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HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Walter Iman

It’s summertime and time to head for “cooler pastures” or golf courses, as the case may be.  TD and buddy Timmy are heading back across the pond to be joined...

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Walter Iman

It’s summertime and time to head for “cooler pastures” or golf courses, as the case may be.  TD and buddy Timmy are heading back across the pond to be joined...

TD CHOSEN TO CARRY COLUMBIA GOLF FOUNDATION’S TORCH—WELL, CAP—TO THE HOME OF GOLF

TD CHOSEN TO CARRY COLUMBIA GOLF FOUNDATION’S T...

Walter Iman

Much as the Olympic Torch is ferried around the world each quadrennium, friend Hardeep—recognizing that TD was once again taking his particular brand of duffing to the Mother Country—prevailed upon...

TD CHOSEN TO CARRY COLUMBIA GOLF FOUNDATION’S T...

Walter Iman

Much as the Olympic Torch is ferried around the world each quadrennium, friend Hardeep—recognizing that TD was once again taking his particular brand of duffing to the Mother Country—prevailed upon...

ACT TWO – SEEN FOUR

ACT TWO – SEEN FOUR

Walter Iman

Freshly home (does that even make sense? – freshly home – oh well) from a somewhat truncated trip to Ireland, the old TD was met by not one, but two...

ACT TWO – SEEN FOUR

Walter Iman

Freshly home (does that even make sense? – freshly home – oh well) from a somewhat truncated trip to Ireland, the old TD was met by not one, but two...

GET THE MASSAGE?      BRUCHLANNLIR.IE TD’S HOME IN IRELAND

GET THE MASSAGE? BRUCHLANNLIR.IE TD’S HOME...

Walter Iman

TD & KATHERINE, MASSEUSE EXTRODINAIRE *For the past two years, when the TD has come over to Ireland, he seemingly has suffered at the hands of some sort of malady. ...

GET THE MASSAGE? BRUCHLANNLIR.IE TD’S HOME...

Walter Iman

TD & KATHERINE, MASSEUSE EXTRODINAIRE *For the past two years, when the TD has come over to Ireland, he seemingly has suffered at the hands of some sort of malady. ...

THE BIG THREE, AND NO IT’S NOT POTSDAM

THE BIG THREE, AND NO IT’S NOT POTSDAM

Walter Iman

Well into their Thursday Stableford Round at Carne, Greg noticed that this threesome was made of the three past winners of that competition:  Greg – 2023, TD – 2024 and...

THE BIG THREE, AND NO IT’S NOT POTSDAM

Walter Iman

Well into their Thursday Stableford Round at Carne, Greg noticed that this threesome was made of the three past winners of that competition:  Greg – 2023, TD – 2024 and...

WILL THIS GUY BE THE NEXT IRISHMAN ON THE PGA TOUR?

WILL THIS GUY BE THE NEXT IRISHMAN ON THE PGA T...

Walter Iman

Well, he seems to think so and, to that, TD can only say “godspeed”.  He goes by the name “Studley” (not his given name, which has been withheld to protect...

WILL THIS GUY BE THE NEXT IRISHMAN ON THE PGA T...

Walter Iman

Well, he seems to think so and, to that, TD can only say “godspeed”.  He goes by the name “Studley” (not his given name, which has been withheld to protect...

Duffer Update

THE TRAVELING DUFFER KEEPS ON "DUFFING" TOWARD 2026 with E-Commerce

Now in its sixth year, the Traveling Duffer (TD) website and blog, once again reinvents itself as not only a historical account of years of hope for the aging, but also as a site where like-minded old (and maybe even a few young) people can learn not only about quality links golf offerings, but also experience new signs of toward life lessons...or something like that.  

TD started posting just after a trip to The Presidents Cup in Melbourne, Australia in 2019.  Covid was knocking at The World's door and Australia was on fire.  Yet, the TD felt there was a brighter story to be told.  Now, some 200 blog posts and (maybe) tens of thousands of view later, the TD site is taking on a new look, a new angle, a new life, as everyone needs to reinvent themselves to allay stagnation...and possible deportation.    

Going forward, you'll be able to wear the TD close to your head and heart with a significant array of apparel, travel suggestions, hacks, facks and quacks in a medium which only an aging duffer can conjure.  

TD began his golf travel experiences in the late 1980's with a group of already aging golfers, many who have gone to that great driving range in the sky.  He prided himself as someone who could hang these serious duffers while maintaining his youthful stature in the group.  Today, he is one of the older statesmen of a group which, even with substantial attrition, has grown to nearly 50 golfers.  That's how popular duffing actually is.  

Perpetuating an image built out of the right to play  mediocre golf in significant locations around the world seems to be  the ongoing  charge of The Traveling Duffer.  Age and mediocrity, levity and now increasing brevity, are all soldiers in a battle being fought within a very tough sport and playing thousands of rounds with hundreds of new and old friends is the true gift of a full (golfing) life.                                 

"... right at the end we'll put a flat piece with a flag to give you xxxxing hope"

                                                                                                                            Robin Williams