Category Archives: reflections on golf

Tight Lies And Thin Shots

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Charles Prokop

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 →

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Concerto For Pitching Wedge And Bassoon

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Charles Prokop

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 →

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Pull That Cart With Pride!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Charles Prokop

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 →

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Channel Your Inner Fozzie Bear

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Charles Prokop

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 →

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Is It Easy Or Hard To Have Fun?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Charles Prokop

I didn’t break 80 until I was 54 years old. I know how old I was because I saved the card. I’d been playing golf on and off for around 40 years, so my first score in the 70’s was … Continue reading →

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So That’s Why They Do That

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Charles Prokop

There’s an old Andy Griffith routine from way back before his Mayberry and Matlock days. In Football he describes the experience of a hillbilly watching his first football game, trying to figure out the rules and the object of the game … Continue reading →

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