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Effective Immediately.

Applies to all golfers ages 77 and up.

Senior Golf Rule Changes for 2009

Colleagues: The AARP has negotiated with the PGA to modify the rules of golf for seniors.

Rule 1.a.5 A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed on the fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the rough with no penalty.  The senior should not be penalized for tall grass which the groundskeeper failed to mow due to sheer laziness.

Rule 2.d.6 (b) A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. This is simply bad  luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The senior player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there, no penalty of course.

Rule 3.b.3 (g) There shall be no such thing as a lost ball. The missing ball is on or near the course and will eventually be found and pocketed by another golfer, making it a stolen ball. The player is not to compound the felony by charging himself or herself with a penalty.

Rule 4.c.7 (h) If a putt passes over a hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped. The law of gravity supersedes the rules of golf.

Rule 5. Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they could be blown in, may be blown (if infact the golfer has the lung capacity to do so). This does not apply to balls more than three inches from the hole. No one wants to make a travesty of the game.

Rule 6.a.9 (k) There is no pelanty for so-called “out of bounds.” If penny-pinching golf course ownders bought sufficient land, this would not occur. The senior golfer deserves an apology, not a penalty.

Rule 7.g.15 (z) There is no penalty for a ball in a water hazard, as golf balls should float. Senior golfers should not be penalized for manufacturers’ shortcomings.

Rule 8.k.9 (s) Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new golf equipment. since this is financially impracticable for many senior golfers, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.

Please advise all your senior friends of these important rule changes.

Welcome to the new week!

-Dave

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I found a really good article about the golf industry over the last century, sort of a recap on where it’s been and where it appears to be heading.  It was written by Mark Frost over at WSJ.

Golf’s Crash Course in Humility

When the Scot’s first built golf courses, they were built as public parks and they were free to play for everyone.  Oh, the good ole days….

Enjoy!  Have a great weekend.

-Dave

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Last Saturday, my son had his first lesson of the Little Linksters Golf Program.  If you recall, I posted an earlier post discussing the specifics of the program which can be found here Little Linksters junior golf comes to Lake Mary Prep.

Brendon Elliott and his wife Melisa started this program to serve a usually overlooked niche, the middle class families.  You’ve got the programs for the underprivileged and the programs for the over privileged but there’s nothing for those of us in between.  I guess I should also mention that they have a three year old daughter and if you ask this golf blogger, he also created the program as an excuse to play more golf (well, eventually anyway, he’s just setting the groundwork now)!

So the first week was pretty much an intro, they watched a surprisingly engaging kids golf video called “Club Pro’s Kids Kingdom.”  Regrettably I was not able to watch the entire video, I excused myself from the room once I realized I was the only parent left in the class room..   But two of the main characters was a little boy named St. Andrews and a little girl named Augusta!  I was chuckling pretty hard and I was saddened that none of the other participants got the joke…. just what are they teaching kids these days??

After the video was over, Brendon went through an eDimples junior golf activity book with them.  The book gave a good intro into some of the broader golf concepts.    Below is a picture of Brendon and Melisa with some of this classes participants.  Can you guess which of these yard apes is mine?  I’ll give you a hint, he has devilishly good looks gained from his father’s side of the family.

The class ended with all the kids getting a swag bag, complete with goodies for parents and kids alike, as well as a free twosome out at Winter Park!  It’s intended to be a post graduation round for you and your newly trained golf padawan.  For those with children, Brendon mentioned that Winter Park is a kid friendly course!

I was impressed with the amount of patience these two have when dealing with a room full of energetic children.  The kids all left the classroom excited about golf and my son Aiden was wearing his new Little Linkster’s visor all the way home.

He was so pumped about golf that I had to take him to play putt-putt, twice!!  But let’s not get me started on the price of a round of putt-putt, it’s highway robbery!

Stay tuned for more posts about the Little Linksters.

-Dave

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A couple weeks ago I wrote about how psyched I was to discover that one of the OOBGolf.com Mystery Bags, I purchased and received contained three Eidolon V-Sole Wedges and how to my dismay they were for all those wrong handers.  See OOBGolf Mystery Bags II for the full article.

I contacted Eidolon and Terry Koehler a.k.a The Wedge Guy was more than happy to exchange them out for a set of lefties.  See Golf Blog for the full article.

Well, at last!  I received my lefty wedges over the weekend.  In the box, there was a 52, 56, 60 degree Rifle Spinner Firm Flex left handed, totally awesome Eidolon V-Sole Wedges!

I had no time to go to the range this weekend, so I spent some time with them in the back yard and I can’t wait to get out to the range!

Look at how happy my youngest son(Kai) is! He was cruising around in his 1968 Shelby Mustang and had to stop and admire daddy’s new toys.

Thanks Terry for swapping these out for me!  I’ll be putting them to good use!

-Dave

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