Keeping it in Play
Comments on what's going on in the industry.
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Gotcha Covered
Look at anyone’s golf bag and, chances are, one of the first things you will notice are the headcovers. Why is that? Could it be because they tell a lot about the golfer? Such as, how new the clubs are, brand or model being played, striker or hacker i.e. handicap level, and perhaps, if there is an obsessive-compulsive tendency. Today, every driver, fairway wood, hybrid and putters comes with a headcover. However, that was not always the case. In the early 1900s, when first introduced, headcovers were not designed to protect the heads but the shafts of the clubs from being damage cause by chips or dents in the wood…
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Bird’s eye view of changes at Park Mammoth GC
In the Fall of 2019 the golf course formerly known as Park Mammoth GC was placed on the auction block. As I stated in a prior post, there was a lot of speculation about what would happen to the old resort. Therefore, I am sure I was not the only one that was delighted to read in the local paper that the new owners “wanted to keep the course open, make some capital improvements and saw the potential draw of the location being within 10 miles of Mammoth Cave National Park. Over the course of the past 18 months or so, at lot has taken place at Park Mammoth Golf…
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Grown Man Cry
In the late sixties, while station in England, I had a caddie whose favorite “go to” saying was, “if you play this game long enough, it will make a grown man cry”. However, at that point in time, I did not grasped the real meaning of those words. Being fairly new to the game, my focus was on the execution of hitting the ball, thinking mastering that was all that was required to play good golf. So, I totally missed the point that its not the physical but the mental side that will bring you to tears. Now, after playing for over 50 years, you can not play this game…
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Has this EVER happen before ?
Sam Horsfield, an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, won his second tournament in three weeks. “That’s nice but definitely has happen before, correct?” And, the answer is “Yes”, but only one person, Seve Ballesteros, won 2 out of 3 times he teed it up in succession while missing the cut in the tournament in between. HOWEVER, from what I can find out, Horsfield is the only golfer that has done it over a period of three consecutive weeks. In other words, win, missed cut, win in back to back to back tour events. And, perhaps, a more interesting thing, is the European Tour is playing this…
