United States Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/united-states Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:41:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg United States Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/united-states 32 32 Thai Golf: Where Buddy Trips are Writ Large and Bawdy https://www.halphillips.net/thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large https://www.halphillips.net/thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:41:09 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=265 PATTAYA, Thailand (Sept. 5, 2017) — It’s 11 p.m. local time and my 8-man golfing gaggle is strolling down the main drag here. Pattaya’s “Walking Street” is the epicenter what most consider the capital of Thai Golf. The days and nights we’ve spent here, south of Bangkok, depart so radically from typical North American buddy […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large/feed 2 Welsh Golf Exceeds the Hype in Unexpected, Arthurian Ways https://www.halphillips.net/welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways https://www.halphillips.net/welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:36:26 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=213 HARLECH, Wales (July 13, 2017) — The British Open is nearly underway and, while there are myriad reasons to visit the U.K. with your golf clubs, none of them have much to do with British Open venues. Look at Wales, located right next door to this year’s host, Royal Birkdale — to all of England, if […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways/feed 0 Coats, Ties and Foursomes: UK College Golf in the ’80s was a Breed Apart https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart#comments Fri, 05 May 2017 07:39:57 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=90 SUGAR GROVE, Ill. (May 5, 2017) — For all the trans-Atlantic DNA we share with our British cousins, it’s easy and, I daresay, natural to assume that UK college golf is pretty much a comp for the exercise here in the U.S. Not so. Not today, not forty years ago when I played for the […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart/feed 2 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 USA v. Mexico: Americans exposed at the back https://www.halphillips.net/usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback https://www.halphillips.net/usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:31:26 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=641     Behold, the Unsightly American Soccer Podcast for the week of June 27, 2011. The Gold Cup has concluded, and the Mexicans, by virtue of their 4-2 victory, have laid claim to biannual honors as top dog in CONCACAF. This is our Federation, of course, the agglomeration of North American, Central American and Caribbean […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories/feed 0 A Tale of Two Soccer Melting Pots https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:11:58 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=153   By Dee Schmidt One of the things you need to know about me is that while I’m counter-cultural and an American through and through (you can be both, my brothers and sisters), my paternal ancestry is seriously Teutonic. Dig: My dad was Austrian and because the heyday of Austrian football came in the 1930s […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots/feed 0 Defrosted Retromensch serves up pre-WC punditry https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry#respond Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:09:50 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=133   By Dee Schmidt Hello, world. I’m from the ‘70s and if you’re reading this, you’re probably not. So bear with me, future dudes. I’ve spent 32 of the last 36 years frozen solid, biding my time at the bottom of an ever-expanding trash heap on the snow-white shores of Hudson Bay. I’m from Encinitas, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry/feed 0 Soccer’s own Encinitas Man to contribute WC 2010 reports https://www.halphillips.net/soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports https://www.halphillips.net/soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports#respond Wed, 26 May 2010 19:02:05 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=79   The curious, inspirational story of Dieter “Dee” Schmidt first came to the soccer world’s attention some four ago when his frozen but otherwise well preserved body — clad in nothing but a vintage Paul Breitner Bayern Munich jersey, impossibly bell-bottomed jeans and a pair of antique adidas Sambas — was recovered, thanks to a […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports/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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