When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Federer and Nadal will be tough to overcome, but Jack's place usually serves up a fun finish, especially now that Jack has beamed in a par-3 from Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. Feel free to chime in on the LPGA, Champions and NCAA Men's final too.
When you read the accounts of the NCAA Men's Golf, played at 5-man match play after cutting the field to eight teams, it's just unfathomable that the event isn't televised (yet I saw the elimination game of the NCAA Women's Softball on ESPN this morning)Northwestern coach and Luke Donald instructor Pat Goss posted this image from the NCAA Men's Golf Championship's today:
Well-informed sources say these signs were posted last year as well, which means the NCAA pulls these out of storage to ship to the NCAA's. All to preserve the integrity of the "rough."
Good to know the NCAA brings its point-missing ways to golf, too.
Good news as one of the better college golf courses has been spared the ax, reports Club and Resort Business via a New Mexico Golf News report (that I can't locate).
“The Championship Course has been revamping its business model, and anticipates that it will come close to break even next fiscal year. There is no closure or sale at this time,” a University spokesperson, Susan McKinsey, said in response to an inquiry.
McKinsey’s statement followed a meeting of the UNM Board of Regents at which student tuition and fees were increased by 5.5 percent for the 2011-2012 budget year.
With the tuition picture made clearer, the regents were scheduled to meet again at the end of April to finalize details of the university’s budget for the coming year.
Brad Klein fleshes out a few details about how the troubled University of New Mexico Golf Course is over $4 million in the red and the struggles can be attributed to a green fee and maintenance upgrade to compete with local upscale daily fees.
With green fees now set at $20-$39 for UNM students and $52-$70 for others, the course still runs an annual operating deficit of $400,000. The maintenance budget, including upkeep of the school’s on-campus nine-hole North Course, comes to $1.3 million a year. An aging cast-iron irrigation system, balky septic system and antiquated heating and cooling add maintenance “baggage,” Trujeque said.
Thanks to reader Rick for this disappointing report on the recommendation of a University of New Mexico advisory committee to shut down their renowned golf course, which is an astonishing $4.6 million in debt.
Sean Martin, filing a must read for the college-golf-coaches-have-too-much-time-and-money-at-their-disposal files, tells us that UCLA now sports numbers on their uniforms and bags to give the players a sense of "ownership." The coach also has a number.
Freeman is No. 212. Why? The team’s mantra is ‘212 Degrees,’ the temperature at which water boils. Since water cannot boil at 211 degrees, the implication is that one degree – the degree that pushes water to its boiling point – makes a huge difference. It’s an effort to push players to put in that small incremental increase in effort that makes a huge difference.]
Way too cerebrial for me!
Beth Ann Baldry with a strange DQ of a Notre Dame senior golfer for intentionally reporting the wrong scores to the for-profit GolfStat during a tournament round.
Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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