http://www.barse.org hit more fairways. make more putts. avoid the hazards. play by the rules. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:17:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year I've kept very careful track of the time I spent volunteering at Maryland State Golf Association events and meetings. Given that we have one main event left (our annual meeting in a couple of weeks) I thought I'd total up my time. Wow. Starting in March I officiated at ... http://www.barse.org/2009/10/board-membership-quantified/ For those of you who think that nothing's being done about pace of play, I refer you to this post. Long live checkpoints! Now if we can only get the system into the US Open, the US Women's Open and the US Senior Open I'd be even happier. http://www.barse.org/2009/08/pace-of-play/ I've been fortunate to learn about two wonderful acts of sportsmanship on the golf course this year. What makes them worth thinking about is that they both happened at the highest levels of amateur golf a month apart. While I'd like to think that this sort of thing happens often, ... http://www.barse.org/2009/07/two-acts-of-sportsmanship/ Over the winter a friend and I were batting around ideas for the cover story of our club's annual golf magazine. Since the club is hosting the diamond jubilee of the Frank Emmet Schoolboy this summer we decided that Mr. Emmet, now gone for more than 25 years, would be ... http://www.barse.org/2009/05/do-you-believe-in-coincidence/ OK, this is one for the books. Caps are on a roll (having dispatched the Pens after TCB with the Rangers) and eveyone on the train home Saturday afternoon was in a great mood. Then these two – father and son, apparently – pushed into the train, which brightened the ... http://www.barse.org/2009/05/swine-flu-symptom-public-dorkiness/ Hockey makes me cry. My eyes well up and I choke back my emotions because after all, who cries at the start (or finish) of a hockey game? It's a hockey game, for Pete's sake. Big guys on skates slamming around with sticks at 20 MPH , crashing into each ... http://www.barse.org/2009/04/anthem/ or, The Islands in Spring Valley, mon. Or 'Summertime in veddy, veddy, upper, upper northwest, dahling', if you prefer. me: pressed for time and feeling like I'd like to be invisible buying my frozen pizza and $12 Pinot. Feel better immediately when I arrive at the express line behind a woman ... http://www.barse.org/2009/03/hooray-beer/ From David Staebler at the USGA: 10. The Rules permit the use of rangefinders (distance measuring devices) during play. 9. You must inform your opponent in match play or fellow competitor in stroke play before you start a new hole with a different ball. 8. Whatever brand and type of ball you use ... http://www.barse.org/2009/02/top-10-golf-rules-myths/ Tech legend has it that a self-confident engineer, when facing an ambitious product manager in a design meeting and realizing that said product manager had specced a product that did everything, cost next to nothing, and needed to be in the market in weeks, said something along the lines of, ... http://www.barse.org/2008/06/fast-good-cheap-pick-any-two-2/ ...is mercifully gone from the lexicon of inebriated on-course golf spectators (not to be confused with fans). But, based on what I heard while watching the spectacular US Open at Torrey Pines for the past two days, that trite belligerence has been replaced by a bellowed 'get in the ... http://www.barse.org/2008/06/you-da-man/