The Modern Gentleman's Blog

This weekend marked the beginning of SF Opera’s 90th season, which kicked off with Giuseppe Verdi’s classic, Rigoletto. (If you’re not an opera fan, it’s the one that goes like this.) We got down to opening night to see what sort of attire a black tie affair warrants these days. And little surprise, the tux is [...]

Maybe you were one of the people making pointed “Thunder Thighs” jokes while watching the track cycling events. Turns out, this is no laughing matter. In fact, shopping for pants is a big problem for those bikers who lug around barrel-sized quads. Greg Bishop, of the NY Times, writes: “This often leads, of course, to [...]

DC Shoes Co-founder and rally car driver Ken Block takes to the streets of SF in the fifth installment of his popular Gymkhana video series. The whole 10 minutes are worth watching, but we were particularly excited to see our own neighborhood (from California Street to the piers) from about 2:00–3:30. We will always have a soft [...]

Casey Martin last made a US Open appearance in 1998, right here at the Olympic Club. In the years since then, Martin won a widely heralded Supreme Court case against the PGA Tour, and took a job as golf coach at the University of Oregon. But Martin wasn’t the only Duck on the green Wednesday morning. [...]

There are a lot of names floating around the US Open today — Woods, Mickelson, defending champ Rory McIlroy, and the youngest competitor the Open has ever seen, Andy Zhang (14!). The guy we’re excited to see is Bill Haas. He’s always one of the best-looking guys on the course, and it may have something [...]

We were perusing this fresh run-down on Matt Cain‘s perfect game, when we found this item, buried deep in the AP story: “Cain’s day had already been a success. He was granted permission from general manager Brian Sabean to hit one drive into McCovey Cove alongside U.S. Open golfer Dustin Johnson before the game to [...]

San Francisco’s Olympic Club hosts the US Open this week, and if history is any indication, it’s going to be an unpredictable and extremely difficult course for the contestants. Forbes magazine notes, “The U.S. Open has been contested at The Olympic Club 4 times previously (1955, 1966, 1987, 1998), and only 4 golfers total across those 4 tournaments finished the tournament [...]

One of the pleasant surprises with Wingtip has been the extent to which luxury brands want to get the attention of our busy membership. It started with Sonos. They already make a phenomenal product, receive rave reviews from customers, and while not sold everywhere, they are not lacking for distribution (we sell their line only [...]

Most of my leisurely reading these days comes from blogs I subscribe to in my Google Reader. The more blogs I read, the more I see certain conventions and memes take off. Some stay; some fizzle. Lately, everyone seems to be designing "infographics" — the old placeholder used by USA Today on every front page [...]

My grandmother, still kicking at 99 years young, has been an avid golfer all her life. I can remember playing a round with her when she was in her mid-70s. And for as long as I could read, there has been an old burgundy banner hanging in her kitchen from a visit to Scotland decades [...]