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Birdies and Brews: Introduction
Bread and butter, meat and potatoes, Laverne and Shirley, baseball and hot dogs, golf and beer. Great pairs are together for a reason, and while the flinty soul of golf may have been forged in the home...
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Birdies and Brews Part 1: St. Andrews, Scotland
<Previous: Birdies and Brews: Introduction Next: Birdies and Brews Part 2: San Diego, California> Another night at Dunvegan's Having dissed Ireland, we’ll salve the Celtic soul at the venerable...
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Birdies and Brews Part 2: San Diego, California
< Previous: Birdies and Brews Part 1: St. Andrews, Scotland Next: Birdies and Brews Part 3: Vermont> Melody Pierce fills a pint at Toronado San Diego There’s so much great brewing going on in San...
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Birdies and Brews Part 3: Vermont
< Previous: Birdies and Brews Part 2: San Diego, California Next: Birdies and Brews Part 4: Orlando, Florida> Okay, but where in Vermont? No, all of Vermont. The latest Brewers Association stats...
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Birdies and Brews Part 4: Orlando, Florida
< Previous: Birdies and Brews Part 3: Vermont Next: Birdies and Brews Part 5: Kohler, WI and Bandon Dunes, OR> This is a stretch, because while the golf in Orlando is wildly abundant, the good...
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Birdies and Brews Part 5: Kohler, Wisconsin and Bandon Dunes, Oregon
< Previous: Birdies and Brews Part 4: Orlando Beer tasting by the Kohler Design Center's Great Wall of China We decided to give up and declare a tie here, between two of the best golf resorts...
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TAP Beer of the Week: Ailsa Amber Ale
Ailsa Amber Ale is currently available in only one place in the world, and I’m lucky enough to be here–at the Turnberry Resort in southwest Scotland. The beer is named after the Ailsa golf course,...
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TAP Beer of the Week: Prohibition
Couldn't quite get all the Half Moon Bay beer, fire pit and golf view in from this angle. May 28, 2012–An ice bucket of beer in the room was the first pleasant surprise of a visit last week to the...
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The Bold Taste of the Kohler Festival of Beer
It’s about enough for a Vermonter like me to head to the Kohler Festival of Beer in Wisconsin just to score some Midwest specialties I rarely see: Contortor Porter or Ambergeddon from Ale Asylum;...
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All in the Family
The American Club in Kohler, Wisconsin [<<Previous post: The Bold Taste of the Kohler Festival of Beer] In more or less chronological order, Kohler has been: a family, a business, a town, and a...
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By the Great Wall of China
[<<Previous post on the Festival: All in the Family] The Festival of Beer grew out of the success of the Kohler Food & Wine Experience, which will unfold for the twelfth time this October....
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Blackwolf Run Beer Challenge and Million Dollar Shootout
[<<Previous post on the Festival: By the Great Wall of China] The home hole at Meadow Valleys They’re having a golf tournament at the resort’s Blackwolf Run in July, a little something called the...
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These Women Are Hot!
Looking deceptively benign, the eighteenth hole of The Championship Course at Blackwolf Run [Round updates in Comments section below] Chances are the Original Championship Course at Blackwolf Run would...
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The Good Luck Skunk
Bleary-eyed a little after four in the morning and that many hours sleep, I drove through the dark toward the airport and another Golf Road Warriors adventure, this one to Gaylord, Michigan. My first...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Gaylord
Signature course sixteenth hole While no stranger to Michigan golf, I’ve never made it to Gaylord before, and my immersion today reminded me of a dip I took years ago in chilly Lake Michigan at the...
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Premier Time (and Space)
Cast of "How I Met Your Mother" One of the reasons I like the television show “How I Met Your Mother” is that it often imaginatively plays around with notions of fate and time—if this didn’t happen...
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Great Scotland Golf Giveaway
Turnberry Travelpro WalkAbout Lite 4 Suiter The A Position has partnered with world-class travel company PerryGolf to give away a trip for four to Scotland that is pretty mouth-watering. The contest...
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San Diego Makes the Doozy Dozen
Barona Creek Golf Course Here at The A Position we’re given a topic to address (or not) each month for The A List feature, in 150 words or fewer. For September we did as we have in the past few months,...
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To the Golfing Glory That is Greece
Seventh hole at Navarino Dunes framed by olive trees There is a statue in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens dated to about 510-500 B.C. At its base is the representation of two men, holding...
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How to Plan a Golf Trip (or Not)
Does anyone snore? is not the first question that needs to be answered when planning a golf trip with fellow players. It’s probably about the sixth, though it should be asked, since if room sharing is...
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