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   Apr 06

Golfers asked to help lung association

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The B.C. Lung Association is encouraging golf lovers province-wide to golf and save this season by investing in a copy of the B.C. Lung Association’s 2012 Golf Privilege Club membership book.

The ultimate in golf savings, the book provides golf lovers with deep discounts and reduced fees at nearly 350 golf courses throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and even Washington. For just $35, you will not only be paying less to play your favourite sport but you’ll be helping the lives of the one in five British Columbians living with lung disease.

“Our membership book saves golfers hundreds of dollars for less than the price of one round of golf. It’s also a great way for golfers to pay less and play more while supporting the lung association’s work to improve lung health in British Columbia,” says Michele Caskey, B.C. Lung Association volunteer director for Grand Forks.

http://www.grandforksgazette.ca/community/144687175.html

 

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   Apr 02

Groups seek input on city golf courses

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A coalition of community groups, labour organizations and neighbourhood activists will appear before city councillors on Tuesday to request public consultations about the possible sale or lease of financially troubled city golf courses.

In October, the city put out an expression of interest to see if anyone wants to purchase or take over the long-term leases of seven city-owned golf courses, including the Canoe Club, Crescent Drive, Harbour View, John Blumberg, Kildonan Park, Tuxedo and Windsor Park golf courses.

The move came several months after city auditors discovered the courses have racked up large debt and suggested Winnipeg sell some of its courses or convert them into parks.

Environmental group Save our Seine has voiced concerns Winnipeg plans to sell these properties without public input. The group circulated a petition, asking to be included in the development process.

Fort Rouge Coun. Jenny Gerbasi said the process has been “terribly mishandled” and Winnipeg should have conducted public consultations before it put out an expression of interest to developers.

“Green space is a long-term asset to our city. It should not be sold for quick cash to operate our community centres or anything else we need money for,” she said.

At last week’s city centre community committee, Gerbasi and Coun. John Orlikow (River Heights) voted in favour of a thorough public consultation process for alternative options for golf courses.

Council’s property and development committee, a more powerful body, will consider the plan at a meeting on Tuesday. As of Friday, 20 groups had registered to appear before the committee.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/groups-seek-input-on-city-golf-courses-139145729.html

 

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   Mar 29

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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LINKS – Golf courses are often referred to as “links,” but, strictly speaking, this term applies only to a course laid out over the natural contours of the bleak, wind-swept land along the sea, as was the original course at St. Andrews. At first glance, the lush golf courses in the U.S. seem to bear little resemblance to their austere Scottish progenitor, but tradition is very important in the game of golf and American clubs have made every effort to be true to their Highland roots. For example, no towel in any golf club’s locker room exceeds 2 square feet in area or 1/20th of an inch in thickness; no light bulb in any washroom is ever of a wattage greater than 25; no radiator in any dressing room achieves a temperature higher than 66 degrees, nor is hot water even warmer than 88 degrees; walls are painted only in years divisible by 16, and no object or mechanism is replaced until the end of the decade in which it first broke or ceased to function; and all facilities for women are faithfully patterned after the original Wee Lassies’ Changing Boothy in a leaky greenskeeper’s hut overlooking the Firth of Fife.

LIP – 1. Perimeter of grass surrounding the hole. 2. Remarks made by fellow golfer when your putt stops there.

LOCAL RULES – A set of regulations that are ignored only by players on one specific course rather than by golfers as a whole.

LOFT – The angle of a clubface and the corresponding steepness of the shot it will produce. Loft angles range from the relatively shallow ones used for long, unobstructed shots (12 degrees for a driver, 20 degrees for a fairway wood, 30 degrees for a 5-iron) to the much steeper ones needed to clear obstacles (47 degrees for a 9 degree-iron, 58 degrees for a sand wedge, 75 degrees for the tip of a golf shoe, and up to 100 degrees for a throwing arm).

 

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   Mar 25

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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Ladies’ Days & Hours – Times set aside by a golf club during which the use of the course is exclusively reserved for women players, who are sometimes barred at other times. The number of women playing golf has increased dramatically in recent years, but as the institution of Ladies’ Days and Hours indicates, their presence on courses is still objectionable to male players who take the game of golf very seriously and resent the sudden intrusion into their hallowed pastime of the lady golfer, whose insistence on actually hitting balls toward the holes interferes with the conduct of business deals, interrupts the recounting of lengthy comic narratives, and impedes the timely exchange of critical information on the recent performance of automobiles and the relative prospects of sports teams.

Ladies’ Tees – Teeing areas placed somewhat closer to the greens to compensate for the fact that although women are as capable as men of playing first-rate golf, they do not, as a rule, hit the ball as far. Other allowances made for women golfers to permit them to hold their own during rounds with male players include giving them, along with their scorecards, a copy of The Wall Street Journal, a booklet of old jokes and a laminated card on which is printed key data on the recent performance of various cars and ball clubs.

Lag – A long putt played conservatively to make sure that the ball ends up near enough to the hole to be sunk with the next stroke.  If this putt is missed, it is referred to as an “aaag.”

Left-handed Golfers – Although golf, with its overwhelming right-handed orientation, penalizes left-handed players more than other sports do, it also provides two significant advantages to “south-grips”: most golfers can’t borrow your spare golf glove and they can’t demonstrate the “right way to swing that club” after you muff your drive.

Legs – A ball is said to have “legs” if it continues to roll a significant distance after landing. If it bounces into the rough and becomes wedged under a rock or in the crook of a tree, it is said to have “claws.” If it runs down a bank and into a water hazard, it has “fins.” If, on a putt, it rings cup without going in, it has “lips.” And if it does all these things on the same hole, it is given “wings” and flung into the underbrush.

Lie -

  1. Where the ball comes to rest after being hit by a golfer.
  2. The number of strokes it took to get it there, as reported by that golfer.

 

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   Mar 21

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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Keeping Score – In general, golfers assign a number exactly one higher than the previous one for each shot they play to arrive at the cumulative total of all the strokes required to complete a given hole. While it has the merit of simplicity, this system does tend to produce discouragingly high numbers, and players who perennially score in the 90s or higher might think about switching to an unconventional numbering system which, while still adhering strictly to the custom of counting each and every stroke, nevertheless provides a more acceptable result. Two excellent candidates are the arithmetic series -2,-1,0,1,2,3,4 etc. and 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4 etc. Also worth considering are binary numbers, which, no matter how large, are always composed of zeros and ones, and Roman numerals, whose simple written form (the key golf numbers 4,5,6,7 and 8 are indicated by IV,V,VI, VII and VIII) permits alteration of the scorecard with the effortless erasure or addition of an “I” or two rather than the complex conversion of, say, a telltale Arabic “9″ into a “5.”

Knickers – Baggy trousers worn by golfers in the 1930s. They were called “plus fours” because they were cut off four inches below the knee, then tucked into long socks. Plus fours have disappeared from golf courses, and the only golfing apparel anything like them that exists today is a much more appealing form of attire, worn by women, known as “minus tens.”

Kolven – A golf-like 17th-century Dutch game played on frozen canals with clubs and balls. A similar game called “chole” was being played in France in the 14th century, and there are other, even earlier traces of the sport. For example, in the modest tomb of King Puttankhamen  I (1350 B.C.?-1345 B.C.?), a set of 14 bronze-shafted clubs were discovered, each one broken in two; and, in eastern Turkey, an ancient Babylonian clay tablet from about 4000 B.C. was unearthed that bears an astonishing resemblance to a scorecard, with the numbers 1 through 18 inscribed in a row and, next to them, scores (a few of them changed several times) that add up to 117 but are followed in the space for a total at the bottom of the column by the number 77.

 

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   Mar 17

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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Jigger – 1. Traditional short pitching iron used to get out of trouble on holes 1 through 18. 2. Traditional short measuring glass used to get into trouble at hole 19.

Junior – A golfer who attributes poor play to the fact that he or she lacks the experience of a mature player.

 

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   Mar 13

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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In the Leather – A phrase which indicates that a putt is close enough to the hole to be conceded. A putter is placed on the green with its head in the cup to determine whether or not the putt in question is even with or below the beginning of the grip, and if it is, it’s a gimme. Many players find this procedure unnecessarily restrictive and generally agree on a policy of making concessions if a putt is “in the local dialing area.”

Instruction – Golf is virtually impossible to learn from a book, and some personalized instruction is absolutely essential, but there are a handful of simple admonitions that every player would do well to commit to memory:

  • Don’t lock your knees.
  • Don’t bend your left arm.
  • Don’t loosen your grip.
  • Don’t pick up your head.
  • Don’t count out loud.
  • Don’t write in ink on your scorecard.

Irons – 1. Penology. Variously shaped pieces of metal by the use of which individuals are subjected to torment. 2. Golf. Variously shaped pieces of metal by the use of which individuals are subjected to torment.

 

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   Mar 06

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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CHIP SHOT – A short, low approach shot that gets a player into position for one or more missed putts.

CLEEK – 1. Old-fashioned chipping iron. 2. Lateral water hazard on the legendary 8th hole (“The Poisoned Lotus”) of the Royal Hong Kong golf course in Fanling.

CLUB WEIGHT – There are three ways to measure the weight of a club: its overall weight, which ranges from about 13 ounces for a driver to just over 16 for a sand wedge; its swing-weight, which is arrived at using a complex calculation of the relationship between the distribution of mass among a club’s components and the length of its shaft; and its “bringweight,” which is an estimate of its apparent heaviness on the 18th fairway on an afternoon in July and ranges between 21 and 46 pounds.

CLUBFACE – The metal or wooden striking surface that is located on the front of clubhead above the sole and between the toe and the heel. There is a specific point on every clubface called the “sweet spot,” which, when it connects with a ball, produces maximum accuracy and power as well as a solid, gratifying feeling of perfect contact. It is difficult to say exactly where the sweet spot is since it varies from club to club, but generally speaking it is in the dead center of the “bland belt,” which is very near the “rotten region,” in the middle of the “lousy area” and surrounded by the “loathsome zone.”

CLUBHEAD COVERS – Wool or leathers “mittens” slipped over the heads of woods to keep them dry. Zip-on coverings that encase the entire club in wetsuit material are also available and permit the eventual reuse of a favorite club flung into a water hazard, assuming that blind rage was tempered with foresight.

 

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   Mar 02

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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CADDY – Individual who carries bags for golfers and assists them in the playing of the course. Ideally, a caddy should possess the eyes of a big-game hunter, the strength of a linebacker, the patience of a diplomat and the memory of a mafia witness.

CALAMITY JANE – Legendary golfer Bobby Jones’ nickname for his “straight-shooting” putter. Few contemporary golfers give their putters nicknames, but those who do usually choose more appropriate sobriquets like “Runaround Sue” and “Unsinkable Molly Brown.”

CASUAL WATER – A temporary accumulation of water. The rules of golf provide that a ball may be moved without penalty from any non-permanent wet area, such as rain puddle. Tears, however, no matter how copious, do not constitute casual water.

 

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   Feb 25

A Golfer’s Dictionary

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BISQUE – An informal handicapping system in which one player allows another to take a “free” stroke, called a “bisque,” at whichever hole he or she chooses. Such a stroke taken without explicit permission from another player is a “tisque-tisque.”

BLIND HOLE – A hole whose green is not visible when an approach shot is made, thereby requiring a player to rely on senses other than sight, such as the unmistakable sound of an unseen golfer shouting after being struck by a ball, the distinct smell of trouble, the metallic taste of fear and the sudden touch of flu that dictates an immediate return to the clubhouse by way of the deep woods.

BODY ENGLISH – Informal term for nervous leaning or twisting movements that players sometimes make, particularly while putting, to “persuade” the ball to go in a desired direction. If the ball fails to do so, these movements are often followed by a series of vulgar gestures and physical expressions of disgust referred to as body Spanish, body French or body Italian.

BOGEY – The number of strokes needed to finish a hole by a golfer of average skill and above-average honesty.

BRASSIE – Traditional name for the 2-wood, whose sole was at one time made of brass. The 3-wood is sometimes referred to as a “spoon,” the 4-wood as a “baffie,” the 5-iron as a “mashie,” the 7-iron as a “mashie-niblick,” and the 9-iron as a “niblick.” Any club wrapped around a tree is a “smashie.” If it has a slippery grip, it is a “bashie.” If it is hurled at a dog, it is a “lassie.” A club that was allegedly used in a hole-in-one is a “fibstick.” If it was a wood, it is a “fablespoon.”

BREAK – 1. The shifting or changing of the direction of a putt caused by the slope or slant of a green. 2. The splitting or shattering of the shaft of a putter caused by the rage or wrath of a player.

BUNKER – A hazard consisting of an area of ground along a fairway or adjacent to a green from which a large amount of soil has been removed and replaced with something designed to trap golfers. If such a hazard occupies more than 2,000 square feet of ground and traps golfers permanently, it is referred to as a “condominium.”

 

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