Category Archives: Winter 2009

Minnesota Winter = Backyard Rinks

This is for anyone living below the Mason-Dixon line in the U.S. or somewhere else in the world without cold weather and in particular snow!  For you Minnesotans who are living in one of those miserable, 70F+ degree-all-the-time places, this will bring many wonderful memories if not tears to your eyes.
Minnesotans long ago determined that they [...]

Daytona 500, Part II

There were four of us who flew down from MN for the Daytona 500 and as in past years we stayed up in Jacksonville.  Friday on the way to the track we stopped in at the TPC at Sawgrass to simply have a look around.  To begin with, I was surprised that we were cordially [...]

The Daytona 500, Part I

Just got back from the “Super Bowl” of stock car racing.  If you follow the sport at all, you know of what I am speaking.  If not, give it a look.  Yes they do “just go fast and turn left” but there is quite a bit more to it once you start paying attention.  Did [...]

2009 Golf Industry Show – a week in the life of an exhibitor

Oh to only have had the Happy Feet booth at the GIS in New Orleans.  Now that guy was busy, mostly with exhibitors.  Standing around will do that.
The show attendance was definitely lower this year and it’s no wonder as New Orleans is typically not as good a draw as Orlando or San Diego, according to [...]

What a Great Industry

I love this industry:  My involvement began when I was very young, hanging out at Par Aide (and dew whipping and cutting the putting green we had in our back yard).  Technically I was working, but I think tolerated might be a better word as I just wanted to play.  Rides on the two wheeler, [...]