Another few days in Paradise
Visiting far-flung locations to play golf for the benefit of readers is a tough life, but someone has to do it.
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The spirits of Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond, 24 miles from top to bottom, is the largest loch in Scotland.
Breakaway: the Jaguar F-Type 400 Sport
A blown-out setting sun, the world a lemon-amber blur, ripping through the desert with the wind all around, squinting at the brilliance and drunk on the sound, like canvas being torn to shreds, a sublime engine note severing the last few threads that bind me to an otherwise unremarkable day.
Behind the Wheel: 15 years of test drives
It’s true: I put dad’s brand new Datsun through the wall of a mobile home kitchen—I broke everything but the kitchen sink!
Augusta National: Building Berckmans’ Place
If walls could talk, the stories coming out of the clubhouse at Augusta National would make for an epic movie.
When Mr. Palmer talked, we listened: the AP interviews
A highlight of producing every issue of Kingdom during Arnold Palmer’s life was the opportunity to interview him on a range of subjects. Here are some highlights from the archives
Living London: Local Knowledge
This is a guide that digs beneath the brochures and package deals and it’s timely too, with the dollar about as strong against the British pound as ever. You book the flights and we’ll do the rest.
Jim McMahon: Quarterback Punk
One of the most charismatic and controversial figures in NFL history, Jim McMahon has fluid drained from his brain four times per year.
My Motorcycle: The Missing Piece
My motorcycle is half an hour away, parked under a tarp that’s carefully fastened so that the rain we do not have in Southern California and the sun, which we do, will not trouble the leather seat, the chrome exhaust or the fenders that I last polished so many months ago.
Old Town, New Look: the whisky of Campbeltown
In a remote corner of the Kintyre peninsula, the Scottish town of Campbeltown was easily forgotten for a couple generations when its distilleries all but closed down.
East to West: India Pale Ale
In the late 18th century the British started exporting lightly hopped “pale” ales to India, slaking the thirst of expats in their new territory with beer brewed from a pale malt.
Golf amongst the vines
Bordeaux is the very heart of the wine trade, it has been for centuries; but only very recently has the city emerged as a destination to compare to its wines, as Robin Barwick discovered.
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