Last week was an exciting one at the North Conway Country Club as it hosted the 118th New Hampshire Amateur Championship.
Summer has finally begun, the days are longer and the weather continues to warm up across the Mount Washington Valley which means more daylight and more opportunities to play golf and enjoy the great outdoors.
Hopefully you had a chance to watch some of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, S.C. Wow! What a great performance by Phil Mickelson at The Ocean Course amidst the most challenging conditions with lots of wind throughout the weekend.
This is a big week in the professional golf world with the PGA Championship being held at The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, S.C. The windy conditions and the length of this golf course will make for a very challenging weekend for the best golfers on the PGA Tour.
By Jim McFadyen
For some reason, this felt like a short winter and the golf courses are open once again!
“I dreamed I had made 17 holes-in-one in a row. On the 18th hole, I lipped the cup. I was madder than hell.” — Ben Hogan, pro golfer
“If you’re not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don’t have the expectations of yourself that you should have.” Hale Irwin, pro golfer
“I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.” Betsy Rawls, pro golfer
“People today ask, ‘Is it legal or illegal,’ we used to ask, ‘Is it right or wrong?’” — Jackie Burke, pro golfer
“My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is another wrinkle.” Tom Watson, pro golfer, U.S. Open
“Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don’t want. Don’t let the game eat you; you eat the game.” — Moe Norman, pro golfer
“The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don’t play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.” Bobby Jones, golfer
“It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years.” — Walter Hagen, pro golfer
“A bad putter is like a bad apple. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally, cleans the head off your driver.” Sam Snead, professional golfer
“Most people who play golf have one big problem, they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you’ve got to sit on your imagination.” Sam Snead, professional golfer
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