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Category Archives: Local Stories
Patience is a Virtue in Every Language
Golf Lessons from Different Cultures May 1, 2005 I have had the good fortune as a teaching professional to work with people from a variety of cultures. It is one of the best parts of my job, getting to meet … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, Local Stories, Mental Approach
Tagged Instruction, patience, practice, swing
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Plebeians Playing on Mount Olympus
Our Day at the Robert Trent Jones Club April 2, 2006 We plebeians descended on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club like a Mongolian horde. One of the perks of volunteering at the President’s Cup last fall was playing a … Continue reading
Praising Lakeview
A Scenic Best-Buy in the Shenandoah Valley January 19, 2005 In the 1980s the economy boomed with real estate speculation, and developers built golf courses all over the place. In the 90s, the dot-coms were on fire and developers built … Continue reading
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Tagged course, Harrisonburg, Lakeview, scenic, Shenandoah Valley
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Rejoining the Battle
A Game for Friends to Share June 5, 2005 Gene and I started playing golf, or some bastardized slash-and-burn version of the game, when we were about fifteen or sixteen years old. I do not remember why we started playing. … Continue reading
Spring in the Shenandoah Valley
A Time and Place for New Beginnings April 24, 2005 Spring wanders into the Shenandoah Valley like a vagrant, on no particular schedule, and likely to jump a ride out of town just when we get used to him being … Continue reading
No Bones About It, It Was Ian’s Day
Ian Frazier’s Amazing Story November 25, 2006 In a subtle, pleated-pants way, the game of golf has a tendency to create those transcendent moments when we feel larger than life, when we go beyond our personal limits. It is very … Continue reading
The Spiritual Side of Golf
This Game Sometimes Goes Beyond the Physical December 15, 2004 What is it about golf that brings out the spiritual, almost mystical side in people? I remember giving a lesson once with a tall, somewhat disheveled guy. We worked on … Continue reading
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Learning the Game
Learning Alone Might Not Be the Way to Go December 1, 2004 The young man, about sixteen years old, was a cart boy and snack bar attendant at a municipal golf course in Maryland. He had a mess of sandy … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, Local Stories
Tagged fundamentals, goal, Instruction, lessons, personal
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Winter Golf
When the Game Becomes Something Else November 17, 2004 Welcome to winter golf. Technically, we are only half way through autumn, but golfers know that winter really starts when the clocks “fall back”. That is when the sun slinks away … Continue reading
A Battle of High Principles
Is Golf a Game of Walking or Riding? November 3, 2004 This will be the thirteenth time that the Walkers and Riders have knocked heads. It all started in 1997, when Casey Martin, a tour player with a circulatory disease … Continue reading
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