This post follows up on last fall’s “Do you remember your first par?” Do you remember your first birdie? I don’t but I’ll always remember my son’s. Carter, 7, will likely remember it, too. For several years, I’ve been taking him to a local metropark (muni) par 3 course where every hole is under 100 yards. That course is perfect yardage-wise to start out young golfers, but its design is flawed. In between the tees and greens is thick rough, no fairways. There is no roll on any shot, a fact that makes the game tougher for the young-ins. I finally delivered ... full post »

Funny how golf is. Just last week I admitted to the world (well, cyberspace, anyway) that I whiffed on a shot. Today, a brand new grip I’ve been experimenting with delivered the best round of my life. A 77 at Tyrone Hills Golf Course, a 6,404-yard course in Fenton, MI, with a moderate slope of 125, is nothing to jump up and down about. I’m more thrilled that I shot a one-under-par 35 on the front nine, my final nine of the day. I’ve never seen red numbers before, only sniffed it a handful of times. Can’t even get there on ... full post »