Sumulong Trail

Benjie Sumulong always takes the shortcut on the fifth hole at the Moose Run Creek course, the hole with two distinct fairways. Sumulong always fires his driver down the narrow fairway on the left and I’ve never seen him miss it. Therefore, that left fairway will forever be known as the Sumulong trail.

Dead Man’s Walk

There is a book by that title, written by Larry McMurtry, the same McMurtry who wrote the famous Lonesome Dove story. Dead Man’s Walk is a prequel to that story. The book’s title refers to a particularly brutal stretch of desert in Mexico that the book’s characters have to traverse by foot and barely survive. […]

Ben Hogan won a fifth U.S. Open nobody knows about

The interesting thing about Ben Hogan’s mysterious U.S. Open victory isn’t that it was his fifth title that he never gets credit for. The interesting thing is how the tournament was hidden in plain sight in 1942. Considering it disrespectful to hold a U.S. Open while World War II was going on, the powers that […]