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<\/a>Brice Secord's Convenient Way to Carry a Tee<\/p><\/div>\n
On the first tee I met Brice Secord, whose creativity in a game renowned for its traditional allegiances\u00a0and conservative attitudes, was immediately obvious.\u00a0 His play was so-so (as was mine, let’s be honest), but his fashion sense was clearly\u00a0perfectly in tune with the Portland zeitgeist<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Brice, who’s an apprentice lineman for PGE (one letter away from being in the PGA, as close as any of us can aspire to), carries a tee in each ear.\u00a0 Before he found his calling climbing utility poles, he worked as a piercer in a Portland tattoo parlor, establishing his creative chops in a revered Portland creative arena.\u00a0 Once his ear holes were wide enough for thick\u00a0plugs, but several years working at PGE, where dangling baubles are not encouraged, has reduced them to the perfect dimension to hold a golf tee.<\/p>\n On the day we played, Brice went with the navy blue pegs, but has experimented with other colors, depending on his mood.\u00a0\u00a0 The ear tee adds a new phrase to the vocabulary of\u00a0the links.\u00a0 Someday Brice’s innovation may rank with Gene Sarazen’s discovery of “bounce” in the sand wedge, or Dick Halmstetter’s experiments for Callaway with giant metal drivers, saving forests of persimmon.\u00a0 I expect the Secord approach to tee management to have a lasting influence among Portland’s creative golfers.<\/p>\n