I played another round with my old man yesterday, and he did something entirely uncharacteristic. He succumbed to hitting a driver off the tee on a par 3 — that plays 192-yards. Well, you just knew he was going to catch a lot of razzing from me, but that didn’t seem to bother him. Nor [...]
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Making Three
Jul 6
My First Eagle
Jun 1
It only took 22 years, but yesterday on the 12th hole at Sun Valley CC in Reheboth MA, I shot a three on a relatively short par 5. For low handicappers (<10), this plays as the course’s number one handicap hole when it is played as a par 4. For the rest of us weekend [...]
Mancation
May 23
I love the buzzword, although for me it is technically inaccurate. I am taking a couple of weeks off — a much needed break from the grind — for what I like to call Fourteen Sundays of Solitude. No plans, no agenda, just simple objectives that do not have to necessarily be obtained. And, I [...]
It’s an Old Man’s Game
Apr 25
Golf season is back, and I just had to go dig up this web page I wrote back in the summer of 2005. Plays a backgroud MIDI file, so view it using Internet Explorer if you choose to get the right feeling for the theme of the writing. Enjoy!
April Fool’s Day
Apr 1
I was participating in a teleconference call today with a prospective vendor from Minneapolis, where they got hit by snow throughout their morning commute. My boss chuckled thinking it was an April Fool’s Day joke, but he brought up a past horrific snow storm in New England that occurred on April 1, 1997. As he [...]
