I have to admit, I had real fun yesterday just hitting balls and getting a feel for my swing (again). It’s funny how elusive that feel can be sometimes. It’s as if my swing has the ability to go into hibernation. This quote helped inspire me: “I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning [...]

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In Thomas Moore’s Afterword to the delightful new book, Golf’s Three Noble Truths: The Fine Art of Playing Awake, the renowned author offers this uplifting reminder: “The next time you play golf, remember that a round of golf is a practice run around life’s opportunities and hazards. Enjoy the game, but not unconsciously. Know that [...]

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This little motto (the headline) has been with me for some time and never has it been more true than when my partner, Charles Williams and I discovered that we had ham-and-egged our way to victory in the two-man, best ball “Team Championship” at Stonetree Golf Club. We scored a net 65 and won by [...]

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I was contemplating the paradox of “the challenges of ease” (for example, how difficult it seems to be to putt on the course in the same relaxed manner that I putt on the practice green) when this gem of a quote came along (thanks to David C. Wood): “Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A [...]

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Thanks to a friend for sending this today: God, What is my fascination with this game? Is it the outdoors — the green fairways, the blue skies, the lakes and trees, the feel of the breeze across my face? Is it the friends with whom I play — their companionship, their encouragement, the conversation between [...]

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“That was the soul of golf, the thing that made it the wonderful pursuit it was — that speculativeness, that not knowing where the dickens your ball was going when you hit it, that eternal hoping for the best, that never-failing chanciness. It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive…” — P.G. Wodehouse, “The [...]

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“The least thing upsets him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadow.” — P.G. Wodehouse

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