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Cigars are a big part of golf culture in my area and I found this video on the making of cigars fascinating:

In T. Woods, a golfer pays his playing partners the agreed bet whenever he hits a tree. However, the bet is off if the ball bounces back to the fairway.

Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.

GolfBuddy Voice GPS

Just like a real caddy, the Golf Buddy Voice gives golfers their distances audibly. The Golf Buddy Voice boasts a 40,000 course capacity, and gives distances to the front, center and back of green. More features:

Automatic Course & Hole Recognition
Shot Distance Measurement
Multi-lingual
Dynamic Green View
Volume Control
Supports multiple Greens

Play better golf with the swing you already have.

The Five Inch Course on sale at Amazon.Com

The Five Inch Course is GolfBlogger’s new ebook, aimed at mid- to high- handicappers who would like to improve their scores, but who lack the time and money to commit to making serious swing changes.

Bobby Jones once said that “competitive golf is played on a five and a half inch course: the space between your ears.” It is with this in mind that The Five Inch Course offers more than a hundred tips for improving your golf score by playing smarter, more strategic golf. By putting just a few of these tips into play,  even weekend hackers can dramatically improve their scores without improving their swings.

For the cover price of a single issue of a golf magazine, The Five Inch Course can have you playing better golf almost immediately.

In 1960, the average golf score was 100. Fifty years later, with all the innovations in clubs, balls and instruction, the average golf score is ... still 100. In fact, only 20 percent of all golfers will ever (honestly) break that mark. However, this doesn’t mean that lower scores are out of reach. The Five Inch Course can get you there.

Photo taken at Green Oaks Golf Course, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Here are a couple of images of Byron Nelson from Life Magazine from 1945:

Turns out there’s a Byron Nelson High School. And they’ve written a very nice biography to explain how the man stands as a role model to the students. Here’s a key paragraph:

This was Byron Nelson. The youngster who sold his family’s garden produce. The kid who loved practicing chipping with his only golf club. The young man who decided to turn pro on a bus between Fort Worth and Texarkana. The club pro who dreamed of setting records in golf and then having a cattle ranch of his own. The gentle champion who had such a strong reputation for goodness and decency and humility and respect for others, that city leaders chose to name a tournament for him. The hero who invested all his talents in making that event a complete success. That is the man whose name now graces the campus of Byron Nelson High School.

Come visit us in person. You’ll see how we’re putting into practice the values that Byron both believed in and lived out in every aspect of his life. As former sports editor of the Dallas Daily News, Felix McKnight once said, I’ve known all of the greats in sports. Byron’s the only one who’s never disappointed me.