While you suckers in the northern states are preparing to put your clubs away for the winter, us lucky souls down south are simply trying to remember where we’ve put our long pants. After all, that’s all winter really means to us: pants instead of shorts when we golf.
Us southern boys also get the opportunity, unlike you Yanks, to try out the new equipment that is invariably released in September or October. This week, we’ve got news of lots of new gear from both Cobra and TaylorMade.
Don’t worry, my northern brothers, you’ll be playing this equipment in six or seven months!
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Lorena Ochoa continues her domination of the LPGA Tour as she wins the Samsung Championship for her seventh victory of the year. She also takes Player of the Year honors for the second year in a row.
I love putters. All shapes, sizes, lengths, and colors. Mostly I love putters that are different or unique.
When I heard about the Subconscious Training Corporation and their mental training series for golfers, I knew I had to try it. As a physician and skeptic of the millions of herbal remedies, supplements, and outright snake oil that gets pushed on a gullible public, I was determined to assure that no such quackery made its way into the homes or dented the bank accounts of golf enthusiasts.
A friend of mine invited me to play in a casual five-club challenge a few weeks ago. By “five-club challenge,” she meant that you could only carry five clubs (not that there were five different clubs competing). As it turned out, I wasn’t able to play because of a little thing called a job (my early retirement plan hasn’t yet come to fruition… come on Super Lotto!), but I did go so far as to start planning out my strategy.
Having lived most of my adult life below the Mason-Dixon line, settling in the northeast has thrown a wrench into my golf game. As I prepare for my second climate-imposed golf hiatus, I must admit I’m a bit nervous.