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The Making of a Golf Professional

Lots of people find themselves in jobs or professions that, admittedly, they don’t like. The work simply doesn’t excite them. Maybe they do it because they feel that their job is where the money is. But it doesn’t have to be that way. As the noted professor and lecturer Joseph Campbell, wrote: “If you do follow […]

All About Aces

Opposite the Pro Shop at Aliso Viejo Country Club, hanging on the wall in the long, first floor hallway of the clubhouse, hangs a very large, wooden plaque, 72″ wide and 77″ high. On the plaque, 228, 2.75″ x 1.00″ brass plates are positioned in 12 columns with 19 plates in each column. 46 of […]

Fathers and Sons – Part One

For the past eight years I have worked as a volunteer Walking Scorer at the PGA Champions Tour Toshiba Classic at Newport Beach Country Club. It has given me the opportunity to meet, talk with and observe at close hand over fifty Champions Tour golfers, including major championship winners such as Gary Player, Lee Trevino, […]

Playing in the Wind

Golf is a game played in beautiful surroundings. Golfers play out in the open air, on golf courses that are usually carefully cultivated and highly manicured playgrounds, where their bright white golf balls gleam against the green grasses that fill the fairways. Even the hazards the golfers try to avoid can be visually appealing. Bunkers are filled […]

The Games of Golf

One Saturday in August nearly 25 years ago, I was playing golf with my friend, John Gregorits, at Flanders Valley GC in Morris County, NJ. John was a fine golfer, who usually beat me like a drum, even when I played well. But that day, although he got ahead by two holes after we’d played […]