"And So It Begins"

Welcome to the GolfFlog - the blog for real life golfers about real life golf. I've long been dismayed that mass-market golf, on TV, in magazines, in newspapers, is a poor reflection of golf in the real world:

- Most of us don't play golf at a private country club;

- Most of us don't buy a new set of clubs every season (or more than once a season);

- We don't spend a whole lot on lessons, and sometimes it shows. (Well, OK, most of the time it shows);

- Most of us don't have a USGA handicap, but if we did, we'd be around a 19;

- We have a good notion of the history of this great game, and we know we're lucky to watch history in the making each time The One chooses to play.

We play on public courses, and at the occasional outing, on vacation, or with a CC buddy at a private club.

We buy a new club or bag or shoes once a year or so - but we change irons only a little more often than we change cars.

We're working guys! We play on weekends at the most crowded times on our favorite munis!

This blog will be about THAT golfin life - not the golfin life we read about in those two magazines that most of us get...

I hope you identify with and enjoy the GolfFlog - I'll be logging my thoughts and experiences here, and I'll be flogging some of the conventions of mass-market-media, un-real golf right here, and I hope you'll do the same.

The Harder you hit'em, the straighter they go!


- The GolfFlogger