10 Things to Consider Before Joining a Private Golf Club
Have you been thinking of joining a private golf club? Or maybe changing clubs? Being a member of a private club can be tremendously rewarding. You’re part of a community of like-minded people. Everybody on the staff knows your name. You get to make new friends and share all kinds of experiences with the other […]
8 Public Facilities with Premier Golf and Sporting Clubs
During a recent stay at a luxury Rhode Island resort community known as The Preserve, I followed up 18 fun-filled par-three holes by taking aim at a different kind of target at the facility’s 19-station sporting clays course. The Preserve’s owner, Paul Milhailides, told me he intentionally built the clays course like a golf course, […]
Do You Prefer To Play 9 Or 18 Holes?
10 Questions with Billy Horschel
A few weeks after Team USA’s victory at the President’s Cup—Billy Horschel’s first international team event as a professional—I sat down with the seven-time PGA Tour winner to talk about significant courses that he’s played—or hopes to someday—as well as other aspects of life as a professional golfer. If you thought, for example, that TPC […]
10 Holiday Gift Ideas for Golfers
When someone becomes a golfer, as opposed to a person who only occasionally plays golf, it can quickly become an all-consuming interest. Family and friends see the change happen. Such players not only play more golf, they watch more golf, talk about golf more often (like, all the time), and tend to spend more of […]
8 Pieces of Must-Have Cold-Weather Golf Gear
When the mercury plummets in winter months, rounds of golf played north of the 38th parallel are transformed from leisurely affairs into battles waged against the elements. It’s a war that Mother Nature has historically won, but the tides are gradually turning. When equipped with the right cold-weather gear, golfers can trek across the fairways […]
Would You Rather: McIlroy vs. Morikawa
Have You Ever Had A Hole-In-One?
Characters: Golf Statistics Expert Lou Riccio
Whether you realize it or not, Lou Riccio’s statistical studies of golf affect how you play—and how much fun you’re having Looking for an impressive resume, you’d be hard pressed to better that of Lucius (“Lou”) Riccio. The 75-year-old has been Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Transportation, served on a Presidential Commission on […]
What Brand of Golf Ball Do You Play?
