The Presidio Golf Course Has Love Fore the Environment

The Presidio golf course is one of the Presidio’s greatest attractions, with amazing panoramic views and a rich history. But, now the world is honoring the course for being a leader in environmentally sensitive golf course management. By capturing the highly-regarded Turfgrass Excellence Award in the public category of the Golf Superintendents Association of Northern California, course superintendent Brian Nettz can say with confidence that the greens at the Presidio course are truly greener.

The Presidio was built in 1895, making it the second oldest in Northern California. But by using... (more)

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The Best Golf Resort in the World

Whether you pick up your first club at the age of four (as I did) or 64 (as a family friend did recently), golf is like a drug: once you've had a taste, you crave more. The problem for golfers everywhere is how to get their fix whilst on vacation with non-golfing family members. The answer? A golf resort.

Golf Channel Solutions estimates that there are currently 26.2 million golfers just in the United States, and there are thought to be in the region of 100 million golfers world-wide. Golfers, if they were to unite together around the world as a special interest group, could wield some... (more)

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Memo to critics of Augusta National: mind your own business

The over blown row about the all-male Augusta National Golf Club generated almost as much editorial mileage here in the UK as the Masters' Championship staged there. Candidly, it gave me a pain where I should have pleasure: political correctness always has that effect on me. I tend to switch off when such misguided campaigners use major events to ride a fashionable hobby horse but in this instance, because golf is involved, a response is appropriate.

Doubtless I'll be contravening some newly-designated law or other and will probably find myself prosecuted or ostracised but, having... (more)

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Votin' On a Dream

...cherished of American Dreams - total isolation from reality, in the gated community of our choice, with the yacht, the Bentley, the trophy wife/husband, 2.5 kids, a tax shelter in Borneo. In other words, we, too, can jump out of the miserable worker-bee existence we found ourselves in and play golf with the Big Boys. Whoo! Some of you really got it bad!

Here's the truth of the matter, however. That dream? That big steamin' pile 'o pig knuckles ya'll think you and "the candidate of your choice" is going to make possible, "as soon as you can kick out those bad people who don't believe ... (more)

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Indulge Your Passions

... I was, the net twice as tall, but he introduced me to something I’ve loved ever since. Just the smell of a freshly opened can of balls, or feel of fine leather along a racquets grip makes me smile. I played all throughout my early years and still follow the sport as much as I can. And although golf has ruled the Sunday afternoon airwaves for quite a while now, I jump on cable TV when anything related to tennis begins to air, especially during the weeks of Wimbledon, The U.S., French, and Australian Open. The game’s changed quite a bit since I first began playing, the players much younger ... (more)

Tags: mental health, happiness, passion, randy mitchell, bb king, being passionate, living longer

The Molly Lake Chronicles, Book Two: Barely Afloat

...historically accurate, exciting and suspenseful, and engages the readers’ emotions from start to finish. I highly recommend it.

Samuel Endicott was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1949 and earned degrees from both the University of Mississippi and the University of California. He is also a graduate of the Army CGSOC and the Naval War College and as an army ranger and paratrooper went on to serve in the combat engineers from 1975 to 1995. He enjoys golf, sailing, and tennis and resides in Virginia with his wife, Elaine.

Reviewer: Cindy Taylor, www.allbooksreviewint.com

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Poetry Slam

... much a child. Being..."

James: "Zzzzzzzzzzzzz"

Dad: "Would you stop."

James: "When do you get to the part when I can snap my fingers and say 'Yeah Daddy-O'?"

Dad: "It's not that kind of poetry."

Olympia (Age 13): "Instead at the end we give him the 'Two Snaps, Golf Clap'.

Dad: "Can I go back to this please?"

Olympia: "Go for it. We are all ears."

Dad: "Being mischievous. Running... Your texting?"

Olympia: "I was telling Sarah that I couldn't talk to her right now I was busy."

James: "You need to be prepared for this... (more)

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Not Lost in Translation Part II

... combine cheap wine, Greek cigarettes and a lack of dental care, Claude’s death breath was offending everyone and everything—including flies and passing seagulls.

So, as I was brainstorming, and I instantly thought of Caddyshack, one of my favorite comedies ever produced, a farce about golf at a big country club and all of the juvenile activities surrounding it. It stars Bill Murray, Ted Knight, Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield. In the film, there are several memorable scenes, including the now legendary one involving a candy bar being thrown into a swimming pool, which was based ... (more)

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The Politics Of Cowardice

...and at risk teenage girls get their high school diploma;educate both young mothers and their daughters and go on to college in many cases is being closed because one man appointed by that governor has decided that the Ferguson Academy is too expensive to maintain but a subsidy to build a golf course in Benton Harbor is not.] There is silence punctuated by the rolling of skies and the snoring of crickets. Why are the God loving flag waving tea partier and small government Libertarians not assembling on Michigan’s border pitchforks and torches at the ready to fight that government... (more)

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Interview with author Fritz Sprandel

...He was definitely the black sheep of the family.

Besides thriving on dares, Fritz spent most of his working life as a sales coordinator with Keller Marine and RV Distributors in Port Trevorton, Pennsylvania. Now retired, Fritz fills his days writing about his many adventures, playing golf, studying the Bible, and driving part time for the limousine division of Bieber Transportation Company of Kutztown, Pennsylvania “to pay for the golf.”

You can visit Fritz’s website at www.fritzsprandel.com.

What inspired you to write your first book?

I rediscovered... (more)

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