narrominded
Welcome to the summer and everything that goes along with this
time of year. What the summer has
always meant to me while working at the club was adjusting to the
heat.
Junior camps in the morning
meant all individual lessons were
moved to the afternoon. This
meant anywhere from four to eight
hours outside teaching golf. While
I’m not trying to get any sympathy
as I am fully aware what a great
profession being a club professional, I’m just saying it takes a week
or two to adjust to being outside all
day in the heat of south Louisiana.
For those of you who enjoy
practicing and want to avoid the
95 degree temps with 90 percent of
humidity, I recommend working on
your games later in the day. Shade
is a wonderful thing in the summer,
and late in the day there is plenty
of it around. There is shade in the
morning as well but the morning
dew seems to ramp up the heat index as the sun sucks it up.
Later in the day as the sun goes
down can be a great time to hit a
few balls, chip and putt a bit, then
perhaps walk a few holes. Starting
this routine around 6:30 gives you
plenty of time to get some quality
practice in and hopefully miss the
peak of the heat as the sun dips
behind the trees. In the killing two
birds with one stone area, you’ll
also be burning a fair amount of
calories at a time of day when most
of us are adding them.
Summer is also a time for vacation. I’d like to give a few tips on
traveling to your summer vacations
about what to do with those clubs.
Questions concern whether you
should bring them or not, play or
not, play and rent, or ship them.
First of all, I was never allowed to
bring my clubs on family vacation.
We were a Disney World family as
my kids were growing up and made
four trips to the “Happiest Place
on Earth.” I can vividly remember r