Is golf in trouble?
My dad and I have been talking about it because one of the courses he plays once in awhile — the Conklin outside of Binghamton, NY — used to have long lines to tee off, but now is often considerably more quiet.
It opened in 1991.
Its weekend rate is $54 plus $10 if [...]

Played 18 at Taranwould Golf Course with the EWGA travel league today. It’s a short course — 4350 yard, par 66 — but it doesn’t play particularly short, at least not to this admitted neophyte golfer.
One of the interesting things about the course is that several of the holes are replicas of holes at famous [...]

I have taken three lessons now with Darlene Sommer at Play Better Golf. First she changed my grip. Then she changed my address.
Yesterday she took me on the next step — my backswing.
Turns out I wasn’t rotating my shoulders at the top of my swing — they were too flat. This caused my club head [...]

Golfgirl linked to an article by a Scotsman who believes women don’t work as much on their shorts games as much as men do.
Unfortunately, he takes a rather unkind tone — he describes women’s short games with words like “inadequate” and “inferior” — hello, somebody else needs to be expressing a bit of [...]

Rochester’s got three municipal golf courses, and Genesee Valley Park is the one that’s closest to my house. For that reason it’s the course I’ve played the most since I took this game up in the middle of last summer.
I played a couple times there this week now, too. Sunday I played my best [...]

I often stick my digital camera in my golf bag, but I haven’t been very good about publishing the pics I take. (It’s a great way to cool your heels if you’re behind slow players btw.)
So here to set things right are a couple pictures I took yesterday while golfing with my EWGA travel league [...]

Golfgal has posted tips for women who are just getting started in this game.
IMO, breaking the grass ceiling means we women have to do grass roots work to pass along what we’ve learned — particularly as pertains to the first couple of years of play, when so much is new and we (inevitably) feel [...]

“They say” that when you take lessons, your game will initially get a little worse. That’s been true for me — despite having a few great holes, I’ve been watching my already-high-handicap creep up the last few weeks, instead of going the other way.
But I may have turned a corner within the last few days [...]

When I went to the Rochester LPGA in June, they were offering free 10 minute lessons. Fortunately they were booked solid that day, so instead I got option B: take a lesson with golf pro Darlene Sommer at Play Better Golf.
So a few weeks later I set up an appointment and went in.
It blew [...]

I’d just hit a nice iron onto the green.
Then the garbage truck roared on the street out front. Woke me up.
And I’m so sure I was going to par that hole . . .