In the Zone at the Red Zone Challenge

As legendary golf instructor Charlie King will tell you, one of the best ways to get people to improve their golf-- or their knitting or whittling or ice fishing, for that matter-- is to provide some incentive or motivation.  It's the exact phenomenon that explains why Peter Kessler whipped me in golf all week until we put a small wager on the match and I came roaring back to win.  The fact is, I could be playing for a bottle cap but the mere fact that I'd collect something upon a victory seems to make all the difference.  Sure, I'm flawed psychologically, but at least I'm aware of the flaw. After golf at the most excellent Oconee Course at Reynolds Plantation last week, a handful of ... Full Story
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Courses & Travel
An Even Bigger Easy: The Creek Club

In an era when golf course architects seem to take great pride in their ability to make our game ever more difficult (thanks, Jack!), and to punish us in increasingly cruel and inventive ways for even slightly mis-hit shots, architect Jim Engh has taken the opposite tact.  And golfers should love him for it Full Story

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Lifestyle
The Havana Club at La Quinta: Shave, Smoke, Drink, Like a Man!

I can think of no better or more masculine way of closing out an afternoon following golf than a visit to La Quinta Resort and Club's Havana Club-- a brilliant concept that combines the simple pleasures of a physical service well delivered with the trash-talking cameraderie of a poker game.  After a morning Full Story

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Adventure Travel
Golf Road Warrior Discovers New Way of Lighting Certifresh Cigar

Please don't tell our wives, but the Golf Road Warriors have been known to smoke a few cigars-- daily, that is-- in our adventures in the world's best golf destinations.  But there have been many occasions on which I went to my little leather cigar case in my golf bag to discover a dry stick that was a shad Full Story