Paul Hickey

3 days ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Paul Hickey

A conversation this weekend with close friend and accomplished painter, Tony Harris, brought an additional dimension to this ongoing debate around the large-scale removal of trees from golf courses (see U.S. Open venue Oakmont, or my June 11 column). After spending the first decade of his career as a full-time, commercial artist painting golf holes for a living, he moved into sports portraiture work, mostly commissions for the NHL and NHLPA.

1 month ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Paul Hickey

How on earth did we get here? When did golfers somehow decide that the answer to the question, “How’d you play today?” should be anything but the score you actually shot? The number. We talk about younger generations being raised not knowing what it means to lose. How everyone gets a medal. Nobody gets cut from the team. That there’s now a rep team for everyone. The pendulum has swung so far the other way that we are now in this weird place where nobody knows how to lose.

1 month ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Paul Hickey

Every once in a while the world’s elite touring pros say something that reminds me more of coddled, selfish prima donnas than hard-working, gracious athletes.  My golfing soul wants them to behave a certain way. To be accepting of bad bounces, to take bad weather in stride, and be a living example of why the game of golf is so special — because it has a way of mirroring life outside the ropes.

1 month ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Paul Hickey

It is said that what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas. But it would be a dereliction of duties for a golf writer to keep the inside scoop from you. To keep Shadow Creek in the shadows would be a crime. A crime worse than anything I saw happen at The Bellagio last week. It’s fair to say that up until very recently, Las Vegas would have been the last place on earth you’d see me travelling to in search of great golf. Desert-area courses in Arizona and California never appealed to me.

2 months ago | nooffseason.com | Paul Hickey

“Before I found NoOffseason.com, I kept buying packs to rip. I started listening and just didn't get it through my head the addiction of ripping and being on apps like whatnot. Got in over my head and spent way to much on auctions for specific cards, which I will be lucky to get $.75 on the $1. My spouse and I also weren't on the same page with this hobby so it obviously didn't go well. I let the ripping and auction addiction put my home life at risk.