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Match-play format encourages mind games

And whatever the pairings, this won't be your typical PGA Tour Sunday. "Match play is something we're not accustomed to, it's so different, there's a certain apprehension involved," said Jay Haas, assistant to U.S. captain Fred Couples and a ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Jay Haas,  Tiger Woods,  Tom Watson,  Mike Weir,  Fred Couples

Harding Park: hole by hole

Here's a look at how the course will play for the Presidents Cup, based on the observations of Harding Director of Golf Rodney Wilson, who's got pro distance off the tee, and Sandy Tatum, who conceptualized the 16-month redesign of the golf course, ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Oct 2009
Related Topics: PGA,  Padraig Harrington

Harding's heavy hitters

There's some question about how many love affairs distracted Warren G. Harding during his short term as the nation's 29th president. But there's no question that one of them was with the game of golf. Harding, according to most accounts, played two or ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, RON KROICHICK, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Warren G. Harding,  Chevy Chase,  Secret Service,  U.S. Congress,  Walter Hagen

With the lake on your right, you can't go wrong

Besides, there's such a variety of themes to a stop-and-go drive around the lake. Stop so you shop. Stop to restaurant or bar hop. Stop for a drop on a sandy beach. Stop to mop up the greenbacks at a card table or two. Or stop for historic home tours, ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  30 Aug 2009

Get a load of Napa, take the Wine Train

The locals have stopped their grumbling as the tourists have rolled the turnstiles along. But is it all about the tourists? Is it possible that wine-savvy Northern Californians might want to climb aboard in this year of the stay-at-home vacation? The ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  23 Aug 2009

Portable powder room

When I was a little girl on my first camping trip, I decided to find a tree and pee the way my three brothers did. Oops. My mother laughed so hard, she - well, never mind. I'm not sure whether I say this with pride or not, but now I can go that way, ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Aug 2009

Friendly restaurants in Charleston

They're from out of town too - medical sales reps from Raleigh here for a convention of family physicians. And as we sit at the bar in High Cotton reviewing the dessert options with our super-friendly bartender, Korey, I ask, "What's with Charleston ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Aug 2009

Fresh food just out the door in Wine Country

In the Wine Country, where one sips a libation produced in the fields just outside the tasting room, it makes sense to eat food produced in gardens just outside the restaurant. OK, so we don't want to eat beef where the cows are slaughtered. This is a ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Costco

The time is now for golf lovers at Lake Tahoe

Besides, think of the money one would save. Rather than play golf two days in a row, thus requiring two nights' lodging, and rather than spending nongolfing time, and, thus, money, in casinos, one can totally immerse oneself in the chase of the dimpled ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Peter Jacobsen,  Golf Digest,  AT&T Inc.

Find those perfect gifts in Truckee's shops

And that bears good tidings for the noncrafty among us: Great craft makes for great shopping, particularly for that unique, one-of-a-kind gift for the unique, one-of-a-kind recipient we all know and love and cannot possibly please with anything from a ...

From SUSAN FORNOFF, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Lulu (musician)

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