My new favorite golf pro is Ben Crane. Nothing sexier than a cute guy, well-dressed, with a sense of humor. Just saying. The well-dressed part might be a stretch, but what he lacks in style, he makes up for in funny.
Showing posts with label golf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golf. Show all posts
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Golf Tip Tuesday: What To Wear
One of the things Kate, my main character, struggles with is what to wear when she's playing golf. She wants to look good (you know, good) for her crush. Unfortunately there's a lot of twisting and bending in golf. And she forgets to do the bend-over test before a big tournament. Yeah. Not good.
Dress code is important in golf. I remember being in a KFC with my husband a few years ago and the local golf team walked in.
You know how I knew?
Teenage boys wearing khakis and collared shirts. Dead giveaway. Preppy.
So what's a girl to do? Back when I was playing junior golf, they didn't have cute outfits for girls who played. You had to sort of make do--skorts and your mother's collared shirt. But today's girls have so many more choices. There are even websites devoted to clothing for girl's golf.
Here's a whole pinterest board devoted to golf wear for girls.
I'm not sure who these girls are, but they look good. And they are right in line with the dress code. But I do wonder if they've done the bend-over test. Kate would approve.
Dress code is important in golf. I remember being in a KFC with my husband a few years ago and the local golf team walked in.
You know how I knew?
Teenage boys wearing khakis and collared shirts. Dead giveaway. Preppy.
So what's a girl to do? Back when I was playing junior golf, they didn't have cute outfits for girls who played. You had to sort of make do--skorts and your mother's collared shirt. But today's girls have so many more choices. There are even websites devoted to clothing for girl's golf.
Here's a whole pinterest board devoted to golf wear for girls.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Golf Tip Tuesday
I'm experimenting with a new series. Since my [as yet unpublished] book, THE SWEET SPOT, is about a girl golfer, I thought I'd devote Tuesdays to talking about the finer points of the game. I'm not limiting myself to terms or strategy, though I might go there. Just anything that comes to mind about the game...
If you have questions or ideas of things you'd like me to cover, please let me know!
So the general object of golf is to finish the game with the fewest strokes possible, right?
Easy Peasy.
Anyone ever use the phrase "par for the course"? Know what it means? Par is a term used for the number of strokes it should take to get the ball in the hole. It's not exactly the average--cause so many people aren't ever going to get par--but it's the score that you should be aiming for. When you say "par for the course"--it's the cumulative score of the full 18 holes.
Used in context, it means "eh, I expected that" or "that's what usually happens".
Par for the course.
And now you know.
If you have questions or ideas of things you'd like me to cover, please let me know!
Easy Peasy.
Anyone ever use the phrase "par for the course"? Know what it means? Par is a term used for the number of strokes it should take to get the ball in the hole. It's not exactly the average--cause so many people aren't ever going to get par--but it's the score that you should be aiming for. When you say "par for the course"--it's the cumulative score of the full 18 holes.
Used in context, it means "eh, I expected that" or "that's what usually happens".
Par for the course.
And now you know.
Monday, April 11, 2011
I is for...Inspiration
Sometimes you research. Sometimes you make it up from scratch. Sometimes you might get inspiration from the most mundane things.
When I was writing THE SWEET SPOT, I mostly relied on my memory for the setting. I remembered the touch and feel of the building and the grounds. The smell of the golf course in the morning. The intangibles. Things I loved and things I hated about growing up on a small golf course in central Massachusetts. I hope I've been able to translate those sensations into words, so my readers will feel like they're there. At my golf course. A golf course that only exists in my memory. The golf course my parents operated when I was a teenager is still there, but it's been completely remodeled and no longer exists in the same way. That big tree on the right? Not there anymore.
When I was working on the final (and I use final loosely here) draft, I came across an old score card dating back to the early 1980s. It gave me the idea to use golf terms for my chapter titles. And it reminded me of the old building. Just reminiscing here folks. What do you use for inspiration?
When I was writing THE SWEET SPOT, I mostly relied on my memory for the setting. I remembered the touch and feel of the building and the grounds. The smell of the golf course in the morning. The intangibles. Things I loved and things I hated about growing up on a small golf course in central Massachusetts. I hope I've been able to translate those sensations into words, so my readers will feel like they're there. At my golf course. A golf course that only exists in my memory. The golf course my parents operated when I was a teenager is still there, but it's been completely remodeled and no longer exists in the same way. That big tree on the right? Not there anymore. 
When I was working on the final (and I use final loosely here) draft, I came across an old score card dating back to the early 1980s. It gave me the idea to use golf terms for my chapter titles. And it reminded me of the old building. Just reminiscing here folks. What do you use for inspiration?
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Honesty v. Victory
Jay Busbee writes a Yahoo online column about golf--he sometimes features unusual or heartwarming stories. He once said in an article--and I have this quote on my desktop--"in golf, honesty is more important than victory."
The gist of the story he profiled today is about a kid who won a junior tournament in Wisconsin. The kid signs the scorecard to make it official, collects the trophy, and goes home. While celebrating later, he notices an extra club in his bag. Golf has some wacky rules. Carrying an extra club costs two penalty strokes every hole. He calls the tournament director and sends the trophy back. Honest kid.
Some of you know my novel is a YA contemporary about a girl who plays golf. So I read Jay's story about an honest fourteen-year-old boy with interest. If there's ever a sequel to my first novel, it might have a character like this kid. Read the full story here.
These are my clubs. If there are more than 14, I'd be penalized. :)
What would you do?
The gist of the story he profiled today is about a kid who won a junior tournament in Wisconsin. The kid signs the scorecard to make it official, collects the trophy, and goes home. While celebrating later, he notices an extra club in his bag. Golf has some wacky rules. Carrying an extra club costs two penalty strokes every hole. He calls the tournament director and sends the trophy back. Honest kid.
Some of you know my novel is a YA contemporary about a girl who plays golf. So I read Jay's story about an honest fourteen-year-old boy with interest. If there's ever a sequel to my first novel, it might have a character like this kid. Read the full story here.
What would you do?
Monday, April 19, 2010
Honesty vs. Victory
Because my novel is about golf (well, a girl who plays golf), I’ve been paying more attention than usual to golf news.
This story, about Brian Davis, is awesome. Brian is a professional golfer who has never won a major tournament. Over the weekend, he was in a final showdown with Jim Furyk when he called himself on a penalty that no one else saw. It underscores the reputation that golf used to have as the sport of gentlemen (or gentle-people - is that a word?). Regardless of recent news of golfers doing bad things, Brian Davis took the honest route. He knew he’d earned the penalty, and he faced it. Took responsibility.
And Jay Busbee, the writer of the news article I read, gives a great quote: “In golf, honesty is more important than victory.” If only more people felt that way about life in general. It's sort of a twist on the theme of my book - that victory is not the most important thing in the end.
Would you do it? If no one would know? If a million dollars were at stake, would you own your mistake? Brian Davis did - and he's sleeping better tonight because of it.
This story, about Brian Davis, is awesome. Brian is a professional golfer who has never won a major tournament. Over the weekend, he was in a final showdown with Jim Furyk when he called himself on a penalty that no one else saw. It underscores the reputation that golf used to have as the sport of gentlemen (or gentle-people - is that a word?). Regardless of recent news of golfers doing bad things, Brian Davis took the honest route. He knew he’d earned the penalty, and he faced it. Took responsibility.
And Jay Busbee, the writer of the news article I read, gives a great quote: “In golf, honesty is more important than victory.” If only more people felt that way about life in general. It's sort of a twist on the theme of my book - that victory is not the most important thing in the end.
Would you do it? If no one would know? If a million dollars were at stake, would you own your mistake? Brian Davis did - and he's sleeping better tonight because of it.
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