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Varner is far from the only professional golfer to lend his credibility to cocktails and spirits. Sweetens Cove, the smash-hit nine-holer in Tennessee, has a $200 bourbon named after it. Rather than a PGA Tour player, the Fishers Island Lemonade company invokes the eponymous New York club to sell its line of beverages, as well as alcoholic freezer pops.
I've sampled them - they strike a good balance, neither excessively sweet to hide the underlying vodka note nor too aggressively alcoholic-tasting.
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Cutwater, which makes a full line of spirits in addition to other canned concoctions, has PGA Tour player Harold Varner III as its ambassador for its Transfusions. Transfusions have managed to transcend the country club scene, thanks to multiple brands taking advantage of White Claw and other fizzy canned drinks that have exploded in popularity in recent years. Jude Invitational champion Abraham Ancer is also a co-founder of the Flecha Azul tequila company. Located near Beaufort, South Carolina, Chechessee Creek Club's Creek Tea consists of bourbon, lemonade and a splash of bitters, poured over ice - a great antidote for summer heat and humidity.Ģ021 WGC FedEx St. Open host The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. Another rum drink, a potent punch called the Fernando, is enjoyed by members and guests of 2022 U.S. Like Augusta Country Club and its Velvet Hammer, Cypress Point keeps mum as to the exact recipe - even Bob Hope couldn't coax it out of Solis - but those who have tried to recreate it agree it contains both light and dark rum, sour mix, soda water and a bit of powdered sugar. On the West Coast, Cypress Point Club has its own concoction, Sam's Special, named after longtime club manager Sam Solis, who formulated the drink in the 1930s. It's a gin drink with mint, lemon juice and simple syrup, made fizzy by the optional addition of club soda. At the National Golf Links of America and several other clubs in the Hamptons on Long Island, the popular choice is a Southside, which owes its name to the Prohibition-era smuggling activities of Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. Some of American golf's most prestigious clubs have cocktails to match. Ketel One, which was Arnold Palmer's longtime choice of vodka, unveiled a special-edition bottle honoring the King at the 2017 Arnold Palmer Invitational.
During a trip to Bermuda in 2017, canned Dark & Stormys were always close at hand, just as refreshing after a windy February round as I'd imagine they'd be on a scorcher in the summer. George's Hill in 2015, the golf was fun, the walk was invigorating and the dry, crisp cider in the bar afterward was the perfect cap to the experience. When my dad and I played the great British heathland course St. But it makes for a good story, and to the extent that the common social lubricant tends to facilitate storytelling, golf is as good a match as any activity.įor many golfers, a post-round drink is looked forward to as excitedly as the round itself, especially if that round turns sour early on. There actually aren't exactly 18 shots in a fifth going by the standard of 1.5 ounces per shot, it's closer to 17, and no one likes a stingy pour. It's a romantic, if potentially head-splitting notion, but it's untrue. There are 18 shots in a fifth of whiskey, you see, and the game's early practitioners simply nipped from the bottle on each tee and played until it was empty.
Historical player and course insights reflect data from the 2014-15 PGA season to present.Scots love to tell an apocryphal bit of drunk "history" around how 18 holes became the standard course length two and a half centuries ago at St. That’s higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -11.