by Larry Gavrich
It seems golf is coming back home to this part of Europe. At an exhibition of paintings by a 17th Century Dutch artist a few years ago, I noted one painting that displayed people on a frozen river playing something called "colf" with sticks and balls.
Larry Gavrich

by Chuck Collet
I'm sure there are some wonderful golf courses in Denmark, as there are in almost every corner of the world even in places like Dubai in the desert. I would however encourage north american golfers to spend their golf dollars on "American" courses for the next while, at least until the economy picks up. Golf courses all over the United States are having a tough go of it right now with the price of gas, the low dollar, and folks trying to conserve their hard earned dollars for higher gas prices, groceries, and we won't even talk about the "sub prime" fiasco. I'm a Canadian and although we are impacted by the economic problems in the United States, it hasn't hit us up here in any way as it has down south of the border. Some will say, "just a minute here, we may be in financial but less people golfing forces golf courses to lower their green fees which is good for us isn't it". This can be a two edged sword as many golf courses may simply go out of business, or even more of them will have to rezone and turn into sprawling "old duck" communities. Anyway, "we" enjoy travelling south to do most of our golfing and we find that, what may seem like high green fees to some in the U.S.A. are great deals when compared to courses of the same quality up here. So everybody, think about helping out your own areas' golf courses, or keep your travel dollars in your own country. Supporting your own golf communities is one way to do your bit to improve the economy and get a great country out of it's financial woes. Chuck Collet, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia.

by Tom Gosling
A round of golf is under four hours in Denmark because everyone walks.
The way golf is supposed to be