Another month has come and gone here at One Bearded Golfer, and yet another round of poll question results are in. The March Question of the Month asked what do you practice to improve your golf game? The results are staggeringly politically correct. A full 78% percent of respondents dutifully submitted that they really work…
The University of Kentucky defeated Michigan tonight in a classic of an Elite Eight contest to earn a trip to Dallas and next weekend’s Final Four. So, for those of us in the Bluegrass State, it looks like the earnest start of the golf season will have to wait one more week.
Wednesday was a great day on the practice range. Everything clicked and my swing found its slot. My legs were strong and my arms and wrists were relaxed. My four golf lessons culled together and culminated to produce a tension-free, repeating golf swing. I wanted to hit every club in my bag, because even the 3-iron…
In a rare stroke of simplicity, the Rules of Golf begin with an elegant straightforwardness elusive to the rest of the text. Honestly, the Rules begin very mildly with Rule 1, but only build in complexity. Rule 1-1 decrees: “The Game of Golf consists of playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground…
After three weeks away from the practice range, including a week-long golfing vacation, I headed back to Mike for my fourth golf lesson. My swing had held up okay in Hilton Head, but I knew intuitively that my fundamentals had deteriorated since my last real practice session. One of my playing partners during the last…
After the soft opening to the golf season in the South Carolina Lowcountry, I finally opened the 2014 golf season in Lexington on Wednesday at Lakeside Golf Course. Since John Mark was heading in from Louisville, I hoped to meet him at the University Club of Kentucky to wrangle with the Wildcat Course for the…
For this year’s Hilton Head adventure, the Wife and I stayed at the Marriott Surf Watch on the Island. The Surf Watch is a Marriott Vacation Club property. I have no idea what being a member of Marriott Vacation Club entitles one to or what it costs, but if I was, based on our stay…
My round on the Robert Trent Jones (“RTJ”) Course at Palmetto Dunes made me wish I’d had two weeks of vacation to spend on Hilton Head instead of just one. No, not because the course was that spectacular, though it was great. It absolutely was a beautiful course in pristine condition for being so early in…
The best golf I played of the entire week on Hilton Head was, by no coincidence, on the easiest golf course I played all week. My round at Oyster Reef Golf Club was my last lone wolf round for the week, and played on what proved to be the final day of horrendous weather. It…
I actually took my third golf lesson before leaving for Hilton Head, but completing my workload before bailing out-of-town prevented me from getting a column about it posted. The third lesson built upon the first two of course, and luckily didn’t leave me completely helpless once I made it to the golf courses down South.…
Admittedly, being the course that follows getting to play Harbour Town as the only golfer on the course is a tall ask and a bit unfair. Nonetheless, I was really looking forward to playing Country Club of Hilton Head (“CCHH”). That was until the weather report came true. It was 41 degrees and raining when…
The Wife and I like to travel, mainly just to get away from the daily grind or see something new. We rarely go any place too exotic or stay at a hotel that is over-the-top luxurious. Typical middle-class stuff. If someone offered to valet park our Toyota Camry, I’d probably laugh so hard the poor…
On this fourth trip to Hilton Head Island, I finally played Harbour Town Golf Links. Since The Wife and I began planning this year’s trip last fall, I looked forward to playing the epochal Sea Pines plantation course and crossing it off the Golf Bucket List. It is a course every golfer has heard of,…
Day two of this year’s Hilton Head experience was vastly different from Day One, as the temperature plummeted overnight, producing a high temperature Tuesday only in the low 40’s. The polar vortex had picked up our scent as we’d fled Kentucky, and followed us to the Lowcountry. Undeterred by the elements, The Wife dropped…
After an extended winter of miserable weather in Central Kentucky, the Wife and I finally escaped to warm, friendly Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for a much needed vacation. We were driving south as four to six inches of freezing rain and snow were falling in Lexington. I could barely get sleep in our beautiful…
Last month, Brian over at All About Golf posed a thought-provoking column about what and how to practice to improve your golf game. He concluded the post by asking readers whether they focus on developing their strengths or fixing their weaknesses on the golf course. I know that if I truly want to improve, it…
The results are in for February’s Question of the Month: What is your cold tolerance for golf? The people have spoken and the readers of this blog are decidedly a hearty group of brave souls and golf addicted fiends. Or, they all can’t stand their wives (or husbands) and have to hide on the links. …