Archives for: February 2011
Feb
26
Let us be honest...there are no little guys of clubmaking that sponsor professional golfers. Certain companies might choose to spend their marketing dollars in specific ways that do not include pro tour sponsorships, but there are no little guys anymore.… more »
Feb
24
Some have suggested (I'll not release names!) that Wednesday at the match play is the single greatest day in golf. For many, this stems from college basketball experiences over the course of the first two days of the NC2A tourney. What's missing from thi… more »
Feb
21
Bubba Watson stuck me with the check this week. I had just returned from a self-imposed "Bubbation." The pink shafted-swinger had let me down 2-3 weeks in a row, so I benched him just before San Diego (remember how that turned out? He won.) After Dustin… more »
Feb
18
When I need two hands to count the number of tours in action, it's almost golf season. This week, the Euro and Asian tours dispute a tournament in India (that's a two-for-one, boys.) The LPGA is in Thailand and the Euro Ladies are in New Zealand. The PGA… more »
Feb
16
Golf gear I'm looking forward to testing in 2011: Starter Coin, Nike and Fairway and Greene
1 feedback »The northern golfer spends an off-season collecting tips, equipment, apparel and other golfing elements, carrying forth the inextinguishable hope that any or all of these will assist her/him in improving his/her game toward glorious heights (or depths.)… more »
Feb
14
D.A. Points? Tom Gillis? Spencer Levin? Steve Marino for 71 holes? That is the nature of the principal Pro-Am week on the PGA Tour...it wreaks havoc with your selections. Case in point, even though I had Gillis, I imagined that he would struggle on Sunda… more »
Feb
09
Nothing like having your regular Monday column pushed back two days by circumstance. I wish I could recall what the circumstance was, but you wouldn't care, so it wouldn't matter.
Nothing like swapping out a C block player for another guy, having your… more »
Feb
05
In a nutshell, I'm a high school teacher with two extra duties: girls golf coach in the Spring and boys golf coach in the Fall (that is, in addition to chaperoning exchanges to Costa Rica and Spain.) I run a golfing website in western New York, more a l… more »
Feb
02
I'm sitting in a railway station, got a ticket for my ... no, wait, that was Paul Simon. I'm sitting in my room of dreams, snow falling outside, wind blowing and grass hibernating, thinking of the golfing season. I've made my picks for Fantasy Golf this… more »
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