When I started playing golf last year, I didn’t have anyone to play with here in Rochester — my parents play but they live a couple hours’ drive away.
Not having local golfing buddies hasn’t really bothered me too much. When I feel like playing I just drive out to a local muni, where, more [...]

On number 11 on the Afton Golf Club — my parents took my daughter and me there to shoot 18.
It’s a par 5 hole.
I’m ecstatic.

Because I’m A. on a budget, and B. too much of a newbie to right about investing country club dollars into my game just yet, I’ve mostly stuck to the municipal clubs. Today I played Durand Eastman.
It was my first time on that course.
Only nine holes — I played over lunch — and I [...]