Category
Winter Golf
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12.06.07Course ClosedThough the fairways still stretch out green and lovely, they are lined by the browns and grays of leafless trees, a battalion of camouflaged soldiers standing guard over emptied corridors. The starter’s shack stands like a lone sentinel, a watch tower overlooking the first tee, devoid of players and activity. A small sandwich board proclaims the only law of the land that matters: Golf Course Closed for the Season. Local players have scattered like refugees. The heartiest have marched across town to the remaining municipal golf course, to wage battle there against the winter weather. Some have relinquished ...
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11.26.07Slapping It Around in a Three Club TournamentWhile the annual Skins game kept a foursome of pro golfers occupied this holiday weekend in sunny California, a pack of golf crazy New Englanders teed off in somewhat less benign weather conditions. About the only thing the two tournaments had in common was that each played host to a little levity with a hockey stick. The pros might have been a little miffed about teeing off in between refrigerators, but we teed off feeling like we were in one. The mercury hovered right around 22 degrees when we teed it up and hovered there for a few holes ...
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11.12.07It’s Hardly Winter Golf (Yet)Say "fall" to New England golfers and you conjure up visions of sunny, temperate days and uncrowded fairways set against a picturesque background of colorful leaves. Either that or you'll send us scrambling toward the first tee in all out panic, as in it-won't-be-golf-weather-forever-so-get-your-rounds-in-NOW. At this time of the year it is imperative to keep a close watch on meteorological conditions and take spur of the moment, decisive action in order to take advantage of optimum playing conditions. Despite the fact that golfers living south of us assume our courses are closed for the winter, many of us still ...
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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 ...
