BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Golfer's Paradise

It's golfer's month here in Thailand this October!

I had dinner with some friends at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club that doubles as a golf course and a race track in downtown Bangkok.

Pretty flat golf course but the whole club/coarse adds a nice touch to the Thai capital with the greens and quiet scenery. Kinda like Central Park in a smaller capacity. The horse races I am told are every other week and I would imagine it must get pretty noisy for the golfers.

In the Siam Paragon mall, the third level has like five huge golf stores side by side. Inside the mall's department store there are huge billboards of Michelle Wie and Tiger Woods. And mall security patrols in golf carts!

Golf is booming in this country. They've got like 250 golf courses all over.

How cool is that!

Posted by Rick Olivares

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