You’ve procrastinated just about long enough, now you’re not sure what to do for the golfer on your Christmas list! Here are a few quick ideas for you, most of which you should be able to pick up just about anywhere golf equipment and accessories are sold, or at your local golf course.
Golf Tees
Fill your golfer’s stocking up with golf tees. Seriously. We golfers can never have too many.
I suggest checking out the Tornado Tee, Champ Zarma Fly Tee, or Frogger Green Monsters.
Ball Towel
I love having a wet/dry towel in my pocket. It is great to have when I get to the green and realize my ball needs some cleaning and my large towel is far away from me off the green.
I suggest a Frogger Amphibian Ball Towel, which should be available in big box golf stores.
Golf Glove
If your golfer wears a glove, pick up one or two. Golf glove wearers can never have enough. If you’re not sure what size or brand to get, sneak a peek inside your golfer’s bag and check out one of his/her gloves in there.
I’m quite fond of Asher Golf Gloves.
Golf Balls
Just like golf tees, we golfers can NEVER have enough golf balls! Not sure what brand your golfer likes? Just like the glove gig above, take a peek in his/her bag and see what balls are in there. If it’s a mixture or you’re still not sure, I’d go with a Bridgestone Golf ball.
If your golfer is a low handicap go for the B330 or B330-S, and for a mid-handicap go for the B330-RX or B330-RXS. Higher handicaps perhaps the Bridgestone E-Series balls would be good.
Lessons from a PGA Pro
A gift that will keep on giving for a long time would be some lessons. Any golfer, no matter the ability level, could greatly benefit with lessons from a PGA Pro.
Head to your golfer’s home course or a nearby course and pick up a gift certificate or buy them a set of lessons.
Golf
While you’re at your local course, pick up the golfer on your list some GOLF. Most courses sell gift certificates, or even multi-round punch cards.
Pick up the golfer on your list a five or 10 golf round punch card, or perhaps some buckets of balls on the practice range.
Bacon
If all else fails above, pick up some bacon for the golfer on your Christmas list.
Why? Because: BACON!
Majestic…
As I sip (maybe gulp) my cheap French wine, I pen the season’s first winter golf whine, sure to not be journalistic brilliance. Then again, I’ve never done that anyway…
Wine Whine
I’m still alive. Thanks for your concern. Haven’t posted in a few days. I’m alive, but my golf game has begun winter hibernation. Haven’t played a round of golf in 10 days and the round before that was 7 days. That’s like Back9Network going five minutes without posting a photo of Amanda Dufner or Paulina Gretzky. In other words, an eternity.
It’s cold here in northern Utah now. We don’t have snow on the ground and the golf courses are still “open,” but there’s nobody on them except crazy people. Now is the time to play if you want to finish a round quickly, and don’t mind the occasional mis-hit long iron stinger which makes your hands go numb for 10 minutes, or exactly the length of time before you hit the next one. Ah yes, the time of year we golfers have to wear five layers, looking like the Pillsbury Dough Boy swinging a golf club. Hard to hit good shots that way. The only good shots of the day typically come from a flask of scotch.
Boo.
Maybe I’ll head south to St. George, Utah or perhaps Mesquite, Nevada. That’s only a 4-5 hour drive. Would love to hit Vegas. Those trips are fun, but the rust is so bad by the time I’m desperate enough to drive 500 miles to play…
Even more irritating is that I just got some new Mizuno irons. Only logged three rounds with them and in that third round, hit a couple of them decent. Just started to get used to them perhaps?
Who knows. Won’t matter next March or April when I drag the clubs out of the garage and try to figure out which end to hold and which end strikes the ball.
First world problems.
Bob Meddles’s treatment of sandbaggers is to strip them naked, bind their hands and feet with duct tape, and toss them in the lake behind #13 green where crawdads can feast on their flesh until the end of time. In my opinion this punishment for sandbaggers, or CHEATERS as I prefer to call them, is a much too lenient. That said, I’ve had a hell of a fun time glued to Bob’s book, The Hacker’s Guide to Golf: Stories of Golf and the People Who Play it…Badly.
The Hacker’s Guide to Golf is a 127 page laugh-fest, illustrated by CABoyer. Inside the book are all the things a hacker needs to know about the game, golf etiquette, golf equipment, drinking, cheating, rules. The book even covers the biggest mistake a married man can make, trying to teach his wife how to golf. “Sorry honey, I’m not laughing at you…. please put the club down Elin…”
Reading Bob’s book is like reading an autobiography. As the book says, my swing feels right when I’m doing anything BUT what my instructor tells me to do. For the first time I’ve found a book which perfectly describes my ultimate nightmare, a charity golf scramble. As a 1-handicap I’m always getting invited to these things and they instantly ruin my game. The last one I played in I was paired up with a (nice) lady who had never hit a golf ball in her life, and two 80 year old men. I was the anchor. If I was a 36 handicap I still would have been the anchor. We only missed first place by about 50 shots. Yeah the winners shot a 43, for 18 holes (par 72).
Conclusion
Well played Bob. Hats off to you. Nailed it. Someone finally wrote a book about golf which is accurate. Yes, under no circumstances will the practice putting green bear any resemblance to the greens on the actual course.
This past weekend at the Franklin Templeton Shootout was the debut of Fox Sports’ golf coverage, featuring Joe Buck and Greg Norman on the call. Golf websites are buzzing with opinions. The Greg Norman and Joe Buck lovers have great comments, and predictably the haters have criticisms. Some sites have penned several thousand word essays on the coverage, down to nitpicking every sentence and every transition from one camera angle to the next. Seems like a case of analysis paralysis to me.
I have not watched any golf on TV since the Ryder Cup. I’d much rather play golf than watch it. I don’t imagine I’ll watch any professional golf on TV until the 2015 Masters Tournament, so my take on Fox and their golf coverage can be summed up in one sentence:
“Too apathetic to care.”
What’s your take on the job Joe Buck, Greg Norman and crew did this past weekend?
Sandy, Utah 12/13/14 – I just got back from a quick aerial photo flight with my hexacopter at Sandy, Utah’s Hidden Valley Country Club. I lucked out between rain and snow storms to catch some photos of the redesign of the par-3 Mountain Course 9th hole. The hole is being moved to make room for the pending swimming pool which will open next year. The pool will be located in the soon to be former location of the Mountain 9th green. In these photos you can see the old green still intact. I presume when the shaping is ready for the new green, they’ll move the old surface over.
Hidden Valley Country Club Mountain #9 Redesign – click image to see larger version
In the photo below you can see that the new tee on Mountain nine looks to go through a chute of trees. Slightly reminds me of the 18th at Augusta National.
New tee box on lower edge of photo – click photo to see larger version
In the photo below you can see a photo shot directly above the old 9th green and the new 9th green location.
Right: me and my white car. Middle right: old 9th green. Middle lower-left: new 9th green (I presume)
For more Hidden Valley Country Club photos, visit the Hooked On Golf Blog Hidden Valley Country Club photo gallery.
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