The Back Nine comes at you and it is officially The Bob Week, so understand if I am short with you. I still love you (just trying to get the apologies out of the way early): 10. The Bob Dooley Invitational is Saturday and I encourage people to come …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five (May 5th)
The plan is that Greg Sankey, the commissioner of the conference that Just Means More, is going to walk out of a meeting in Destin at the end of the month with the new schedule plan for 2024’s SEC football season. We’ll see how it goes. Everyone I talk to …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (May 1st)
The Back Nine comes at you after a crazy weekend that – incredibly – included me hitting some really nice golf shots. Yes, it was an aberration. 10. The reason this was a crazy weekend for me was that I went to an anniversary party for Chris Harry and …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five (April 28th)
Now that the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft is complete and we know that Anthony Richardson is a Colt, we also know that where you are drafted matters … but not always. The higher you are picked, the more money you get in your first contract. Of course, the …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 24th)
The Back Nine comes at you after a busy weekend because we are inside three weeks until the 28th Bob Dooley Invitational. I didn’t sleep much. I have a problem. 10. While the Back Nine is always happy to talk about golf, we hardly ever talk about Gator golf and …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 17th)
The Back Nine comes at you after a week that was crazy for an old man like me. Quarterback Club, Spring Game, Stop Children’s Cancer Gala, golf course, baseball game. I was everywhere. 10. But we didn’t leave for the gala until we watched all of the gymnastics. There …
Read More »Dooley’s Grades (Florida Spring Game)
Pat Dooley grades the Gators after Thursday night’s spring game at the Swamp. Offense D First half: Well, if Gator fans showed up for this game to see if the offense is in good hands, the first half was not a convincer. Graham Mertz seemed to find himself late in …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 10th)
The Back Nine comes at you after a low-key weekend that hopefully for all of you included a great Easter Sunday. 10. Maybe we could get this more often, where The Masters is postponed because of weather and we get a full day of watching the best golf tournament …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five (April 7th)
I know there are people out there who get tired of me talking about The Masters. But it is my favorite week of the year. And not just because I won the media lottery and got to play it in 1996. What a year that was. The High Five tells …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine (April 3rd)
The Back Nine comes at you after an interesting weekend that included a little bit of everything (to quote the Dawes song). And now, it is Masters week. 10. I have to say that the most nervous I was all weekend was not standing over a three-foot putt or …
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