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Competitive Golf

06.12.08

Virtually Certain: Golf is a Difficult Game Competitive Golf, Rules
For me, individual stroke play golf tournaments border on cruel and unusual punishment. At any given moment in a stroke play event, as a golfer, I face the unknown. Although I am fairly competent on the course, I am not what one would call a steady, down the middle player. Even when I am playing well, I never know when I might release a swing that's pushes me over the edge into the land of doubles and triples, or worse. I wish that I could bring the relaxed feeling I have during informal afternoon rounds and friendly matches to ...
05.19.08

Just a Thought About Golf and the Sexes Competitive Golf
Boy oh boy, all that hullabaloo a few months ago around here about a woman suing to play in what have traditionally been "men's only" golf tournaments... here it is well into the spring tournament season, and we haven't seen that particular golfer signed up for either of two possible co-ed tournaments. Sure makes one wonder why there had to be such a fuss. Continue Reading...
05.03.08

May Day is a Good Day to Play Competitive Golf, Golf and Friendship, Just golf
May Day. As a child, it was a day full of frolicking, fun and baskets of flowers. Historically, it is a day filled with traditions and symbols ranging from May poles, to May queens to May flowers – and even cows (yes, cows...). No where could I find reference to May Day traditions with regard to golfing but yesterday I hope I started a May Day tradition of my own: playing twenty seven holes of golf. I can think of no better way to celebrate the start of a season full of rebirth and ...
04.23.08

There’s No Place Like Home (to Play Golf) Competitive Golf, Dennis Pines Golf, Just golf
As impressed as I was with Augusta National, and as much as I whined about the gray and the gloom of our local spring weather when I arrived home from a quick, southern sojourn in early April, my disenchantment with my local golf opportunities was decidedly short lived. It was the heart of Master’s weekend when my plane touched down and Tiger was making a charge (a minor one, such as it was). Locally, it was the qualifying round of the Cape Cod Seagulls Fourball Championship, a usually grueling test of golf. While the PGA professionals ...
04.14.08

Not All The Golf Action Was In Augusta Competitive Golf, Golf and Family
My time in Atlanta was a mere four days but I enjoyed more sunshine and fresh air than I had in the last month and a half at home. Perfect weather combined with lots of golf, great company and dogwood and azaleas in full regalia. Truly heavenly. My get away was the perfect way to get a taste of spring, so illusive a season in my own neck of the woods. I couldn't have asked for anything better - except in terms of my golf game. Continue Reading...

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