The Uncle Dennis Rule

I like to get to the course about 45 minutes before a round of golf, at least make some practice putts, maybe hit a few balls on the range to see how far the slice is going to be straying off the tee box that day. Now, I'm about as ready as I'm going to be. The last thing I needed to do was to start another blog...but here I am, on the first tee, wishing I had a mulligan, but my old friend Rick says that's not the right way to play. I have been playing golf off and on for about 25 years now, mostly off. I wish I could say I've improved a great deal in that time. I've gotten better and learned a lot since the first time I played a round on a municipal course in New Jersey with my best friend, Rick, from high school. He was a much better golfer than myself. I learned about golf etiquette, a few tips about my swing and reading putts, but that day was more about fun than getting into golf. I had not intended on getting hooked. no pun intended. Let me preface this wi...

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. Arnold Palmer Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arnold_palmer_465536 I never thought I would be a golfer. I enjoy all types of sports, but as a kid I grew up playing baseball and soccer. Baseball was my passion. The cardinal sin was messing up your swing by doing something other than baseball, so no wiffle ball with the neighborhood pals, no fooling around with softball, and no golf. While I learned later in life that I probably wouldn't have ruined by swing for hitting a baseball, just about everything can screw up a golf swing. Hitting a round ball with a cylindrical bat was natural to me. No matter how hard it came at me, how much it spun or dropped, I could always seem to get a piece of it, and more often than not, make some solid...