121.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is outsourcing golf course maintenance going to follow outsourcing golf facility management?<\/p>\n
122.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joining a private golf or country club today warrants much more due diligence if you care to protect your investment.<\/p>\n
123.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From all I\u2019ve heard, Barbara Nicklaus should be nominated for Sainthood \u2013 quite a lady!<\/p>\n
124.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Size Matters:\u00a0 Is golf finally going to discover that \u201cMore is NOT<\/em> more\u201d when it comes to designing longer courses.\u00a0 Some estimate that it now costs 50% more to build and maintain a 7,500-yard course than it does a 6,500 yard one.<\/p>\n 125.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bright idea:\u00a0 Santa Cruz\u2019s Pasatiempo Golf Club hires goats to clean out the brush from canyon areas saving huge amounts of time and money, while not putting workers in hazardous conditions.\u00a0 Golf needs more \u201coutside the box\u201d thinking.<\/p>\n 126.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The PGA of America had perfect timing when it sold its Merchandise Show.\u00a0 The affair has been shrinking along with the game ever since.<\/p>\n 127.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Deane Beman is perhaps the most visionary individual in golf administration in the last fifty years.\u00a0 His many innovations set the table for the growth, power, and prosperity that his PGA TOUR successor and subsequent constituents so enjoy, though their power has overwhelmed the sport in America.<\/p>\n 128.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One can learn more about how to swing the golf club by watching the LPGA TOUR than by watching the PGA TOUR.\u00a0 The average person cannot duplicate what the men are able to do, but most can imitate much of what the women do.<\/p>\n 129.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the 90s I told the PGA of America that they should be working less to develop great players and more to develop more players, but they loved creating more scratch competitions for youngsters.\u00a0 Elite golfers do not drive revenue to support the game as they get most of their play and equipment for free.\u00a0 The rest of us buy our clubs and green fees.\u00a0 Now as the golf numbers no longer are growing, they are finally trying to \u201cgrow the game.\u201d<\/p>\n 130.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A sound pre-shot routine should be completed before sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"