I’m surprised and delighted, and the facts are the facts: My partner, Charles Williams and I were the defending “Team Champions,” which means we won the “Team Championship” tournament at Stonetree. (This picture is from our 2007 win. New photo to come in a future post.)
Yesterday, Sunday, May 4th, 2008, we successfully defended our title [...]

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One of my favorite and most fundamental golf quotes is: “You don’t play golf to relax. You have to relax to play golf.”
You might think I’d have this in my bones by now, but yesterday despite the opportunity to play one of the most beautiful golf courses in the Bay Area—the Ocean Course at the [...]

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Well, after playing 13 really good holes last week, this week, I progressed in style by shooting 17 really good holes. I think I’d have to call them the best 17 of my life!
Last Saturday, at Rooster Run, I was only 7 over par after 17 holes before a triple bogie blow up on the [...]

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I teed it up Sunday in the “Stonetree Masters,” a local individual stroke play tournament which attracted about 50 members of the Stonetree Players Club. Bottom line, I came in 3rd in the Net Division with a 91, net 70.
What was most encouraging to me was that I played exceptionally well on the first 13 [...]

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I got to play Peacock Gap on a beautiful afternoon yesterday and played very inconsistently. As far as score goes, a 98 on that course pretty much sucks in my book; but, you know what? I am clearer than ever before about what went wrong, and that’s a great step in the right direction toward [...]

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My back is back to a healthy state and my game seems to be on the mend as well. I just got back from The Golf Club at Terra Lago near Palm Springs last Wednesday night where I attended an Extraordinary Golf playing school called “The Art of Scoring” with Fred Shoemaker and associates. Fred, [...]

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It’s so easy to let the little, incremental successes get away. I’m learning that it’s important to make the effort to celebrate them and that true success doesn’t necessarily look like big dramatic breakthroughs. Somehow, it’s so much easier to focus of some swing mechanic flaw or something else that won’t really help. So, I’m [...]

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