Ties and Foursomes: Collegiate Golf in the UK https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-college-golf-in-the-uk?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coat-ties-and-foursomes-college-golf-in-the-uk https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-college-golf-in-the-uk#comments Fri, 05 May 2017 07:39:57 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=90 For all the trans-Atlantic DNA we share with our British golfing brethren, it’s easy and, I daresay, somewhat natural to assume that college golf here in the U.S. is pretty much the same as it is over there. Not so. Top players from the U.K. (and mainland Europe) routinely travel stateside to hone their games at American […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-college-golf-in-the-uk/feed 2 B-listed by the USGA, Riviera Ponders What Might Have Been https://www.halphillips.net/baddeley-wins-riviera-ponders-what-might-have-been?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=baddeley-wins-riviera-ponders-what-might-have-been https://www.halphillips.net/baddeley-wins-riviera-ponders-what-might-have-been#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2017 07:51:27 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=342   [This piece was first posted in 2011. It seemed a good time to revisit, with the U.S. Open visiting yet another public course this June… hp] I suppose we should count our blessings that a magnificent course like Riviera — a 1926 George Thomas design firmly ensconced in all the Top 100 lists that […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/baddeley-wins-riviera-ponders-what-might-have-been/feed 0 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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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/the-joys-of-disc-golf-yeah-you-heard-me-right/feed 1 Unsightly American Soccer Podcast: April 4, 2011 https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011 https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:55:52 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=466 Join Hal Phillips and a cast of characters/correspondents spanning the Globe to discuss  the burning, hot, molten issues of the footballing day. This week we talk with Tom Wadlington about the two international friendlies the U.S. played last week, vs. Argentina and Paraguay. Hal and Tom also touch on the fate of Jozy Altidore, the […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011/feed 0 The Curmudgeon: Golf’s Most Bracing Pod https://www.halphillips.net/the-curmudgeon-golf-s-most-bracing-pod?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-curmudgeon-golf-s-most-bracing-pod https://www.halphillips.net/the-curmudgeon-golf-s-most-bracing-pod#respond Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:23:18 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=225   We know how it is. You like your golf. You might even love it, but the game’s fawning media echo chamber leaves you cold, and often woefully ill-informed. Perhaps The Curmudgeon — the golf podcast that dares speak truth to power — is for you. Join host Hal Phillips and a panoply of journalists […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/the-curmudgeon-golf-s-most-bracing-pod/feed 0 World Cup Nostalgia: Ultimately, it was televised https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-cup-tv-memories https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories#respond Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:20:26 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=169 Like the Olympic Games, the World Cup comes round but once every four years. Unlike the modern Olympiad, the World Cup has only recently attracted the exhaustive attention of television programmers, a fact driven home to me by my friend and colleague, Dieter Schmidt, in his debut column at halphillips.net. There was indeed no international […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories/feed 0 The Golf Tee & Dentistry: Now it can be told https://www.halphillips.net/the-golf-tee-dentistry-now-it-can-be-told?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-golf-tee-dentistry-now-it-can-be-told https://www.halphillips.net/the-golf-tee-dentistry-now-it-can-be-told#respond Wed, 26 May 2010 18:43:23 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=53 Some golfers look at things the way they are and ask “Why?” Dr. Venanzio Cardarelli dreams of things that never were and asks, “Could you open a little wider please?” Cardarelli, a practicing dentist who holds some 20 different U.S. patents, is the D.M.D. behind the Aero-Tee, a three-pronged, polycarbonate, cuspid-shaped ball platform that he […]

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