Archives for: July 2007
Jul
31
I think jeans and jean shorts are terrible for the golf course. Let me add to that cargo shorts. I saw some guys playing recently at an upscale course and they were all wearing rumpled cargo shorts that hung well below their knees. They looked like orpha… more »
Jul
30
How does one mix golf and a wife? Someone fill me in, please. Let me give you some background - I'll tell you a story that's as old as golf itself, but it just happened yesterday.
I'm the editor of GolfStyles Ohio, and our company hosted a Players Ser… more »
Jul
26
Yesterday, I played an interesting round of golf at a club owned by American Golf called Oakhurst Country Club south of Columbus. Two of the guys I played with hadn't been on a golf course for two years, and neither of them wanted a competitive, grinding… more »
Jul
20
Gary Player's pronouncement that perhaps 10 players in all the worldwide professional golf tours are using steroids is patented Gary Player garbage. He's looking for media attention, and I here I sit guilty of giving it to him, so I'm just as bad as he i… more »
Jul
20
At the risk of sounding like an ugly American, I'm getting sick of English people's sense of superiority. Here's where I'm coming from.
I was talking to my younger brother on Skype yesterday, and he lives in West Malvern, England. Though we both hail… more »
Jul
19
The British Open apparently strips back the veneer of my insecurities. I started watching it on the first day of play and it didn't take long before I started getting sick of listening to how awesome it is.
I don't know about you, but I don't like to… more »
Jul
17
Aren't Canada geese just lovely? The way they fly through the air in a V formation. The way the parade their goslings in a row from wherever they are to wherever they're going. Their gray, black and white markings with the distinctive chinstrap. Their an… more »
Jul
13
The Nationwide Tour's Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational at Ohio State University's newly renovated Scarlet Course (I'd like to see you cram more facts into a lead sentence than that) is in Columbus this week. It's the tour's first-ever invitati… more »
Jul
09
I've seen lots of wildlife on the golf course before. Just this year, I've seen wild turkeys, deer, fox, groundhogs, turkey buzzards, bald eagles, herons, Canada geese (of course) and many others I can't recall right now. For the most part, these animals… more »
Jul
09
I've done some writing for trade magazines over the years, and the more I hear about the practice of rolling greens, the more I like it.
Apparently, people completely abandoned it for about 50 years, then picked back up on it in the 1980s. Now, you s… more »
Jul
08
At 6:10 on July 8, I was sitting on my couch eating dinner with my six-year-old son as we watched the AT&T National's final round wind down. OK, so maybe you don't eat dinner in front of the TV. Go piss up a rope.
Anyway, one of the tournament's o… more »
Jul
02
After administering six of the eight GolfStyles Solstice Survival events, I have picked up on something. I'll get to it in a second.
We play three 18-hole rounds of stroke play in one day, and average just over four hours per round. For the third roun… more »
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