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Tiger Woods - Boot Camp

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

By now everyone is, or should be, aware of Tiger spending four days practicing at being in the Army Special Forces. His dad was Special Forces and must have told Tiger a lot of War stories when he was a small child, as this was the driving force in Tiger’s desire to experience the reality […]

Winter Golf

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Here I am in Syracuse, New York wondering how soon I will be able to get back on the links. It has been a long winter with over 150 inches of snow and very few thaw days. In the past two weeks everything has been looking up as the daily temperature was near 40 degrees […]

Golf - Buyer Beware

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

I believe it was in the movie Network where one the characters opened a window and screamed “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.” This is how I felt last week when I received the latest mailing from the PGA TOUR PARTNERS CLUB, but I am getting ahead of […]

Tiger Woods Golf

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Tiger Woods has said he will not play in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am because the greens are too bumpy and it takes him weeks to trust his putter again after playing the course.
It seems to me that Tiger is sounding like a duffer. Are the greens really bumpy by design? Or is the cause of […]

Golf Etiquette

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

There are many things about golf that don’t make a lot of sense and the one that comes to my mind faster than any other is the yelling of “Fore” when you have hit a bad shot and there is a danger of the ball hitting someone else on the course. Why “Fore”? I know […]

Golf And Business

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

Put on your golf shoes and get into the swing of things.

Everyone knows business and golf have become inextricably linked. But some entrepreneurs out there shanking, slicing and signing up clients could use a few lessons to bring their business games up to par. We know of one entrepreneur, for instance, who signed up for […]

Golf Clubs

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

The Rules of Golf permit us to carry 14 clubs–all of our own choosing, incidentally. So why do we decide to carry some that are disinclined to cooperate in our perpetual bid to play better?

The long iron, for instance. “The only reason to carry a 1-iron,” says Tim Mahoney, a teaching professional with the Golf […]