A day of major purchases. I am coming to you live from a footrest, as the chair I used has broken. Chair is perhaps a grandiose term for it. Alas, in the words of Jaeger Kovich: "She gone." This Week in the Cross Fitness A "Jackie" PR. Always good when you crush your all-time favorite... Continue Reading →
Friday Coffee: 7 Apr 2017
A tradition like many others. That's Not Saucy Living I spent the week successfully avoiding my "snooze" button. Assisting thing effort is preparing a light morning meal and coffee prior to leaving for work around 4:20AM. I awoke this morning to prepare coffee in order to write this post at my normal time. Whoops. Out... Continue Reading →
Friday Coffee: 31 Mar 2017
Glorious sleep. After a rough week or so of sleeping, I finally managed to get into a deep dream state last night. Despite those troubles I managed a fairly alert week with little daytime fatigue. A gorgeous week of weather probably helped my general attitude as well. Summer is knocking on the door. Florida springs... Continue Reading →
Friday Coffee: 24 Mar 2017
Because coffee is better in a ceramic mug. My last bout of flu was concurrent with the end of my trip to Savannah, GA last month. I went a few days without coffee and while thinking that I would feel like garbage anyway, decided it would be a good time to attempt to quit. That... Continue Reading →
Some Cleveland Heights Photos
Photos from a few weeks ago at Cleveland Heights. Captions label the current routing of the hole as well as the original routing by William Flynn in parenthesis where appropriate. Discovering that the original 11th tee still existed in the form of a forward tee today has enhanced my enjoyment of The Heights. While the... Continue Reading →
Five Golf Maintenance Practices I Abhor (And Why You Should, Too!)
Best practices in an profession are often the result of years of experience, learning, and in some cases like the Accountancy, pending or past litigation or legislation. Though the golf world often invokes passionate opinion amongst its population, the relative lack of worldly importance in daily golf maintenance means that the drive to truly optimize... Continue Reading →
Without Undue Delay: Playing Efficient Golf
I am well-known in my golfing circles for playing quickly. Growing up on a local municipal course, often with the need to finish between the end of school and dark, I developed a series of quick play habits that are not often developed by other golfers. I advocate fairly loudly for a movement to decrease... Continue Reading →
St. Andrew’s (Old): The Icon of Golf’s Sporting Roots
My twitter feed, set afire a week ago by the announced changes to St. Andrew's Old, has finally calmed down. The surprisingly swift - and broad reaching - uproar over the changes dominated like no other issue in the past year. Naturally, this is a result of my bias toward golf-related accounts and issues and... Continue Reading →
Lake Nona
I met with a golfing companion yesterday at Lake Nona. While walking to the putting green awaiting his arrival, I noticed a golf cart with two Notre Dame Football bumper stickers and a lanky man sitting in it. I nodded and moved along to the putting green. Thinking it over, I realized the man bore... Continue Reading →
Lifetime Memory
Sometime earlier this year Ben Crenshaw made a site visit to Streamsong. I drove up to speak with Rusty Mercer, our superintendent and my boss, about some trivial matter while Ben hit a few chip shots into the ninth green of the Red Course. Ben turned to Rusty with a beaming smile on his face:... Continue Reading →