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I must admit that I was surprised, but not shocked when I heard the news yesterday that Lorena is going to retire.  She has always said she would play for maybe 10 years and then leave the game to start a family.  She just got married and obviously feels that she is ready for that next chapter in her life.  She has accomplished so much in such a short time, and has other business endeavors that have become more of her focus.  This includes an amazing foundation and school for children.  I know she plans to grow these areas.

I understand completely what she is going through because I have just gone through this myself.  Though I was older than Lorena, it is still hard to play and play at the level you demand of yourself when your heart and mind are somewhere else.  While the LPGA will certainly miss her great play, warm demeanor and smile, I am personally very happy for her.  The most rewarding days are ahead of her and I wish her all the best.

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(NBC) – A new phone application allows those with a Blackberry or iPhone to secretly delete their text messages.

Any way you tell the Tiger Woods story, you have to mention the text messages.

Some say that’s how Tiger’s troubles started.

He left too many digital footprints, a mistake a new iPhone app hopes to fix.

It’s called Tiger Text, and it lets the user send text messages that self destruct.

“Once the message is gone, it’s gone,” founder Jeffrey Evans said. ”There’s no record of it. It doesn’t exist anymore.”

If it sounds a little 007, that’s because it is.

The app lets you set a timer for your text message.

One setting makes the text disappear as soon as the other person reads it.

“I mean it is interesting,” one person said. ”I’ve never seen anything like this before, and it is going to allow people to send something they wouldn’t have otherwise.”

And once it’s gone, all that appears on the phone are tiny tiger tracks.

The inventors claim the name has nothing to do with Tiger Woods.

“Tigers are animals that are notoriously hard to track,” Evans said.

“I’m kind of into,” one person said. ”I think it’s something a lot of people would certainly use.”

The inventors said the app is more for the business world and for private conversations that you don’t want to live forever.

“Tiger Text itself is not about you trying to hide things from people and do things that are bad,” Evans said. ”It’s about a need to keep private what is meant to be private.”

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By Its Size I Could Not Guess,
The Awesome Strength It Does Possess.
But Since I Fell Beneath Its Spell,
I’ve Wandered Through The Fires Of Hell.

My Life Has Not Been Quite The Same,
Since I Chose To Play This Stupid Game.
It Rules M y Mind For Hours On End,
A Fortune It Has Made Me Spend.

It Has Made Me Yell, Curse And Cry,
I Hate Myself And Want To Die.
It Promises A Thing Called Par,
If I Can Hit It Straight And Far.

To Master Such A Tiny Ball,
Should Not Be Very Hard At All.
But My Desires The Ball Refuses,
And Does Exactly As It Chooses.

It Hooks And Slices, Dribbles And Dies,
And Even Disappears Before My Eyes.
Often It Will Have A Whim,
To Hit A Tree Or Take A Swim.

With Miles Of Grass On Which To Land,
It Finds A Tiny Patch Of Sand.
Then Has Me Offering Up My Soul,
If Only It Would Find The Hole.

It’s Made Me Whimper Like A Pup,
And Swear That I Will Give It Up.
And Take To Drink To Ease My Sorrow,
But The Ball Knows … I’ll Be Back Tomorrow.

Stand proud you noble swingers of clubs and losers of balls….
A recent study found the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found golfers drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That means, on average, golfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud. Almost feel like a hybrid.

Happy Birthday, Chuck!

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Seems I answer this question a lot..or, is it I am asking this question a lot?

In this environment of high unemployment and failing economy golf industry is not fairing well.  Those in the golf industry, and golf lovers around the world, obviously want to know the answer to this question.  I don’t blame them.  There are a lot of factors working against golf.  What will it take to turn things around and Help Golf survive? The answer is in the grassroots golfer’s hands

Golf is not looked at as a serious contributor to the economy..at least not looked at in a positive way.  In some cases parts of the golf industry are not really helping change that image by staying in their little world of denial.  What has to change in Golf to Help Golf is not going to make the executives at the top of the golf industry food chain very happy.  However, the image of golf being kicked around the gutters of society is not making the golfers of the world very happy either.  Which do you feel has to change in order for golf to survive as we know it.

Where the Help Should Come From

Take the private country clubs for an example.  I am asked all the time by my followers to address what Country Clubs will have to do to survive.  Obviously, many golfers see the same thing as I, Country Clubs play a huge part in Golf’s survival as a viable activity for the masses to enjoy.  Country Clubs keep the heart of golf pumping.

Country Club and Golf Clubs set a benchmark for many golfers to strive to get to so they can better afford to play unlimited golf.  This keeps the driving ranges and golf retails stores in business.  Country Clubs sit in the center of many communities’ economy.  So how goes the Country Club, goes the community around it.

Unfortunately, Country Clubs are not the only area of golf that could do a better job of helping golf survive as we know it today.

Golf equipment and golf travel/hospitality segments of the golf industry could do a better job of keeping golf in reach of the golfing population.  If golfers can’t afford to buy the equipment to play the game and then carry the equipment with them as they travel for business then the mindset of golfers changes quickly to..

Why am I bothering to play golf?

This question is brought to me over and over by the people I meet each day.  Why should they bother playing golf when the dues for their country club membership went up instead of going down: to replace the old set of Golden Bear clubs they got at JC Penny’s is more than a house payment” and then to pay for all of this they are having to work 80 hours a week to cover being doubled billed for carrying their golf clubs with them when they travel for business.

The Equipment, manufactures and travel/hospitality have to rethink their cost structures. No, the solution is not to lay off works or close golf courses..that thinking is not helping golf.  The thinking that has to change, or stop, is golf needing to go back to the days when the lords and nobles where the only people to afford to play golf.  That thinking is futile and that is just not going to happen.

The thinking all golf businesses should be having is to help golf and maybe rethink that elitist attitude to maybe being more of the lords and nobles of today’s golf world taking a pay cut.  I see taking a cut in pay to keep more people playing golf is better than them all not paying anything for golf.

I am sure everyone else has a thought on what would work to get golf out of the gutters and back on high ground.  I would enjoy hearing them all.  Let me know how I can help.

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Do you speak golf?

Do you play for Barkies? Or Arnies? Do you avail yourself of the breakfast ball and love a good game of Bingo, Bango, Bongo?

Have you found yourself dormie, stymied, plugged or in the cabbage?

Have you dubbed it, shrimped it, shanked it, dinked it or duck-hooked it? And do you know the difference? Have you hit a scooter? How about one in the side door?

Are you a sandbagger? A pigeon? A player? A hooker?

Do you know who lovingly called his putter Billy Baroo?

In other words, are you conversant in the dialect of golf? Do you not only play golf but also revel in all of its idiosyncratic, peculiar lingo?

I hope so. It’s the code of the tribe, sometimes the best part of being in the weird golf fraternity. Nothing can assuage the misery of a poor shot like a good, self-deprecating idiom for your idiocy.

Golfers could say, “Oh, that’s a bad shot.” But why, when they can say they chunked it, skulled it or smothered it?

And golf linguistics are not just for your bad shots. In fact, most of the terms deal with making fun of your partners’ shots. Because theirs are never simply in trouble, in a pond or out of bounds. They are in jail, rinsed or Oscar Bravo.

This vernacular is centuries old, passed on and continually abridged and expanded, especially with references that are amazingly relevant to pop culture. There are sayings linked toRush Limbaugh and Nancy Pelosi(think of shots going right or left),Osama Bin Laden (think of all the bunkers on a golf course) and Paris Hilton (think of anything). O.K., many of these references are too risqué to be repeated here, but it makes me feel good that golf — a so-called stodgy game invented five centuries ago — can stay current.

It also proves to me something nongolfers often fail to grasp: old-fashioned golf is at its heart an old-fashioned social exercise.

“Golf lingo developed because the golf course is a place where people get to know each other, and the game is so hard it especially leads to teasing, joking and ragging on each other,” said Randy Voorhees, the author of “The Little Book of Golf Slang.”

“The lingo has persisted because golf is a game you play for a lifetime,” he said. “So parents pass the terms on to their children, or older players use this colorful vernacular around younger players, and it becomes a natural way of speaking on the golf course.”

The first time you hit a ball on the green and someone calls for it to “sit,” does that not perfectly describe what you want the ball to do? If you hit a ball in the water and someone says it is “wet,” does that not forevermore seem like the best portrayal of its position and your disposition?

“A lot of golf terms actually evoke an image of what is happening out there,” Voorhees said. “You can carve, feather or gouge a shot, and once you learn to perform those shots, they are words that exactly describe what you’re trying to do.”

The golf lexicon has not developed by accident. David Normoyle, the assistant director of the United States Golf Association Museum, cited three primary reasons.

“One, golf is played over such a vast, irregular surface, we need a myriad of descriptions for play on a golf course,” he said. “Two, golf is truly a global game and has many local variations and flavors. Lastly, and perhaps more than anything else, golf has had great poets, and they have tried to capture the essence of the game.”

Who knew that having “the shanks” was meant to be literature?

Now if you’re a beginner or a casual player, you may find golfspeak to be another intimidating barrier to feeling comfortable on the course — a verbal version of golf’s code of behavioral etiquettes. But don’t fret.

There are no secret passwords in the pro shop or trick questions posed on the first tee. People are engrossed in their own games. Don’t play slowly or throw your clubs, and no one will care much about your golf vocabulary.

“Keep your ears open; you’ll learn it all as you go,” Voorhees said. “Soon it will flow out of your mouth naturally.”

I would make one suggestion: visit the local municipal golf course. A lot about golf can be learned there in general, but without question, it is where you will hear the richest, most saucy golf phrases.

But please, don’t be a mute out there. You may come up with a new term for our treasured golf glossary.

Speaking of which, I don’t have time to give definitions for every piece of golf slang used in this article. If you really need translations, they won’t be too hard to come by.

But I can’t leave anyone hanging about Billy Baroo, because “Caddyshack” references are sacred in the cult. The great Ted Knight, as Judge Smails, called his lucky putter Billy Baroo. Years later, that commendation held such merit that it became the name of a line of real putters.

If you are new to golf, understanding the Smails character’s role in the American game is pivotal. Watch the movie some Saturday night after a great, or horrible, round. You’ll feel better — and understand the lingo a bit better.

It also may help explain why you’ve seen someone stand on the first tee and pause to announce, “Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, sir, and I never slice.”

Next time, you’ll be able to bet a hundred bucks they slice it into the woods.

In Layman’s Terms

NASSAU A group game with three bets: low score on the front nine, back nine and for the full 18 holes.

BARKIES A bet won for making par after hitting a tree.

ACEY DEUCEY A group betting game in which the low scorer on each hole (ace) wins money from the other three players and the high scorer (deuce) loses money to the other three players.

BINGO, BANGO, BONGO A points game awarding a point to the first player on the green (bingo), a point for being closest to the hole when everyone has reached the green (bango) and a point for being the first in the hole (bongo).