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Complimentary

My wife was warned before we were married. I’m not physically gift, but I love to play sports. Here are some stories about how, on occasion, I feel like an MVP.

Swimming With the Big Fish

In 2000, Tiger Woods won golf’s US Open. He did so in historic fashion — he was the only person under par in the entire field and wound up winning by 15 strokes. In doing so, he held the title for all four of professional golf’s major tournaments. This earned him continued comparisons with the [...]

God and Uncle Pat

My grandfather built Bey Lea Golf Course. That’s right, built it.
He, my dad, my Uncle Pat, and a crew of hand-picked workers cleared the land, sculpted the fairways and greens, laid the irrigation system, planted the grass, and all that. Pop was in charge of it all.
I played a round of golf with Uncle Pat [...]

The Buck Stops Here

It is obvious to me that the reasons that we were told that our armies needed to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein were wrong. Iraq was not in cahoots with al Qaida. Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and weren’t poised to use them against us. Iraq was not actively building nuclear [...]

Dying Words

When I was a teenager, I considered a career in golf. I asked the only golf pro I knew, a young Art Robideaux. Crushing me with his words, he shamed me out of it.

Art Robideaux is my anti-Christ.