John Carroll

February 26, 2008 | Daily Report Online

A chance meeting between Alston Bird partner William "Mitch" R. Mitchelson Jr. and LPGA Tour star Natalie Gulbis led to a business relationship and a friendship.Mitchelson, 47, and his wife, Lara, were introduced to Gulbis in the Eagle's Landing clubhouse after one of her rounds at the 2006 Atlanta Charity Championship in Stockbridge.

By John Carroll

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June 01, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Lawyer Scott A. Gordy is an avid golfer and has been a member of Highland Country Club in LaGrange since 1970. He lives down the street from the private club and plays golf there two or three times a week. "Highland Country Club could be my third office," said Gordy, 63. "I've seen the club come and go. We are back on track now.

By John Carroll

4 minute read

January 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

I surveyed more than 50 lawyers and golf leaders in Georgia by e-mail last week, inquiring about their 2009 New Year's resolutions. Read their responses below. Happy New Year ______________________"Golf: To get in better shape in order to be able to accommodate the swing improvements I'd like to make. Professional: To get better organized and focus on the type of cases that are most productive for my practice and each client.

By John Carroll

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November 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Today, Americans go to the polls to elect the next president of the United States. Last week, I played golf on a golf course that was built exclusively for a U.S. president-Franklin D. Roosevelt.Roosevelt Memorial Golf Course is a cozy nine-hole layout in Warm Springs, a bucolic town in Meriwether County that Roosevelt discovered in 1924.

By John Carroll

5 minute read

April 27, 2010 | Daily Report Online

I've been where Tiger Woods has been. So has Bobby Jones. I've felt the pain, anger and anguish. I've experienced the frustration, embarrassment and regret. Yes, I have a confession to make. Like Woods, I too have thrown golf clubs and used profanity on the golf course. And so did Jones, Atlanta's pre-eminent amateur golfer who won the Grand Slam-all four majors in the same year-in 1930.

By John Carroll

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September 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

THE CLOCK WAS TICKING and I had to make a decision fast. My Labor Day weekend was hanging in the balance. Both choices were attractive: Golf at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., or college football in South Bend, Ind. My father had booked a tee time on the Ocean Course at the Ponte Vedra Inn Club, but my friend was offering me two tickets to the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame football game.

By John Carroll

6 minute read

November 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

The phone is ringing in Judge Gary E. Jackson's chambers. "I'll be right there," Jackson assures the caller, and then continues entertaining his guest. The guest is me. I have been in the Atlanta Municipal Court judge's office on Garnett Street for nearly 90 minutes. The judge is showing me his extensive and impressive Masters memorabilia collection.

By John Carroll

4 minute read

June 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

I come back to Bobby Jones Golf Course in Atlanta for the history, the memories and the record. The history hovers in the humid air, echoes off the proud oak trees and flows under the crooked bridges of Peachtree Creek. A famous Civil War battle was fought here in the summer of 1864. The Battle of Peachtree Creek was the first major attack by Maj.

By John Carroll

4 minute read

October 20, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By John Carroll

4 minute read

September 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

AS A JUNIOR GOLFER, Columbus attorney J. Madden Hatcher Jr. received lessons from the late Fred Haskins, the head golf professional at the Country Club of Columbus from 1922 to 1952. Hatcher, 69, remembers the post-World War II years of the late '40s, when Haskins conducted weekly golf clinics for youth. "I was 9 or 10 years old and my father was a member of the country club," recalled Hatcher, a lawyer with Bradley Hatcher.

By John Carroll

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