From an informed reader:
Hello,
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Kind Regards,
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Dubai and Tiger
What do DubaiWorld and Tiger Woods have in common?
They both crashed last night sending shockwaves throughout the world.
Both situations are in the early stages, and it is too early to speculate on how it happened, but both are in serious condition.
Our prayers go out to Tiger and his family. Let's hope this turns out better that early reports suggest.
JFB
They both crashed last night sending shockwaves throughout the world.
Both situations are in the early stages, and it is too early to speculate on how it happened, but both are in serious condition.
Our prayers go out to Tiger and his family. Let's hope this turns out better that early reports suggest.
JFB
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Apocalypse
Sports Illustrated is my favorite magazine. The magazine has had a great effect on my interest in sports by exposing me to events that I could only imagine whilst growing up in my small town.
SI has changed throughout the years, but one thing has stayed constant...the writing and pictures...both are the gold standard when it comes to sports coverage.
Every week, they have an excerpt of an uncommon happening in the world of sports that is both head-shaking, and funny...it is called 'Sign of the Apocalypse'...and this week's is a topper. Leno and Stewart I'm sure will have some good comebacks for this one!
Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a new kink in the word kinky...no word yet on how the women will putt...but I'm guessing a man's putter will be involved. I can't wait to see this on YouTube!
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
SI has changed throughout the years, but one thing has stayed constant...the writing and pictures...both are the gold standard when it comes to sports coverage.
Every week, they have an excerpt of an uncommon happening in the world of sports that is both head-shaking, and funny...it is called 'Sign of the Apocalypse'...and this week's is a topper. Leno and Stewart I'm sure will have some good comebacks for this one!
Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a new kink in the word kinky...no word yet on how the women will putt...but I'm guessing a man's putter will be involved. I can't wait to see this on YouTube!
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I'm....NOT going to DisneyLand.
This week's PGA golfers are in sunny Florida schmoozing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
All except David Duval, he slammed his trunk and will be taking the long way home in golf-speak. He is one of many that will be finishing lower than the official money bar of 125.
To be sure, he will still be able to enter tournaments in 2010 because he finished in the top 150, giving him the dreaded "conditional status"....similar to the H1N1.
Because of his dramatic runner-up finish in this years' US Open, he will no doubt get a few sponsor exemptions for next year as well, and he is exempt in the first 3 majors next year...so all is not lost for David Duval.
According to the AJC.com, he is already signed up for Q school.
Maybe this is what he wants...it's the challenge of coming all the way back...kind of like this years' US Open, when he had to qualify by starting at the local level, and making it thru the traditional way.
Whatever it is, we wish him luck.
Thanks for reading, keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
All except David Duval, he slammed his trunk and will be taking the long way home in golf-speak. He is one of many that will be finishing lower than the official money bar of 125.
To be sure, he will still be able to enter tournaments in 2010 because he finished in the top 150, giving him the dreaded "conditional status"....similar to the H1N1.
Because of his dramatic runner-up finish in this years' US Open, he will no doubt get a few sponsor exemptions for next year as well, and he is exempt in the first 3 majors next year...so all is not lost for David Duval.
According to the AJC.com, he is already signed up for Q school.
Maybe this is what he wants...it's the challenge of coming all the way back...kind of like this years' US Open, when he had to qualify by starting at the local level, and making it thru the traditional way.
Whatever it is, we wish him luck.
Thanks for reading, keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Friday, November 06, 2009
Dress code?...Psshaa!
A while back...(and for me, as fast as time flys...that is a long time ago) I visited a semi-private golf course to hit balls on their range. I was in a rush, so I didn't have the proper attire for this course...but, hay, I was only going to their range.
Nope.
"But sir, I just want to hit a bucket of balls...I'll even go to the far end behind where the ball retriever is sitting".
Nope. We require collared shirt, and no jeans.
Fast forward to today, that course is closed with empty homes on it, and I'm still golfing...
...with jeans.
With the rise of casual jeans in the inner social circles of the pure-breds, the dress-code is under assault.
The G20 convention in Pittsburgh this year was dotted with movers and shakers that looked like they should have been at a rodeo rather than at a world convention to determine the fate of the world.
Recently, this phenomena was covered in the WSJ noting the latest fashion...or a better word, comfort trend.
Golf courses that have strict dress codes will have to rethink their stance. Gone are the days when a $40 pair of Dockers slacks trumps a $150 pair of Diesal jeans. Golf courses need to put their dress code rules in relaxed-fit, lose the straight-legged verbiage, and get the 411 on the 501.
Last week I had the option of playing a lovely semi-private course on my day off. I picked up the phone to call for a tee time...then thought about how nice the Levi 560's that I was wearing felt...
...so I redialed and called the local municipal course.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Nope.
"But sir, I just want to hit a bucket of balls...I'll even go to the far end behind where the ball retriever is sitting".
Nope. We require collared shirt, and no jeans.
Fast forward to today, that course is closed with empty homes on it, and I'm still golfing...
...with jeans.
With the rise of casual jeans in the inner social circles of the pure-breds, the dress-code is under assault.
The G20 convention in Pittsburgh this year was dotted with movers and shakers that looked like they should have been at a rodeo rather than at a world convention to determine the fate of the world.
Recently, this phenomena was covered in the WSJ noting the latest fashion...or a better word, comfort trend.
Golf courses that have strict dress codes will have to rethink their stance. Gone are the days when a $40 pair of Dockers slacks trumps a $150 pair of Diesal jeans. Golf courses need to put their dress code rules in relaxed-fit, lose the straight-legged verbiage, and get the 411 on the 501.
Last week I had the option of playing a lovely semi-private course on my day off. I picked up the phone to call for a tee time...then thought about how nice the Levi 560's that I was wearing felt...
...so I redialed and called the local municipal course.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Monday, October 12, 2009
Marvelous
You gotta love the early SNL skits of Fernando Llamas I believe his "You look Marvelous" line was used 1000 times at my graduation party.
Rio "the marvelous city" will host not only the 2016 games, but will also bring golf to the games, where it so rightly belongs.
The future betting will not however be on the golfer that wins the gold, but for the golfer that builds the course.
See, Rio has no golf courses...it does have pristine beaches with scantily clad sun worshippers and sugar cane fields with...um...controlled burns.
Now it's not Billy that will be saying his famous line, but rather Norman, Faldo and Nicklaus.
No, I'm not talking about their dreams of competing with their sticks...
...they will be competing with their shovels.
So, it is in this beautiful corner of the world, that these great men will train their bulldozers over Rio Terra Firma, to reach the gold in a much more high stakes game than what the actual golf shots will contest, for the Olympic gold.
They will be competing for residuals, the right to call their golf resort the "Official Golf Course of the 2016 Olympiad", and have that moniker to have and to hold way after the Games have gone.
...and that will allow one of these great men to check their bank account while the Rio gold flows to them and say..."Mahvalas".
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Rio "the marvelous city" will host not only the 2016 games, but will also bring golf to the games, where it so rightly belongs.
The future betting will not however be on the golfer that wins the gold, but for the golfer that builds the course.
See, Rio has no golf courses...it does have pristine beaches with scantily clad sun worshippers and sugar cane fields with...um...controlled burns.
Now it's not Billy that will be saying his famous line, but rather Norman, Faldo and Nicklaus.
No, I'm not talking about their dreams of competing with their sticks...
...they will be competing with their shovels.
So, it is in this beautiful corner of the world, that these great men will train their bulldozers over Rio Terra Firma, to reach the gold in a much more high stakes game than what the actual golf shots will contest, for the Olympic gold.
They will be competing for residuals, the right to call their golf resort the "Official Golf Course of the 2016 Olympiad", and have that moniker to have and to hold way after the Games have gone.
...and that will allow one of these great men to check their bank account while the Rio gold flows to them and say..."Mahvalas".
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Sibling Rivalries
You have your Eli's and Peyton's...your Serena's and Vanessa's...and the Laroche boys...
...get ready for the Thompson's.
In case you missed it, Friday held some trepidation for two youngsters from the same household: Nicholas Thompson, and his little sister Alexis.
Big brother Nicholas, a former Georgia Tech golf standout who shared the leaderboard with the eventual winner, and Techster, Matt Kuchar at the Turning Stone Championship in Verona NY.
Little sis Alexis, a Florida high-schooler who's 14, shared the leaderboard with eventual winner Lorena Ochoa at the Navistar LPGA Classic at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill spread in Prattsville AL.
I'm sure the household was abuzz! And I'm sure the biggest question was not where they would finish in their respective tournaments...
...but rather which course would the parents walk.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
...get ready for the Thompson's.
In case you missed it, Friday held some trepidation for two youngsters from the same household: Nicholas Thompson, and his little sister Alexis.
Big brother Nicholas, a former Georgia Tech golf standout who shared the leaderboard with the eventual winner, and Techster, Matt Kuchar at the Turning Stone Championship in Verona NY.
Little sis Alexis, a Florida high-schooler who's 14, shared the leaderboard with eventual winner Lorena Ochoa at the Navistar LPGA Classic at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill spread in Prattsville AL.
I'm sure the household was abuzz! And I'm sure the biggest question was not where they would finish in their respective tournaments...
...but rather which course would the parents walk.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
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