Now that the daily deluge of Tiger Woods related babble has slowed to a steady drip, I figure it’s time to weigh in with a few select observations. Many have faulted Tiger for failing to live up to his responsibilities as a role model and his almost complete lack of candor as events unfolded. Others [...]
December 3, 2009
To the long list of hardships endured by inhabitants of the African continent, you can now add the difficulty of finding errant tee shots off of the 1,400 foot high tee box at Legend Golf & Safari Resort in South Africa. That’s right, it’s about a quarter mile of vertical drop and over 600 yards [...]
December 1, 2009
Fred Astaire was a dancer and a golfer, but perhaps no one before or since has blended the two disciplines as seamlessly as the master does in this clip. It’s a good thing soft spikes weren’t around yet, because this routine just wouldn’t be the same. Looks to be from the 1930’s or ’40s but [...]
November 22, 2009
I can only describe my reaction as sheer horror, upon discovering that the Golf Gardens mini-golf course in Avalon on Catalina Island was closed for construction in May 2009. This was my first trip back to the Southern California island locale in a number of years, and a quick loop around this unique and historic [...]
November 16, 2009
I came across this pair of brass (golf) ball molds a few weeks ago on eBay and thought they were pretty cool: Some guy in PA was selling them and said they were probably 50-75 years old and solid brass in excellent condition. I think they went for about $70, which seems a bit steep for [...]
January 30, 2010