How I (affordably) shaved ~18 strokes off my average score in 18 months (part 1) Full Disclosure: I am not a PGA pro, in fact I’m not a certified golf instructor of any kind. If you can get past those things and are curious about a few of the key tenets of my successful 18 […]
Practice
What this trip needs is more golf!!!
Friday morning, as we left Hamilton Farm on our way to Maryland, a completely random glance up from my keyboard toward the side of the road revealed “USGA Golf Museum.” As always we were pressed for time (less for the commute to Maryland and more based on our need to get caught up on some […]
Snow Day!!! 5 Things I Learned Playing in the Snow…
I’ve been trying to play in some adverse weather for the past few weeks, to no avail. Every time I’ve planned to play in foul conditions, I’ve gone out and it’s been a beautiful (or at least fairly nice) day. Last night’s weather forecast looked promising… So I went for it again. And today, mother […]
A birdie, a hosel, and a mulligan walk into a bar…
Note: this was supposed to be posted last fall… no idea how it didn’t happen. In any event, these things didn’t just happen, but none of my conclusions have changed, so I’m going to post it anyway 🙂 Sometimes Golf is a funny game. Not funny “haha” but funny “what the blank just happened.” Yesterday […]
The Best Kind of Eagle…
I got off work a little early today so I went to the neighborhood driving range/par 3 course to get a few swings in. I bought a small bucket and 9 holes of golf and headed to the range. And then… this happened… Ironically, if I hadn’t paid for the round ahead of time, I […]
Practice 9 – AKA first round of the year…
I got out for the first time (other than the range) Thursday evening after work. I was only able to get in 9 holes, and the 10th green was literally a sheet of ice, so I really only played 8+ holes, but it was still great to get back out on the course. Recently I […]
Shots… lots of shots…
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller The weather finally relented a bit this week. Well… the later half of this week that is, on Tuesday Boise looked like this: In the “what-a-difference-a-day-makes” category, this was today: Closed putting green notwithstanding, it […]