Fellow golfers, it’s that time again. No, Lee Westwood hasn’t choked away another major; it’s the beginning of a new year. Time to hunker down under five feet of snow, wistfully stare at the golf clubs in your basement sitting on top of the treadmill collecting dust, and game plan for next year. You’re going to be a 10 handicap by June, and make it to the single-digit by August. That new driver you just got yourself for Christmas doesn’t look quite as nice, as you read the Golf Digest Equipment issue, but it’s a new year and you’re going to hit the ball longer than ever. A 48-inch driver shaft is all you’ve been missing. Accuracy be damned!
All kidding aside, this is supposed to be a happy time of year full of new beginnings and fresh starts, and I have plenty of things to be thankful for, in golf, in life, and this is as good a time as any to put them into writing. Join me in helping send off 2011, will you?
Hello again Sand Trapper and welcome to the 300th edition of everyone’s favorite column Hittin’ the Links. Yep, 300 columns, seems like yesterday that I started writing this. Well here’s to another 300.
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The lyrics for the song used to help advertise the children’s toy the Slinky included the line that “for fun it’s the best of toys.”
“Stay out of the bunkers” is the warning from the starter on the first tee, which also happens to be the putting green at Atlantic City Country Club.
The Anser carries the same name as one of the early iron models Karsten Solheim produced before he transitioned to the popular investment-casting process. The newest version pushes the forging process to create performance benefits not previously associated with a forged club.