What Golf Road Warriors Want Under the Tree

We suspected the elves were playing the new Callaway Tour I(z) when we saw how long the little guys were off the tee.  The balls are pictured here with a few foursomes of our favorite smokes from Certifresh.

The elves asked us to tell you that Santa never liked your cookies, anyway.

 

 

 

 

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  • Great Waters Not Just For Great Players (Though It Wouldn't Hurt)

    There's at least one moment in everyone's first round at Reynolds Plantation's Great Waters Golf Course where you come off a hole that just played down to a lakeside green and then tee off away from the lake and by the time you get to the next green you're at the lake again and you wonder: did I forget to take my medication this morning?  Such is the nature of Jack Nicklaus's fine work here that it makes use of a collection of coves and inlets and peninsulas in, around, and beside Lake Oconee to route a layout that at ...

  • An Even Bigger Easy: The Creek Club

    In an era when golf course architects seem to take great pride in their ability to make our game ever more difficult (thanks, Jack!), and to punish us in increasingly cruel and inventive ways for even slightly mis-hit shots, architect Jim Engh has taken the opposite tact.  And golfers should love him for it.  I'd give him a hug right now if he was in front of me. Engh has figured out what nobody else in golf seems to understand: that scoring well-- and even going unreprimanded for less than perfect shots-- just makes golf more fun.  Engh's brilliant Creek Club ...

  • In the Zone at the Red Zone Challenge

    As legendary golf instructor Charlie King will tell you, one of the best ways to get people to improve their golf-- or their knitting or whittling or ice fishing, for that matter-- is to provide some incentive or motivation.  It's the exact phenomenon that explains why Peter Kessler whipped me in golf all week until we put a small wager on the match and I came roaring back to win.  The fact is, I could be playing for a bottle cap but the mere fact that I'd collect something upon a victory seems to make all the difference.  Sure, I'm ...

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