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Golf: An Economic Giant Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Bell Bay, Nova Scotia Golf is a huge business around the world. That may come as no surprise when you fork over 30 or 40 bucks for a box of balls or a grand on some new irons. But the numbers are pretty staggering, nonetheless. The enormous impact of the game on the global economy was brought into sharp focus at the just-concluded PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida. The CEOs of the [...] Read More
Selling Golf In Tough Times Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: jameswagner.com There's a paragraph in a New York Times story today that begins "...the economy [is] facing what now seems to be the sharpest downturn since the 1930s". And if you read enough business stories, you'll find a growing number of economists who say we are entering a depression. Depressions are always characterized by deflation at their outset; the prices of things come down, sometimes spiraling down (note the price slashing of [...] Read More
Honest Johan Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: BBC It was a few days before leaving the U.K and I thought I'd hike up the High Street in Guildford one more time, drop into a bookshop and check out the English golf mags. Here in North America, we're under the impression that there are essentially only two golf publications for the amateur: Golf Digest and golf magazine. But the English didn't conquer the world (once upon a time) so [...] Read More
Five Fantastic Golf Locations Wandalust
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Golf attire to face the 2010 summers - eagleparbirdie.com The RFID Weblog
Golf is a gentleman's game and you just can't attend the game wearing your normal summer tee, rugged pair of jeans and sandals. This game is not just about making impression with your technique but also the clothing line you choose. This summers you could choose your golf wear from Oxford Golf, the makers of premium golf clothing who have unveiled its 2010 golf clothing collection. First on the [...] Read More
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on May 22, 2010
One Swing: Two Sexes Eagle Par Birdie
Behind every great professional golfer, you'll usually find a great teacher. Jack Nicklaus had Jack Grout and went back to him at the start of every season for a swing tune-up. And the results weren't too bad! So it was with distinct pleasure that I posed a series of questions recently to Anne Chouinard. Anne Chouinard is Lorie Kane's swing coach and Director of Instruction at the Canadian Golf Academy in [...] Read More
The Swing Coach Part Two Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Anne Chouinard Today, you can listen to the second part of my interview with Anne Chouinard. Anne is Lorie Kane's swing coach on the LPGA Tour and the Director of Instruction at the Canadian Golf Academy. Anne is a former tour player herself and when she was younger, she would augment her tour play with teaching. She learned a lot about teaching from her own swing coach, Chuck Cook, who has instructed a [...] Read More
The Swing Coach Eagle Par Birdie
Coaching can be a very tough business. Coaching professional sports teams is a high-stress, high-reward profession. But longevity in the job is rarely a characteristic of coaching. "What have you done for me lately" is the phrase most often heard in the board rooms from team owners and managers. Last season's championship can mean very little if a team doesn't follow up with a strong defense of their title. And the [...] Read More
Jack Mcclelland to be on The Joe Average Poker Show Internet Poker
Jack Mcclelland, 15 year veteran tournament director for the WSOP, will be our guest on the Joe Average Poker Show. Mcclelland has travelled around the world supervising poker tournaments including stops in Vegas, Atlantic City, Los Angeles, aruba, Austria, and Russia. Discussions will include the growth of tournament poker and Mcclelland's best estimate for the number of entrants in the years WSOP Main Event. The Joe Average Poker Show can [...] Read More
A Little Story About Jack & Marjorie Pretty Things
I don't know what a Snowberry is, but I know that Jack and Marjorie have created a beautiful bag which bears this name. I love that this bag could easily become your fall "go to bag" when it comes to a classy but fun bag that will wear well with jeans, blazer, sheath dresses and much more. I love wearing bags that are perfect for a specific series of looks; [...] Read More
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on May 12, 2010
Let's Talk Golf! Eagle Par Birdie
Welcome to EagleParBirdie.com. This is a golf blog for ALL amateur golfers. And I mean ALL! What this is NOT is yet another golf column on the internet just for guys. This blog is going to be different. It's going to provide women, juniors, and all of us who are over 50 with what we need to play better, more enjoyable golf. It's going to cover different aspects of the recreational [...] Read More
Horses for Courses Eagle Par Birdie
Manuel de la Torre. Courtesy: Golf.com My most recent post on Stack and Tilt elicited a few comments. But the most eloquent came from Ed LeBeau. Ed wrote that Stack and Tilt can be traced back to the teachings of Ernest Jones who learned to play golf and then teach the game with just one leg. It happened to be his left leg and he was a right-handed golfer. So you can [...] Read More
Selling Golf In Tough Times Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: jameswagner.com There's a paragraph in a New York Times story today that begins "...the economy [is] facing what now seems to be the sharpest downturn since the 1930s". And if you read enough business stories, you'll find a growing number of economists who say we are entering a depression. Depressions are always characterized by deflation at their outset; the prices of things come down, sometimes spiraling down (note the price slashing of [...] Read More
Five Fantastic Golf Locations Wandalust
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Golf attire to face the 2010 summers - eagleparbirdie.com The RFID Weblog
Golf is a gentleman's game and you just can't attend the game wearing your normal summer tee, rugged pair of jeans and sandals. This game is not just about making impression with your technique but also the clothing line you choose. This summers you could choose your golf wear from Oxford Golf, the makers of premium golf clothing who have unveiled its 2010 golf clothing collection. First on the [...] Read More
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on May 3, 2010
Golf Swing Aids Part 1 Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Momentus Golf There's one thing that I, you and hundreds of manufacturers around the world have discovered about ourselves. We'll buy anything that might have half a chance of helping us hit the ball farther or straighter. I'm talking about the gimmick, the gizmo, the gadget. Maybe you attach it to your waist; maybe it fits onto the shaft of your club; maybe you wear it on your head. If it's going to make [...] Read More
Golf Swing Aids Part 2 Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: GolfRewind.com Got that Momentus yet? Take a look at yesterday's post, if you're wondering what I'm talking about! Today, we'll continue the conversation about swing aids by checking in with Sandra Post 8 time winner on the LPGA tour and the youngest player to win a major at the age of 20. "There are so many teaching aids on the market. I am approached several times a season with a new invention [...] Read More
Stack and Tilt Latest Comments Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Golf Digest It was just about 2 years ago that I wrote a post called "Stack and Tilt: Fool's Gold?" By now, many know what the Stack and Tilt swing method is. But I am amazed that I still get comments on that one post (and I wrote several more about S&T in the weeks that followed). It took Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer almost a year and a half to produce their [...] Read More
Five Fantastic Golf Locations Wandalust
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Golf attire to face the 2010 summers - eagleparbirdie.com The RFID Weblog
Golf is a gentleman's game and you just can't attend the game wearing your normal summer tee, rugged pair of jeans and sandals. This game is not just about making impression with your technique but also the clothing line you choose. This summers you could choose your golf wear from Oxford Golf, the makers of premium golf clothing who have unveiled its 2010 golf clothing collection. First on the [...] Read More
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on April 24, 2010
Private Membership: Is It Worth It? Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Thornhill Golf and Country club Do you play golf at a public course or are you a member at a private club? Are there advantages to private membership that make the high costs worthwhile? Or are the vast number of public courses the best way to go? Private memberships offer a number of attractive aspects: ongoing fellowship with other members, club championships, good tee times, social functions. These are the usual benefits of [...] Read More
The Mother of Invention Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Thornhill Golf and Country club There's a private club in Toronto that has launched an innovative program. The club's general manager calls it a "win-win" situation. But, first, some background to put this article in context. A corporation called ClubLink exists in Canada whose purpose is to provide memberships in a pool of 36 different high-end private courses in Ontario and Quebec. The company began in 1993 and has grown into the [...] Read More
Private Clubs: An Endangered Species? Eagle Par Birdie
Courtesy: Thornhill Country club, Toronto Think of private golf clubs and you tend to think of parking lots filled with high end automobiles like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus and so on and wealthy members driving past in custom made golf carts. That can be true. But it doesn't mean that every private golf club is rolling in dough because its members are wealthy. Certainly, some private courses are fine financially. But the majority need [...] Read More
Readers Digest: another private equity failure Sox First
Another example of a private equity screw-up. Readers Digest, the media outlet that started in 1922 and made its name publishing condensed novels and edited articles from other magazines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest bone-headed plan is to convert $1.6 billion worth of debt into equity. How feasible is that when the magazine's readership is dying off and young people are refusing to subscribe?That's a big [...] Read More
Golf clubs, country clubs and CEO pay Sox First
The rich, as F Scott Fitzgerald said, are different from you and me.Just how different is revealed in a paper by Florida State University's James Ang, Mississippi State University's Gregory Nagel and Jun Yang from Indiana University.Basically, they find evidence that how much the CEO gets paid depends very much on his social circles. CEOs attend various social functions, they meet up at exclusive golf clubs and country clubs and [...] Read More
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Courtesy: Bell Bay, Nova Scotia Golf is a huge business around the world. That may come as no surprise when you fork over 30 or 40 bucks for a box of balls or a grand on some new irons. But the numbers are pretty staggering, nonetheless. The enormous impact of the game on the global economy was brought into sharp focus at the just-concluded PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida. The CEOs of the [...] Read More
Courtesy: jameswagner.com There's a paragraph in a New York Times story today that begins "...the economy [is] facing what now seems to be the sharpest downturn since the 1930s". And if you read enough business stories, you'll find a growing number of economists who say we are entering a depression. Depressions are always characterized by deflation at their outset; the prices of things come down, sometimes spiraling down (note the price slashing of [...] Read More
Courtesy: BBC It was a few days before leaving the U.K and I thought I'd hike up the High Street in Guildford one more time, drop into a bookshop and check out the English golf mags. Here in North America, we're under the impression that there are essentially only two golf publications for the amateur: Golf Digest and golf magazine. But the English didn't conquer the world (once upon a time) so [...] Read More
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Golf is a gentleman's game and you just can't attend the game wearing your normal summer tee, rugged pair of jeans and sandals. This game is not just about making impression with your technique but also the clothing line you choose. This summers you could choose your golf wear from Oxford Golf, the makers of premium golf clothing who have unveiled its 2010 golf clothing collection. First on the [...] Read More
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