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11.11.07And People Think We’re Crazy?These folks in Esotonia in the Baltics are apparently really, really crazy about golf. At least they are smart enough to come up with a separate set of rules for their winter golf. I guess the Royal and Ancient never considered to what extreme the seriously addicted would take the game.
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11.07.07Is That a REAL Indelible Index?There it is: in black and white with a dash of red and blue, a mass of digits and dates and scores. It is a tiny snippet, less than the size of a deck of cards, covered with ciphers, that reduces your entire golf season to a single, calculated figure. It’s your year-end handicap card. Many golfers lucky enough to live where year round golf weather is a given may not be aware of the seasonality of our handicap index up here in the north. Due to the change of seasons, most golf clubs north of ...
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07.08.07Survivor Dennis PinesI believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential." - Gerhard Richter The same could be said about every golfer. Sometimes it is the essential that guarantees our survival. There is nothing quite like enduring fifteen minutes in an emergency shelter on a golf course during a thunderstorm to makes you appreciate the sunny side of life. For five hours – that felt more like fifteen - my friend and I slogged our way around Dennis Pines Golf Course. During our determined march, not only did we experience a half dozen or ...
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04.17.07Pick Your PoisonTwo hours and so many minutes (at best) running 26.2 miles through puddles, from Hopkinton to the Back Bay, fighting a brutal, cold head wind wearing the barest of clothing... or... Somewhere around four hours, zig zagging five miles in Hyannisport through sleet, rain and wind, carrying fourteen sticks in a bag and wearing double layers of rain gear; ending up in almost the exact spot you started and hoping you get to do it again the next weekend.... It is so true: we each pick our own poison.
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04.12.07Weather Fit for SeagullsThis coming weekend golfers on Cape Cod will bare witness to one of the true rites of spring: The Seagulls Fourball Championship. This often grueling competition is hosted over two weekends every spring at the Hyannisport Club and is almost guaranteed to bring out the worst possible weather. The term “spring” is used loosely here. The calendar indicates the season is here, but ask any one who has played the Seagulls over the years and they’ll tell you otherwise. The chilly waters that surround Cape Cod and border the Hyannis Port Club itself bring in freezing winds ...
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