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From the “wish I’d taken this photo” department, Jackie Ricciardi’s pic from the 2012 Masters of fans cowering from an errant tee-shot. I think the caption said it was Tigger’s tee-ball on #1. (Can’t we now add an extra “g” in there to indicate he’s not the same guy he once was?) It’d be interesting to pursue these, throughout the year. You’d need to stalk landing areas, 270 to 310 yards from the tee, and you’d probably want to be on the left side to catch those big-miss pull-hooks. You’d have to attend big tournaments where there are enough spectators to fill the frame (or you’d have to follow galleries like Tigger’s or Mickelson’s — someone who’s both popular and erratic off the tee-box). I’ve never seen anything like it; I love how it opens-up from being a pure sports-journalism photo into something that may not have anything to do with golf or sports at all.

From the “wish I’d taken this photo” department, Jackie Ricciardi’s pic from the 2012 Masters of fans cowering from an errant tee-shot. I think the caption said it was Tigger’s tee-ball on #1. (Can’t we now add an extra “g” in there to indicate he’s not the same guy he once was?)

It’d be interesting to pursue these, throughout the year. You’d need to stalk landing areas, 270 to 310 yards from the tee, and you’d probably want to be on the left side to catch those big-miss pull-hooks. You’d have to attend big tournaments where there are enough spectators to fill the frame (or you’d have to follow galleries like Tigger’s or Mickelson’s — someone who’s both popular and erratic off the tee-box).

I’ve never seen anything like it; I love how it opens-up from being a pure sports-journalism photo into something that may not have anything to do with golf or sports at all.

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Shot my first par round of the year this morning. Kind of a mess out there, but five birdies and a chip-in eagle evened it all out.

Shot my first par round of the year this morning. Kind of a mess out there, but five birdies and a chip-in eagle evened it all out.

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A YouTube playlist for fans of "Art of Golf" @highmuseumofart

The “Art of Golf” exhibition at the High Museum opened on Sunday (I liked the Edgerton/Jones photos best) and if you’re the kind of person who’s interested in the intersection of art and athletics, I’ve put together a playlist you might appreciate.

It contains work I’ve made in the last three years — all of it on golf, which I’ve been seriously playing for the last two and a half years. There’s a six-month gap there, when I was spending time making the videos wondering, “why am I not playing this game?”

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