Pulling into the parking lot of the Moss Hill Golf Club in Versailles, Kentucky, I really had no idea what to expect. All I knew from some cursory Internet research was that the course was relatively short at 6,142 from the back tees. It was a cool late afternoon in April, in which we’d received…
I love my home course. It’s a nearly 100 year-old parkland layout, replete with narrow, tree-lined fairways, deceivingly subtle elevation changes, and sloping, postage stamp greens. It’s our only local municipal course that lies inside our city’s “inner loop,” mere minutes from downtown and less than a mile (as the crow flies) from the University…
Between welcoming a new son, a long, cold winter, and an exceptionally wet spring, I’ve managed to get out for a 18 golf games this year, including ten 9-hole rounds. Almost all of the 9-hole rounds were walked, which is part of my renewed emphasis on my physical fitness and enjoyment of the entire golf…
Everyone has played one of those golf courses. You know, the place where the pickup trucks outnumber the sedans in the parking lot 3-to-1 or better. Where golf cleats are optional, jeans are welcomed, tank-tops are abundant, and just having fun is the order of the day. A place where a round is not so…
In a perfect world, we would all play golf completely by the Rules. All of them. All the time. Every time. However, in my experience, outside of tournament play, very rarely do I find that golfers follow every rule, every time, myself included. I don’t throw this generalization out for consumption to impugn the integrity…