Thoughts on golf gear, fashion, travel, and food.
Let me tell me a story about how something so inconsequential, so incidental to the playing of golf can matter greatly to the golf course experience. Can a scorecard matter? Not what is written on the scorecard, not the information printed in ink or the scores scribbled in pencil, but the actual physical scorecard? Yes?…
I enjoy wearing sunglasses on the golf course. I don’t “need” them, in the sense of either I wear them or I don’t go outside during daylight hours, but I appreciate that they make life in the sun a bit more pleasant. I play a lot of late afternoon and twilight golf rounds, when the…
There’s something to be said for accepting certain truths about one’s self, in golf as in life. One of the essential components of developing my golf game, in addition to the lessons that have produced and honed the physical fundamentals of my swing, is realizing what works and what doesn’t before a shot is even…
As I’ve transitioned into my mid-to-late thirties, what is important to me on a golf trip, or a road trip of any kind, has changed. Comfort and intelligence have replaced expediency and cheapness as overriding principles of the getaway. Gone are the days of contentment with piling 8 un-showered guys into a car for 10…
My darling husband set out a great list of courses for you folks coming in to Lexington for what may be a combined football / golf trip / guys’ weekend. Here’s what I consider to be the real draw in Lexington – restaurants! Anywhere we go, I want to know the great places to eat.…
If you’re heading to Louisville for the PGA Championship this week, I’m sure there will be no shortage of official partners and sponsors asking for your patronage and your tourism dollars. There will be parties and all manner of bars and restaurants buzzing and hopping with tournament energy. Whether you’re rooting for your favorite professional…
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…
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…
We all know golf is a gentleman’s game, which is supposed to have the same rules and etiquette apply to the tour pro and the weekend hacker alike. The big time, big money world of PGA Tour professionals is dominated by men, young and old, who present themselves to fans (and sponsors) as as clean…
Two weeks into the new year, I have crossed one of my New Year’s Golf Resolutions off the list. Today, I bought my first pair of golf shoes in at least 8 years at an Edwin Watts clearance sale. What’s more, these are this golfer’s very first pair of spikeless golf shoes. Specifically, a pair…