Which ESPN writer can you follow on Twitter – the one who wrote about Justin Timberlakes golf birdie?”
Sobel’s On Twitter Want to know what ESPN.com’s Jason Sobel is up to? Sign up to track him on Twitter. Follow him • Follow ESPN Golf on Twitter Of course. A: Then you know what it’s like. I’m comfortable with that handicap. That handicap for me travels well. It gives me a couple of shots and forces me to play good golf all the time. For somebody like me, I don’t get to work on my game as much. I don’t have a lot of time to just go to the range and hit balls. The times that I get on the golf course, it’s like, ‘Well, I’ve got a day off, I should go play.’ That’s the most fun is actually getting to go play. But if I had time, I could become a range rat, easily. I could sit out there for hours and just chip and putt and work on everything. Q: What kind of competition are you usually playing against? Are you getting strokes or giving ’em? A: One of my buddies at Lakeside, he’s actually a plus-1, so I’m getting shots. But then sometimes I’ll play in groups where one of my other buddies — a
Jason Sobel is a golf columnist and blogger for ESPN.com. He grew up in Islip, N.Y., attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and wrote for newspapers including Newsday and The Boston Globe. He was also a member of the Brandeis golf team during his junior year — not for his on-course skills but because he owned a car and didn’t mind driving teammates to practice ——————- The phone rings, and the voice on the other end sounds eminently familiar yet not altogether unmistakable. Perhaps that’s because despite six Grammy awards and two Emmys, Justin Timberlake seems like any other golf-crazed everyman who might round out your foursome on a Sunday morning. Get him talking, in fact, and it appears a sense of relief washes over JT when speaking about the game. In these conversations, there is no deflecting gossip from the tabloids nor any need to plug his latest vehicle. Truth is, his passion for golf is so frenzied, you get the
