My brother-in-law, Matt Beauchamp, has been down south the past several weeks where he has caddied in two LPGA events and even found some time to hit the links himself. He had the chance to play the PGA West Stadium Course and was kind of enough to share his thoughts and photos of the experience. Please enjoy.
I am pleased to introduce a new series on the blog — A Casual 9 — where I prod smart and important people in the industry with 9 super great questions in hopes their answers and ideas provide value and a new dimension of content to the reader. Like a casual 9 holes of golf, it is intended to be fun and entertaining without taking up too much of your time.
I am stoked to kick it off with a name Calgary knows and loves – Roger Kingkade. Roger spent 10 years on the radio making commutes and workdays much more enjoyable for Calgarians. His recent exit from radio has freed up time to work on his entrepreneurial swagger. Roger is the founder of Offcourse Golf and has a tremendous perspective on business and golf. Please enjoy.
Time for the 4th annual ‘Josh Embarrasses Himself By Trying to Predict Major Winners for the Season’ post. With Masters Week a couple weeks away, I am getting fired up for major championship season and I know you are too.
I proudly predicted 0 out of 4 winners in last year’s predictions, so I am due for a big year this year…
The Springs Country Club is a private golf course located in Rancho Mirage, where we were invited to play by our friend, Sharon, who hangs out there for the winter months. Playing The Springs was one of the highlights of our trip and it was great to be able to play another one of the beautiful golf courses in the area…
After I published my Goals for the 2017 Golf Season, I had several followers ask me to “reveal my hand” and expand on my mental game routine referenced in that post.
I am not an expert in human psychology, but I do take a keen interest in it. Even in the most common social encounters I like to observe behaviours and body language (including my own) because I find it fascinating how our minds work and react.
When it comes to golf I find it even more fascinating and I always take inventory of my thoughts in an effort to correlate them with performance. A few of my own observations:
There’s something about exclusive golf courses that can’t help but intrigue you. It probably stems from our human urge to do what we’re told not to and go where we’re not supposed to. When the opportunity presented itself for my father-in-law, Gary, and I to play at The Vintage Club, these primal urges got their backs scratched a bit…
If free beer, great golf, or anything to do with a private club experience intrigues you, you’ll want to check out this review of Kukui’ula Golf Course located in Kauai, Hawaii…
Seems like each year I start setting my golf goals for the upcoming season earlier and earlier. Although our golf season here in Alberta doesn’t typically start until around April, there are plenty of things that can be done during the winter to get yourself in a position to have a stellar golf season.
The daunting part about a commitment to improve your golf game is that there are no straightforward formulas to do it. You can’t just Google a “couch to scratch” training program…
For our fifth round in Kauai with local friend and blogger, Wayne Halm, we visited the Ocean Course at Hokuala. The course is formerly known as Kauai Lagoons, but was renamed after Timbers Resorts took it over from the Marriott.
The front nine starts out with a very open feel to it over the first several holes, but don’t be fooled, Jack always has a few tricks up his sleeve, and doesn’t let you feel calm for very long. The 76.2 course rating and 142 slope from the back tees back up that claim fairly well…
Our Top 10 Courses of 2015 set the bar extremely high, but 2016 was no slouch. We started and ended the year in Hawaii by visiting Maui in January and Kauai in December. Both islands have spectacular golf and are strongly represented on this list.
Despite what some major publications want you to think, ranking golf courses is always subjective (and sometimes political). After much contemplation, here are my top 10 golf courses played in 2016:
