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Park Mammoth Sojourn
Is there a special golf course, a personal favorite that perhaps only makes sense to you why? Maybe it’s not a championship track like Pinehurst or Sawgrass, but a “local muni” or where you learned the game, that when thought of brings back a flood of fond memories. When I think back of all the courses I have played in 50 plus years of golf, Cave Valley at Park Mammoth is that course. It was around fifty years ago, summer of 1970, when I discovered this little “gem’ located in the rural area of south central Kentucky near Mammoth Cave National Park. At that time, Park Mammoth, as it was…
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Leuk the Duck
It was “by chance” that I was watching the 2014 Frys.com Open when I first heard about Jarrod Lyle and his battle with leukemia. You could not hear his story and not be moved to want to help in some small way, see for yourself, Lyle’s story. In July 2017, Lyle began treatment for another recurrence of the leukemia, but a year later decided to end treatment and begin palliative care. He died on 8 August 2018, less than two weeks before his 37th birthday Having been diagnosed with cancer three times throughout his life, Jarrod understood the hardship that young people and their families face when battling this disease. Through his…
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Practicing at home
We have all heard the adage “practice makes perfect”, and as much as I wanted to, I always found it difficult to get into a regular practice routine. Time and time again other things would cut into my planned sessions. Perhaps, because the sessions were focused on a particular area of the game instead of just hitting balls, there never was enough time to pack the gear, drive to the range, warm up, go through practice drills, and return home again. Therefore, twice weekly (Mondays & Thursdays) became once weekly, then twice monthly turning into once monthly and in the end, whenever it happened. Needless to say, although still being…
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Return to the Game
When asked “How long have you been playing golf?”, my initial response is over 50 years. However, depending on where the conversation goes, the backstory could cover taking lesson from L. B. Floyd (Raymond’s father); the journey from hitting golf balls toward the hole and playing golf at a plus three; time spent as a golf rep and as GM for a small golf startup company; burnout and 15 years totally away from the game; the rediscovery of the golf as the “grand ole game”. With all of that being said, if it was not for my grandson seeing a picture of a Maxfli Demo Day and asking “Who’s that?”,…
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Golf Courses never more
In the late 1980s, golf was surging, and the National Golf Foundation, NGF, encouraged the industry to build a course a day for 10 years. Over a 20-year period up until the early 2000s, more than 4,000 new golf courses were built. Currently, there are more golf courses in the United States than anywhere else, over 14,000 totaling approximately 2 million acres of green space. However, that being said, the number of golfers and rounds played began to decline in the 2000s. Courses began closing in the Great Recession and the trend accelerated so fast that more than 400 courses went defunct in 2016 and 2017, according to the NGF.…
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