One of the great annoyances at the golf courses I play, whether they are private clubs or public facilities, are the clods who leave their sandy footprints on the green. You’ve seen them too -- great big Foot Joy prints leading from the bunker to the hole. Nothing looks worse than a long trail of sandy footprints across the green, especially if you have to putt through them. You don’t have to be Kit Carson to figure out where these careless, inconsiderate goofballs have been walking. If you are guilty of leaving tracks on the green, here’s a tip: After you step out of the bunker, take two seconds to know the sand off the bottoms of your shoes. Bang your wedge against the soles of your shoes once or twice and that will do it. If you see someone making tracks, call them on it. It took me a few months but I finally retrained one of my regular playing partners to knock the sand off his shoes when he exits a bunker. Now he’s a convert and points it out to other offenders. I hope you will do the same.
Hitting range balls while wondering what ever happened to Sandy Lyle.
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- Mr. Fairway
- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.