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Author Archives: Charles Prokop
The Sand Crab On The Rocks
It was too windy to play golf so I was taking the back way to town, looking to see if the recent rains had raised the river level. I looked down the riverbed as I crossed the bridge, and was … Continue reading
What’s Your Wampeter?
My regular golf buddies used to be guys I knew from work or school. I always had friends in high school and college that played golf, and it was easy to head out to the course after class, or cut … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged Cat's Cradle, golf buddies, granfalloon, karass, Kurt Vonnegut
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Hit It Charlie Short
The November issue of Golf Digest features Bubba Watson’s instructions for “hitting it two clubs longer.” I was particularly intrigued by his comment that his lips were permanently chapped from rubbing them against his shoulder at the top of his backswing. … Continue reading
Posted in daily golf issues
Tagged Bubba Watson, full backswing, Golf Digest, golf swing mechanics, Hank Haney
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Tight Lies And Thin Shots
I was playing golf the week after the British Open several years ago and one of the players in my group said that the Open course looked like a cow pasture. We were playing that day on a well groomed, … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged British Open, course conditions, Hoylake, links golf, tight lies
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Concerto For Pitching Wedge And Bassoon
My major extracurricular activities in high school and college were band and orchestra. I was a fast, but gangly, receiver and would have been seriously broken when hit by the football players at my large Texas high school. (Think Friday … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged Friday Night Lights, golf swing thoughts, Jack Nicklaus, Jamaica Farewell, mental game
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Tee It Waaayyy Forward
I was making my semi-regular tour of the golf sections of my local book stores and found two interesting books. The first was a copy of Jimmy Roberts’ Breaking the Slump. It should make for interesting reading and might even be … Continue reading
Pull That Cart With Pride!
I was eating breakfast and idly watching Morning Drive on the Golf Channel this morning when the subject of pull carts came up. It was the friendly banter before the break, but the theme of the comments was that they’d run … Continue reading
What A Stupid I Am
You golf historians out there will recognize the title of this post as the famous words of Roberto DeVicenzo. To refresh everyone’s memory, DeVicenzo said this after signing an incorrect scorecard that cost him a spot in a playoff with Bob … Continue reading
How To Make Golf More Popular
There’s been a lot of concern expressed recently about a drop in golf’s popularity. Apparently golf is too difficult and takes too long to play, so 12 hole rounds on courses with larger cups and shorter holes will bring ’em … Continue reading
Posted in humor
Tagged golf handicap, larger golf hole, long putters, popularity of golf, the 12 hole golf round
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Channel Your Inner Fozzie Bear
Sam the Eagle acted as the moral guardian of The Muppet Show. He routinely expressed outrage and offense at bad jokes and behavior he thought beneath the dignity of the show’s high (at least to him) standards. The other characters on … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged Fozzie Bear, mental game, Muppet Show, Muppets, Sam the Eagle
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